AMD equipment should be fine, current-gen Ryzen/Threadripper is more than adept at workstation tasks and next-gen Ryzen (named Ryzen 2 and Threadripper 2) will

AMD equipment should be fine, current-gen Ryzen/Threadripper is more than adept at workstation tasks and next-gen Ryzen (named Ryzen 2 and Threadripper 2) will edge out any advantage that Intel's CPUs have.