I have finally ditched Nvidia and I have nothing but praise for my AMD gpu. Now im in market for new CPU and I kinda want to do same with Intel, since I was on intel my whole life.

At the moment im looking at AMD Ryzen 9 7900 and i5 13600k (if i decide to go with intel) i5 is 70-80euros cheaper in my country.

Will there be any differance betwen those two on linux? What are your experiences with AMD cpus?

Thanks

  • Ocelot@lemmies.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    CPU brand (as in AMD/Intel) makes little if any difference in linux, stark contrast to Nvidia/AMD GPU. There was a period of time where some of the intel CPU “efficiency cores” were not properly scheduled in the kernel but I think that’s a lot better now as long as you use a relatively new kernel. There are different power/frequency management flags you can pass to the boot params based on intel/amd but that probably makes more of a difference if you’re on battery: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ryzen

    I think there used to be some limitation in using resizeable BAR with an intel CPU and AMD GPU, but that hasn’t been an issue for a while.

    I have a 5950x with a 6900xt in my linux box and have had no complaints.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    My experience with my Ryzen 7900x has been no problems. The motherboard (ASRock PG Riptide B650E) had some issues on first boot that just required a BIOS update to fix. But I’ve had no problems dualbooting Windows and MX Linux on my system. With the caveat that you must use a cutting-edge distro with a 6.x kernel or better for proper hardware support on latest gen stuff.

    CPU’s are pretty agnostic this gen. Both Intel and AMD have comparable performance. AMD a little better in games, Intel a little better in productivity- but only by a few percent. AMD wins in power efficiency by quite a bit too, with the downside of requiring a DDR5 early-adopter tax for AM5 making the buy in a little more expensive. So it’s really a wash no matter who you choose.

  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    The 7900 is significantly better than the 13600 in multi-core performance. In single-core performance they’re fairly comparable. If you only care about single-core, you can also consider dropping down to the Ryzen 7700, which is basically the same but with fewer cores.

  • LinuxSBC@lemm.ee
    5·
    10 months ago

    Luckily, pretty much any modern x86 CPU works about as well as any other. I’ve had a Ryzen CPU for about three years and an Intel CPU before that, and I notice no differences (apart from obviously the faster CPU being faster).

  • yenguardian@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    10 months ago

    There’s not any significant difference when it comes to Linux compatibility, I’ve had entirely fine experiences with both.

    • biscuits@lemmy.sdfeu.org
      5·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, but you have compared top-of-the-line Ryzen model vs. Intel’s high-medium tier. That’s not gonna really help.

      • seshat@lemmy.963.pmEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        At the moment im looking at AMD Ryzen 9 7900 and i5 13600k (if i decide to go with intel) i5 is 70-80euros cheaper in my country.

        Is what he want to buy , not me.