I find myself in an unusual position of having both a AMD and Intel rig, but I can only keep one. I have a 3090 watercooled.
So do I keep the Ryzen 5 5600x or Intel i9 10900kf. I’ve struggled to get decent performance out of the Intel., but seems more stable for VR and the G2.
Opinions?
If it were up to me, I’d keep the 5000 Series Ryzen on the B550 mainboard you have. That’s a solid rig.
I have Ryzen (3700x) but Intel is a way better FOR GAMES
As I’ve said elsewhere my fs performance with the Intel was hopeless but others swear by the 10900
@GIEI: That’s complete nonsense. Intel used to be better at games but it has changed with Ryzen 5000 series. Now the Ryzen CPUs run circles around Intel CPUs in almost any workload, gaming included.
@OP: Keep the Ryzen machine, it’s more powerful and if one day you need more power you can always upgrade to a 5800X, 5900X or even a 5950X. I have the latter and it’s a beast of a CPU (but you need a powerful cooling solution).
Ok, so every comparison you can read on the internet is fake.
Thanks
Any answer you get now may be redundant when (if) the mooted performance improvements arrive.
So I reloaded the Ryzen MB this morning and immediately saw better graphics performance, which is a bit odd giving I was using the same graphics card in both setups.
@GIEI: Sorry, what comparison on earth states that Intel CPUs are faster in games than current gen Ryzen 5000 CPUs? Fact is, AMD makes currently the fastest CPUs, period. This is not my opinion, it’s an objective fact that has been proven by everyone (on- and offline) who reviews CPUs. If you don’t believe me watch the reviews of renowned tech youtubers like Gamers Nexus, LTT, Hardware Unboxed…
I think you should stop looking at benchmarks from 2 years ago 
Ok!!! If you want I can sell you my CPU and MB so I can go back to Intel
I think those AMD guys live on another planet and don’t realize Intel is still faster in gaming especially with an Nvidia card.
The best combo in this sim atm is Intel and Nvidia.
Generally that’s the best combo for gaming.
The 5600x was shown to beat the i9 10900k yet the 10700k beats the 5600x in gaming.
You know AMD is being overhyped to drive sales on their overpriced cpus.
I have been using AMD FX PCs for years.I will never buy a single product ever again from amd and their gpus are a diaster.
Don’t trust the YouTube benchmarks.
@GIEI If you would look at current benchmarks without bias you would easily notice that the AMD CPUs beat Intel’s CPUs in almost every application, including gaming. Calling other people “fanboys” does not change this fact.
Why not though? I don’t think much of all these conspiracy theories that most of the big Youtube gaming hardware channels are somehow in the pocket of AMD.
Because he or she does not want to know anything that does not correspond with his/ her “reality”. Throwing AMD’s ancient FX CPUs into the discussion here only shows that his/ her information is more than outdated. Also nobody needs to get infos exclusively from youtube channels. There are plenty of other sources like magazines, websites…
People slavishly being closed minded on their opinion and outright telling others not to believe YouTubers and other established reviewers (Some of whom are very respected in the industry and have absolutely no bias in their testing methods is almost verging on the sad state of US politics today)
I can only recommend to the op to run your own tests and come to your own decision. The frame rate counters don’t lie.
Here is a good comparison by Hardware Unboxed between the Ryzen 5800X and the Core i7-11700K. It clearly shows that the Ryzen CPU mostly beats the 11700K in games while using less power.
Maybe your data is old?
You have 3700x, it is worse than 3800x. Ryzen 5000 is different league than our Ryzen 3000. I have 3800x and will upgrade it to Ryzen 5000 some day. ATM I have 1080ti so I have no hurry to upgrade my CPU when nvidia RTX 3090 is so costly. 3800x + 1080ti is pretty good combo.
What comes in MSFS intel is pretty good too
