They're generally cheaper than the Intel counterpart with similar performance. They're also significantly more power-efficient right now, mostly because they're

They're generally cheaper than the Intel counterpart with similar performance. They're also significantly more power-efficient right now, mostly because they're one process node ahead of Intel. The single-core performance gets very close to the fastest Intel processors, and you can get a 12 core Ryzen now (and a 16 core later this year) while Intel is at most 8 cores on the mainstream desktop platform. There are differences in specific applications between Intel and AMD, but you'll have to look for individual benchmarks on this.