AMD or Intel for the programmer and (sometimes) the gamer?

Question

Iron

Good afternoon.
I have been using Intel all my life, but my acquaintances, who saw my style of work, began to convince me that AMD would be more suitable for me because of the better work with multitasking. However, others, seeing that I sometimes play games, convinced that intel is the best solution. My style is the following:

2 browsers are always open, in the first 100 tabs, in the second 50. Photoshop, phpstorm, vs code, word\excel\onenote\outlook, all sorts of little things like ssh client, sourcetree, github desctop, docker, steam, sketchup and so on are open . Those. almost everything that can be run is always running. It’s easier for me, because one hour I’m working on one project, the next I’m working on another, the third I’m designing my house in sketchup, and so on. I'm too lazy to open everything again, to remember where I left off. Plus, in the evenings, I need to play for an hour. Of course, without closing anything from the software. Fortunately, 32GB of RAM is more than enough. A laptop with a core i7 6700HQ more than copes, although sometimes there are friezes, for example, if you open phpstorm, which I have not opened for 2 hours, or abruptly switch from it to photoshop.

I was given a core i5-11400F processor. And so I decided to build a PC and switch to work on it. However, I've always wanted to try AMD Ryzen. What do you think, with my style is it better to look towards AMD or stay on Intel, since almost everything suits? Or will there be a crazy increase in speed on AMD when switching from software to software?

Answer 1

AMD or Intel for the programmer and (sometimes) the gamer?

Don't care.
Everyone is measured by frequency numbers and parrots in synthetic tests, but all the same, the performance between these subjects is more subjective, if you do not take into account specific models or specific prices when buying.
PS

in the first 100 tabs, in the second 50

Are you guided by this? 100 tabs in theory can certainly be seen on an ultra-widescreen monitor, but looking for the right one (yes, there is now a tab search, but still) looks unrealistic. When the number of open tabs approaches these thresholds, I usually choose "close all tabs left/right" and enjoy the free RAM to my heart's content

Answer 2

sometimes there are friezes, for example, if you open phpstorm, which I have not opened for 2 hours, or abruptly switch from it to photoshop

Take a good look at your swap.
The processor is deep purple on switching active tasks. He already has constant context changes many thousands of times per second. Because even system processes are running more than there are cores.

Answer 3

Intel, for optimization and less problems

Answer 4

2 browsers are always open, in the first 100 tabs, in the second 50. Photoshop, phpstorm, vs code, word\excel\onenote\outlook, all sorts of little things like ssh client, sourcetree, github desctop, docker, steam, sketchup and so on are open .

Isn't everything fucked up?
It seems that you don’t have to think about the processor, but about 64+ gigabytes of RAM and the corresponding processor, i9 level or threadripper.
Well, that's how it seems to me.
And if you compare i5 and similar r5 - there will be no big difference.

Answer 5

Intel has always been and probably always will be 10-15% more expensive than AMD. So in the segment of cheap CPUs, AMD is preferable.
Intel has always been and probably always will have such top-end models that AMD does not have, and if you are ready to pay twice for an extra 10% performance, then Intel is yours. You also need to understand that many developers of resource-intensive applications are guided by Intel, this crap will also work for AMD, but not so fast.

2 browsers are always open, in the first 100 tabs, in the second 50.

I can't describe it in a way that doesn't offend you. But I think that you simply do not know that every self-respecting browser has such a thing as bookmarks. Well, as already mentioned, the bowser does not need a processor as much as memory