Oh, this discussion is adorable. I'll start off by actually discouraging you from purchasing any computer components for now. Hardware prices have increased beyond early expectations. Memory prices have doubled, GPU prices have gone shockingly high (with fluctuations). CPU prices, however, are dropping a fair bit. The percentage drop depends on the region. You could consider purchasing new components during the American ''black Friday'' event.I think that's the name at least. Or wait until early 2018 when NVIDIA Volta launches (new NVIDIA GPU series). GPU prices will definitely change during that period of time. However, must you really be interested in a new computer right now, you should find that $700 is more than enough. In fact, you could probably lower that budget a fair bit. As you'd be fine with lower grade hardware.
For those unbiased enough to accept this, Intel has been falling behind lately. Z370 motherboards are an absolute joke with only half of the motherboards released. Their obvious marketing solution to push you in the direction of purchasing new motherboards is outrageous. That is if you want to purchase the new processor. Or rebranding their Xeon series to the i9. However, their single core performance still beats AMD to this day. And is typically favored for their power management and temperature. Don't reply to this with the ''blah blah blah cpu cooler blah blah blah'' nonsense. Official benchmarks show Intel clearly beating AMD in a lot of games. Using equal hardware that is of course.
What a lot of people do wrong is look at every benchmark video and determine which one to buy based on that alone. If (hypothetically speaking) an i7-7700K scores 109FPS in Overatch , and the Ryzen 1700X scored 112 FPS, you really shouldn't care too much about which to buy if the price is about equal. Because you're not gonna see a huge difference.
To conclude: Stop debating about which is better than the other. They're both great companies who make fantastic processors for different focus groups.
You two are adorable. The ancient discussion of Red vs Blue. Red already lost in the Red vs Green war this year. To argue on whether AMD or Intel is better is childish. If you want to determine who is better you can't ignore what depends on that answer. Don't take any offense in this, as you'd be considered a fragile snowflake by many. Outside of benchmarking, we're talking about product availability (CPU), price to performance, motherboard availability, what hardware each processor is paired with, and the BIOS version on each motherboard. For example, Ryzen performance is influenced by RAM. Specifically how much MHZ the module(s) carry. Ryzen technology has improved single core performance on AMD chips but greatly improved it for multi-thread/core performance (I'm aware of the difference). Ryzen currently exceeds Intel in a lot of multi-core dependent applications. In other words: Ryzen is preferred for applications that are better optimized for multi-core performance. Intel is still a competitor in this though. In terms of price to performance for high-end processors (above average cores/threads), Ryzen beats Intel.
For those unbiased enough to accept this, Intel has been falling behind lately. Z370 motherboards are an absolute joke with only half of the motherboards released. Their obvious marketing solution to push you in the direction of purchasing new motherboards is outrageous. That is if you want to purchase the new processor. Or rebranding their Xeon series to the i9. However, their single core performance still beats AMD to this day. And is typically favored for their power management and temperature. Don't reply to this with the ''blah blah blah cpu cooler blah blah blah'' nonsense. Official benchmarks show Intel clearly beating AMD in a lot of games. Using equal hardware that is of course.
What a lot of people do wrong is look at every benchmark video and determine which one to buy based on that alone. If (hypothetically speaking) an i7-7700K scores 109FPS in Overatch , and the Ryzen 1700X scored 112 FPS, you really shouldn't care too much about which to buy if the price is about equal. Because you're not gonna see a huge difference.
To conclude: Stop debating about which is better than the other. They're both great companies who make fantastic processors for different focus groups.
