 In April of last year AMD went from always a generation or three behind to blindsiding Intel with their shockingly competitive first-gen Ryzen processors based on their all-new Zen architecture fast forward a year and Second-gen Ryzen with Zen plus has been around for a few months now with no response from the blue team yet But in spite of all of this among many enthusiasts, there's still this attitude that persists that goes well If you're not poor people, then you should just get Intel So we decided to challenge that perception and we've got some interesting findings to share with you today After we tell you about glass wire glass wire is a firewall that displays your PC and Android devices incoming and outgoing network connections in Real time use offer code Linus and get 25% off glass wire 2.0 through the link below We know that some of you are just gonna skip to the conclusion anyway, so we're gonna make your life easier The short answer is yes AMD is a viable alternative to Intel, but the long answer has a few Butts in it now initially we had wanted to do an in-depth exploration into things like cache hierarchies and IMC peculiarities plus, you know, did you knows like infinity fabric connecting the dies Inside of Ryzen running at half of the memory clock But I mean, let's face it if you guys cared about that kind of stuff. You'd be watching gamers Nexus So we're gonna focus on the results frames per second in games Render times in professional applications and a side dish of power consumption and storage Before we even get there though. We need to talk about price When we built up and priced out our two competing test benches It became obvious why some people see AMD as the the poor man's choice between Intel's higher CPU price and Lack of a decent included cooler on their k-series chips our AMD platform was over $60 cheaper Finally you guys probably noticed that we're running at different memory speeds Intel's IMC actually does tend to handle high frequency kits better than AMD's but their spec is Actually more conservative and we're leaving overclocking out of this comparison today So this is bone stock apples versus officially supported apples first up Then is our gaming benchmarks in a huge surprise to only the small group of AMD fanboys who insist on remaining Willfully ignorant for some reason in the overwhelming majority of cases Intel's 8700 K defeats the Ryzen 7 2700 X and in some cases like in GTA 5 by a Substantial margin. I mean I'm talking 20 to 30 percent greater performance depending on the resolution not 4k result really stands out I mean that is a resolution that should be GPU bound on pretty much any Modern processor if our recent video about system bottlenecks is anything to go by With that in mind you can put down your pitchforks Hashtag AMD red team because we are going to point out that not once did we encounter a situation where our gaming experience at the same graphical settings of course went from playable on the 8700 K to unplayable on Ryzen it just doesn't change that the 8700 K is Better for gaming full stop and that's even before you get into anomalies like CS go For the record in our testing enabling gaming mode via AMD's rise and master software software actually dropped the FPS across the board with like two exceptions and Requires a restart in between modes, so we're not huge fans of it Our Ryzen 7 2700 X did win in some of the synthetic gaming benchmarks though Thanks to its two extra course which doesn't indicate anything about real games But does foreshadow our productivity results out of the 11 tests we ran AMD's offering outright 1 9 sometimes putting significant distance between itself and the blue team I mean 7-zip was 50% faster which it should be noted does affect aspects of your system's performance Beyond just unzipping the files you download from the internet Asus real bench encoding was 32% faster while multi-threaded Cinebench was 28% faster I mean Intel did remind AMD who the single threaded boss was by beating it by 15% in single-threaded Cinebench But that was its only win with our last result the real bench image editing test almost as close as the results of the last scrapyard wars So basically a tie depending on who you ask, but there's more to life than CPU performance Let's take a look at some of the quality of life differences One thing that we noticed was that game load times were affected when we moved between platforms Even with the exact same drive we found a variance of up to 15% each way with Intel on average ending up about 5% faster than AMD and Like the differences in gaming benchmarks This isn't something that you would immediately notice in a in a Pepsi challenge taste test, but it is there Power consumption was also about 10 watts higher at idle and 20 watts higher under load on the AMD platform Finally we wanted to touch on the accelerated storage options that each platform features because we really feel that this is an excellent way To get better than hard drive performance while not giving up on capacity Now we did a more in-depth piece on this a little while ago, but in summary Intel has Optane caching Which we have seen work wonders on game load times and then from our testing AMD's store Mi is more cumbersome to use with some unpleasant limitations Though the big winner if you watch that video, which you probably should was actually a third-party software called primo cash So there you have it AMD is a less expensive solution compared to Intel and it mostly loses in gaming So you know what the trolling from the gaming crowd about AMD being a second-rate solution Matt does have some merit to it unfortunately, but the easy comeback is well It's great that your machine games faster, but I've got real work to do And if that is actually true of you then AMD is a great choice I mean really the only thing that could disqualify either of them at this point is platform stability and Ryzen has matured a lot since its initial launch to the point where as long as you don't need store Am I the final answer comes down to what your mix is and as usual? It depends are you a 60% productivity person who games on the side go Ryzen and don't look back You saved a buck, but you still got a great system. What's wrong with that? Meanwhile are you the gamer who throws together the occasional headshot compilation video? 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