I have never had any love for AMD processors in my laptops. However, AMD's Rome, Naples and Milan chipsets are probably going to knock Intel out of the server chip market when they are released (late 2020 or early 2021) with one chip equal to the processing power of 2 Intel chips.
AMD has always had a better price to performance ratio. If you can't stand knowing your game could have 4% more frames per second, then pay the premium to get Intel. Just know you're paying way more than 4% more to get those extra indestinguishable frames. Intel recently has been chepening out on their parts because they had such a nice lead on AMD, like the TIM between the chip and the heat spreader. People were getting weird temperature spikes unless they took a risk to de-lid the chip and reapply a better solution. AMD solders their heat spreaders on and that's considered ideal. Since Intel has been dragging their feet and AMD has really put the pressure on Intel, they've started to solder their chips too. In an almost desperate attempt to save face, they're using some sketchy advertising tactics to preserve the illusion of top of the line. In reality, they stuck with 14nm fabrication so long, had a slew of issues with 10nm, meanwhile AMD will be shipping 7nm fabrication chips in less than a month. With a smaller fab process, you get less power consumption and some higher clocks. The 3700X processor looks like a beast at only 65 watts. No need to a $400 custom cooling kit for that! Even their top of the line 16c chip being announced today is 105 watts, compared to some of Intels 165 watt components.
Having said all that, I love the competition between Intel and AMD. I feel that Intel gouges their customers when they know they can get away with it, and they get complacent. When it bites them in the rear they get all defensive like an overly attached girlfriend. It's so fun to watch.
One last important note. It's widely considered a better move to buy a better price/performance PC and upgrade incrementally than to spend loads of money on a pc and have it stick around for over 5 years. AMD has been really good at allowing their newest chips to be slotted in even their older generation motherboards. Intel not at all. If you bought a third gen AMD and a 4xx or 5xx motherboard, in two years you might be able to just pop the chip out and put in a new one and you're off to the races again. Hope this helps.
Wait till after July 7th. The new AMD CPUs look impressive, but we need to see what 3rd party reviews say about it.
The ryzen series of CPUs so far has been really good, and far cheaper than the same class Intel.
For exaple the 16core CPU that AMD just announced is 750 dollars. The closest one to that would be a 1000 or 1200 dollar Intel CPU. But even then the AMD one looked more powerful.
Ignore anyone that says the AMD CPUs will cost more money over the years for power usage. Spread over 5 years the average cost is about 50 bucks more for their older CPUs. If you are saving 250+ dollars or more over an intel cpu, than you are still ahead.
If you go AMD, you could always get a good 5xx series motherboard now and a smaller CPU that does fine for gaming, and then later upgrade to a much larger CPU because it will use the same socket and with the 5XX it will take everything from a 6core cpu all the way upto the 16 core thats just been announced.
Main thing is to wait till see what the 3rd party reviewers say about the new AMD CPUs and motherboards.
The AMD computer market is large, one of the reasons the cost is lower than intel, there is a larger range of, off brand computer parts for AMD, some AMD computer build's, parts can be hard to find at a good price or only one company that makes A high end upgrade for it. like a RAM kit for a older motherboard like a 32 GB kit with only 2 ram sticks.
