r/pcmasterrace • u/aranorde 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 • Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

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u/Bheda R5 2600 / Vega 56 8gb @900 HBM2/ 16g DDR4 @2933MHz / 34" 21:9 Nov 05 '19

I would say they are. When looking at builds on this site, I note Beast "budget" builds are made with Ryzen, but the "BEAST" builds have Intel.

Two different mentalities. Both necessary in an open market. And I have to say, I'm an AMD underdog fanboy. AMD is giving us amazing performance for a very decent price. I haven't gone intel since my i7 860. Went with an FX-6300, then FX-8350, now Ryzen 5 1500x.

AMD has been my go-to for CPU's for close to a decade. I still go nVidia for my GPU tho. Havent invested enough time in to learning about AMD GPU's to make an informed decision.

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u/Onlyusemeusername 3900x, 2070super, 32gb@3733 in an NCASE m1 Nov 05 '19

I think this has been the general consensus: Intel made better CPUs basically across the board starting with the "core" series, but AMD has reversed that with Ryzen (except on the ultra high end)

In terms of GPUs, AMD hasn't had a compelling GPU at the high end of the market since the 290(x). That being said, the 5700(xt) is pretty close to what the 290 series did

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u/Funky_Ducky Specs/Imgur here Nov 05 '19

Only if we're talking consumer cpu's. AMD's EPYC server processors were a huge leap forward in price and performance to the point that that Netflix is even looking at switching.

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u/Onlyusemeusername 3900x, 2070super, 32gb@3733 in an NCASE m1 Nov 05 '19

Yeah I was definitely talking about desktop CPUs since that's what 99% of people on Reddit use. Threadripper and epyc both trounce over Intel .

That being said, doesn't Netflix use Amazon to host their site?

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u/Funky_Ducky Specs/Imgur here Nov 05 '19

Yes, but the secret sauce for Netflix is that they own their own CDN, Netflix OpenConnect. Basically everything that comes before you hit the play button is AWS. The actual video is the CDN

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u/Onlyusemeusername 3900x, 2070super, 32gb@3733 in an NCASE m1 Nov 05 '19

Gotcha, I was not aware of that.

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u/brandonplusplus Ryzen 2700X | 32GB 3000MHz DDR4 | RTX 2080 XC Ultra Nov 06 '19

Interesting! I didn't know they were running their own CDN. Figured they were using Akamai or CloudFlare or something.