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> If you're a home user (gamer, programmer), is there any reason to buy Intel today? There's definitely not much. I believe absolute peak single-core performan

> If you're a home user (gamer, programmer), is there any reason to buy Intel today? There's definitely not much. I believe absolute peak single-core performance can still be slightly higher on Intel which is important for gaming, but maybe the last few AMD chips also killed that. And there are also some tools that are not well optimized or don't yet fully support AMD yet. For example: https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/2034 https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/2034 This year's release of Zen 3 looks very promising. Hopefully RAM manufacturers wake up and we also get a bunch more ECC options that aren't so overpriced and slow.

MrStonedOne 7y ago
> There's definitely not much. I believe absolute peak single-core performance can still be slightly higher on Intel https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html It's still weird to see amd anywhere near the top of this list, a few years ago the first few screenfulls were intel.
- pedrocr 7y ago
  >>but maybe the last few AMD chips also killed that. It's definitely quite close but PassMark just shows that it's a tie and it's not necessarily representative of game workloads. It all depends on how much overclocking headroom there is. The enthusiasts for this kind of thing will throw great cooling at these chips and get the best out of them. I wouldn't be surprised if the advantage AMD now has in fabrication meant it also won there though.