How to choose a PC configuration for machine learning?

Question

Computers

Essence.

The time has come when you need to deal with the processing of a little bit of big data. About 20 million lines of features for 60. (Well, that's for now)

There was a question of buying a new PC. It is clear that the trouble with video cards is complete, so I decided to choose a processor for now. The trouble is that the local sysadmin is trying to shove r5 3400g because of "he's in Photoshop rules." I myself am also not strong in the requirements for algorithms and data processing, so I ask for advice. From the point of view of fps, etc., I see the difference between the processors. But I have never encountered processing and training on big data. CV is not required.

Explain to me, if we focus on the processor, and not the video card, is there a strong difference in the same r5 3400g and r7 3700?
And how much RAM? Will 16 be enough or is it still 32?

Answer 1

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-3...
you can never have too much memory
with ssd, you can also try, but the disk is not as important as the processor