Originally Posted by
Love Mountain
They're completely correct. Intel is better for gaming. Ryzen 5 3600 and i5-9600K are around the same price, 200$. But, you get 6 cores/12 Threads with AMD, and only 6 Cores/6 Threads with Intel. For productivity, like video editing, streaming, whatever, AMD will be better. I mostly game with my computer, but I do occasionally do other things. In my opinion you get 90-95% of the Intel performance for gaming plus 130-140% of the performance for other things.You also have to consider that that games aren't really CPU limited anymore. CS:GO will run 400 FPS on newest Intel CPUs, 350 FPS on AMD CPUs. So no functional difference.
Total War is different admittedly, and will benefit from he higher clocks, but I comfortably run Warhammer 2 on Ultra everything including unit sizes. I also play quite a bit of old mods like Roma Surrectum 2 . For reference, I run an i7-4790K, and I still max out all of my games. I will always encourage people to build their own PC, but if you must get a prebuilt, going with an i5 o Ryzen 5 isn't a bad deal. Especially if you can take the 100-150$ saved and put them into a 2070 or 2080.