My old 4790k finally died, and I need to replace both the CPU & MB. I was wondering if there would be any conflict in having an AMD CPU and an Nvidia GPU.

I want to use Bazzite on it. I’m running the same distro on my main rig and I’m very happy with it.

Any suggestions?

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    2 months ago

    There is basically 1 reason to go Intel cpu: quicksync video encoding. Amd’s is fine but intel’s is the gold standard.

    Otherwise definitely go amd, it rocks Nvidia perfectly.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      171·
      2 months ago

      With AMD supporting their sockets for long periods of time, there’s -1 reasons to buy Intel.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        2 months ago

        Basically.

        I like the E and p cores, mostly because I used to do a lot of core architecture for supercomputer chips and this was one of my ideas I wanted to implement, fully heterogenous cores with Linux support for scheduling.

        But no, there’s no reason to pick Intel, I only got it because it was cheap, and I don’t use it for gaming.

    • lengau@midwest.social
      5·
      2 months ago

      I don’t have a good comparison for this since my Intel CPUs are from 2014 or earlier, but I was thoroughly impressed with how well my new AMD laptop did video encoding (compared to the only-as-expected bumps in performance otherwise). Do you have examples of how much better QuickSync is than VCN?

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        So VCN has caught up some, but QS is still faster, generally has better support and better codecs before VCN. Also has combinations, vainfo gives me something like 20 encoders on intel, 8 on amd, mostly stuff like 444 for each variant of hevc, etc. Also my 7600xt was more picky with which settings it would take, the intel block seems fairly comfortable with more.

        My Xe has AV1 encode (at ludicrous speeds, I get 30x sometimes, it changed my flow entirely, I stream av1 only now), it’s had hevc well earlier than amd, and overall it’s usually a good bit faster (an intel igpu will usually encode faster than an amd dgpu).

        Also quality has been reviewed to be better, feel free to google that, it’s apparently pretty marginal to human observers.

        But like I said, the difference is nowhere like it was, AMD is catching up, software is coming together so vaapi covers most cases without complaint.

        There’s no reason to consider the difference between them unless encoding is your primary focus, and you’re trying to use very modern codecs.