Is it Intel or AMD?
Which do you prefer, Intel or AMD?
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For most distros and out of the box simple-ness. Intel For anything efficient and feature rich, AMD. At least the newer generation stuff. Most of the specs I drool over now are AMD based. More so with the intel c2xxx issue and other things. But mostly price and features. As a dev type, having more hardware for the same price as a single system has it's perks. |
Since I am frugal computer user and if price is considered. I voted AMD because of that. I am not a gamer on computer.
I got a playstation for that. Most of my gear comes for less than others pay for theirs. Being one who does not look a gift horse in the mouth. I don't consider cpu bias at all then. currently posting on a Code:
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I prefer AMD since they need to stay in business to keep Intel from grossly inflating prices. However, right now all my systems except 1 are Intel, but I'm hopeful that we can start seeing some ryzen laptops when they release the mobile chips.
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AMD have consistently failed to produce anything that even aproaches Intel on any benchmark I have seen. For that reason I'll liklely replace my current FX-8370 desktop with Intel when I have to do so. Unless AMD magically make Ryzen suddenly better than even an i5.
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On installations where Intel's integrated graphics is sufficient (and since I'm not a gamer, that's just about everywhere), then using Intel saves me from having to buy a graphics card. Plus, Intel graphics is well supported in Linux.
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I voted Intel, but I don't really care, I'm not a power user. :)
Presently, I am trying out a Raspberry Pi3 - Broadcom(!) processor, 1GB ram, wifi, runs from a microSD card, but will shortly be able to run from USB disks, still not quite stable by all accounts - a promising substitute if all you want is web browsing, email, music & video playing - about the equivalent of an Atom processor. ;) |
I have no preference.
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My last two Linux only desktops have been AMD based and I have been quite pleased. Although it's clear that AMD hasn't kept up with Intel on single core performance, in practical usage it hasn't been an issue. My current quad core A8 Trinity CPU does an excellent job.
I have had problems with GPUs however. My R7 360 video card wasn't supported for the FOSS driver in Linux Mint 17 and so I had to use the fglrx (Catalyst) driver. This Catalyst driver wasn't supported in LM 18 but after a few kernel updates the FOSS driver was. So now I'm using the excellent Radeon FOSS driver again. AMD video is really like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. If you avoid the bleeding edge hardware you should be OK - although to be honest Nvidia seems to support its hardware better in Linux. Code:
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At the end of the day I am happy to have a FOSS driver that works, although in future it might be amdgpu if they get everything working with older GCN cards. I am staying away from the RX4XX cards right now because I don't want any more hardware problems and I do not need higher end gaming performance. AMD seems more committed to Linux but their drivers are always under heavy development - and that often means problems. |
No preference, I go for the least expensive system that will do the job for me. Turns out most of my systems are Intel, but my desktop is AMD.
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I do see, however, that AMD's goal appeared to be things which ought to give better gaming performance (single-threaded performance and instructions per clock cycle) so they did seem to have failed a little. |
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IMO, they're never going to get Ryzen 1st gen quite on par with Intel for gaming, but my next desktop once I can afford it will be Ryzen. They're GOOD ENOUGH in games that the rest of the stuff for me makes me definitely want it over Intel for the price. And I do desperately need to upgrade. While some parts on my desktop aren't that old, the motherboard is 7 years old now, and the onboard sound died about a year ago. I got a cheap $15 sound card from Fry's, but that definitely makes me think this machine is on it's last leg. |
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