AMD performance/drives

[sebastien calvignac]

Hi, recently i was looking around to build myself a gaming rig and found that AMD had very good price for performance so i was wondering why wasn't everyone going for AMD. So i looked around and found people arguing that it is more complicated to manage AMD drivers, AMD cpu with same clockspeed and number of cores would run slower than Intel, i also heard that Intel is the only choice for rendering, AMDs run hot...

 

Is all this true ? Personally i want to build a $900 gaming rig so the rendering part might not affect me but isnt rendering part of the amazing things PCs are meant to be able to do ?!

 

 

NOTE: Excuse my noobness im new to this pc building stuff.

[Semper]

By drives, would you mean drivers?

If so, yes, AMD drivers are generally less stable than Nvidia.

 

 

Their processors also do run hotter, and consume more power, however, it's not by a margin that will make a significant impact in the life of the CPU.

Watch this:

 

AMD has good price/performance with both their GPU's and CPU's, but Intel has them easily outclassed in raw power on the processor side, and nvidia has them outclassed in power consumption, especially in the gaming scene. You can't really compare AMD and Intel's clock speeds, they don't really correlate to each other the way you thin they would.

 

Rendering in the aspect I think you're addressing is in video editing, and yes, PC's are capable of rendering, but there's a completely different level for render farms/power users who focus on video editing.

[Deletive]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.96 @ OutletPC)

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 87.0 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($107.24 @ Amazon)

Memory: Team Zeus Yellow 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($67.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.49 @ Amazon)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($259.99 @ Amazon)

Case: Cooler Master K280 ATX Mid Tower Case ($41.99 @ Micro Center)

Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)

Total: $886.63

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-02 01:53 EDT-0400

AMD use to really be good but it's hard for me to reccomend someone to use a 3 year old chipset without any upgrade path. If it's a budget build G3258 would be plenty for 95% of games. and then It would be low end i5+h97 > 6300/8350 mainly because it's just better performance...

AMD gpu's are different. most of the time I'll reccomend an AMD gpu if it's under GTX 970's MSRP. Mainly because AMD had a good price/performance ratio.

[sebastien calvignac]

By drives, would you mean drivers?

If so, yes, AMD drivers are generally less stable than Nvidia.

 

Their processors also do run hotter, and consume more power, however, it's not by a margin that will make a significant impact in the life of the CPU.

 

AMD has good price/performance with both their GPU's and CPU's, but Intel has them easily outclassed in raw power on the processor side, and nvidia has them outclassed in power consumption, especially in the gaming scene. You can't really compare AMD and Intel's clock speeds, they don't really correlate to each other the way you thin they would.

 

Rendering in the aspect I think you're addressing is in video editing, and yes, PC's are capable of rendering, but there's a completely different level for render farms/power users who focus on video editing.

 

Yes i did mean drivers.

 

Thanks alot i think i have got a clear picture now.

[Semper]

Yes i did mean drivers.

 

Thanks alot i think i have got a clear picture now.

Always glad to help! and by all means, if you have further questions, don't be afraid to ask, that's what these forums are for!

[sebastien calvignac]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.96 @ OutletPC)

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 87.0 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($107.24 @ Amazon)

Memory: Team Zeus Yellow 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($67.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.49 @ Amazon)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($259.99 @ Amazon)

Case: Cooler Master K280 ATX Mid Tower Case ($41.99 @ Micro Center)

Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)

Total: $886.63

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-02 01:53 EDT-0400

AMD use to really be good but it's hard for me to reccomend someone to use a 3 year old chipset without any upgrade path. If it's a budget build G3258 would be plenty for 95% of games. and then It would be low end i5+h97 > 6300/8350 mainly because it's just better performance...

AMD gpu's are different. most of the time I'll reccomend an AMD gpu if it's under GTX 970's MSRP. Mainly because AMD had a good price/performance ratio.

Thank for posting those parts, thats almost exactly what i was looking for though i would like 16GB of RAM. I would also like to know how upgradable is the build ?

[Deletive]

Thank for posting those parts, thats almost exactly what i was looking for though i would like 16GB of RAM. I would also like to know how upgradable is the build ?

It'll be good for a few years. you can just take out the graphics card and just throw a new one in whenever. it'll last you quite a while.