AMD won the cheap gaming build contest in 2018. Intel, with their shitty integrated GPUs have floundered their chance more so when they had such a great head start beginning since they released i3.
This is especially more relevant as GPU prices are going skyward and n33t gamer like me are paying a price for the absurd cost of GPU because of miners.
Wasn't intel going to release a intel cpu with amd graphics? i wonder what ever happened with that.
Daniel Hughes
i love the insane amounts of shit i can do with my 1600. Encode video with ffmpeg while gaming with no real performance drop? hell yeah, 12 threads are great.
If I'm a fairly casual user that never tinkered with OC before, is 1600X worth it or can I just settle for 1600?
Joseph Taylor
They’ve been released, but they are only for mobile/integrated builds. E.g. "Intel NUC Kit NUC8i7HNK - Hades Canyon" = Intel Core i7-8705G, 4x 3.10GHz + AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL
Brody Perry
get a 1600. got mine overclocked to 3.9ghz stable on a wraith spire cooler (the fucking stock cooler) with no thermal throttling. getting more then 4ghz on 1st gen ryzen is very, very hard.
Aaron Ross
speaking of amd my 1080 is dying and the only thing i can afford to replace it while i flog it off to some miner is a vega 56 how much of a sidegrade is that from a 2ghz 1080?
Liam Watson
8700k smokes ryzen though..
Id love to switch to AMD but they simply arent as good. Maybe the next thing they release will destroy the 8700k as a value and performance proposition but im not holding my breath.
Jack Price
You can get a powercolor Vega 56 red devil on Newegg for 530$
Caleb Morales
I have ryzen above intel limitations.
Josiah Stewart
You should buy 2600(X) if anything. If gaymen and you want to get as many FPS as possible, buy the X – otherwise, buy without X.
Wyatt Adams
Avoid Vega like plague. It's a fucking fire hazard with how much power it draws. AMD doesn't have efficient high end GPUs.
Jordan Williams
i am really sick of nvidia though $1200aud for a fucking 1080 ti looking at a Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX VEGA 56 GAMING OC for $550usd shipped in your $
Kayden Torres
to be honest intel still wins the budget builds. intel hd is enough for me and ryzen+vega is 2 times more expensive
Austin Rogers
OP is talking about low budget. Your 8700k quest dies as soon you have to get an external videocard.
Jack Cooper
get the X, it's efficient to the max and scores really high too.
switched from 1700 to 2600X for muh games for almost the same price and don't regret nothing, have over a 100 points more single core speed on cpu-z bench
Nolan Foster
i guess, AMDs are better OC compatible compared to Intel chips
William Torres
>intel hd is enough yeah! it's enough to play movie and stuff, but with APUs you can literally play PUBG.
Luke Cook
>8700k smokes ryzen though.. Yeah, it's the undisputed king of 480p, 720p and 1080p gaming. Pity it's not good at anything else.
Isaiah Ward
I've been a loyal AMD evangelist since the late 90ies but WHO THE FUCK ENCODES VIDEOS WHILE GAEYMEN?
Sebastian Anderson
pubg is a cancer
id stick my intel hd in cs go
Xavier Price
was not commenting on the game, per se but the quality of graphics rendering it can support.
Daniel Wilson
Only ran it at 30fps which is useless on pc and the game is dead
Julian Wright
Maybe it's the other way around - i.e., playing a game to pass the time while you're waiting for your encode to finish.
The mining hype is over. I recently bought a 480 8G for 215 €.
Ryzen is great, I run both my systems on it. I'm still working on the OC, this system matches my 5820K in singlethread while archieving 40-50 % more multithreaded performance. The other system runs a 1700, which matches a 5960X in rendering performance at 100 W under full load. All of that for 250 €, if you buy it used even cheaper.
I'm waiting the day that Apple dumps Intel for AMD. Not Applefag, but I understand the damage that could make to Intel Mindshare and reputation.
Andrew Moore
>absurd cost of GPU because of miner
Not sure if you've checked the butcoin market lately, but it's in the toliet.
No one is buying GPUs for mining and they are actually on shelves now if you go look around the stores etc.
Gaymers are still willing to shell out $500+ for a GPU so the manufacturers are still listing them as such. Give it a couple more months and a lot of these mining GPUs will flood eBay at 1/3rd the cost of brand new and the manufacturers will be forced to lower their prices.
Kevin Adams
Already happening. "Used GTX 1070 - 84 sold, 893 Available" if you check the listings.
Thomas Allen
Apple is already dumping intel. theyre going to start making their own CPUs again
Robert Hill
>the meme of apple doing their own cpus I don't understand where that meme began. You can't replace x86 with ARM without a important performance loss.