Hey guys, OK, Iam a bit confused on the fact or fiction in reguards to using an AMD CPU PC! I have read enough to know that Oculus recomends the i5 4590 or better. BUT, I have an AMD FX8350 cpu ready to install and am buying a Radeon 480x at the end of the month. As far as I can read benchmark tests do say that the FX8350 is better even if slightly than the i5. So what I need to know is WHY! cant I use this setup? Iam I wrong for being an AMD guy? I have used AMD from 2000 til now? I dont really see anyone saying that they are using an AMD cpu but tons of people asking? In this economy,,,, Iam will not spend 1500 plus for an Intel setup when what I have is just fine if not better? IT's like being forced into Windows 10? I should have the say so in not wanting it but being tricked into having it seems ok?? The argument to me is like saying the PS4 is better than the Xbox One?? Does it matter? Not trying to start a war here just dont understand why I should have to ditch my PC to be forced to spend money I dont have just to use an Oculus? I dont want to buy a Vive BUT!! guess what? I just might do so because its only 200 more out of pocket! I dont want to but feel like I have to? Sorry guys! just really frustrated here!! Soooooo is there anyone who is actually running an AMD setup?? If does it lag? Does it work ok? PLease shed the light here if I am totally stupid and wrong here? Thanks and again sorry for the rant!
Before you jump on the performance benchmarks, another thing you need to look at is what the CPU supports in terms of features. Just because it can match some performance doesn't mean it has the feature set the other CPU has either. Hyper threading is a feature no AMD product supports for example. One feature Oculus says you have to have is the SSE 4.1. AMD does support it, but not in all their CPUs. In this case, the AMD CPU in question does so in this case, the CPU will work just fine 🙂
Right now, Intel is the better product until Zen releases. Even if Zen doesn't meant Intel in the higher end, it's a big enough change in how they are doing CPUs and performance update that it'll bring AMD back into the customer market that it was actually falling away from.
Yes, Intel cost more compare to the AMD product, but as of right now before Zen, the product AMD is marketing is subpar at best. For performance reasons, that extra 35% you are paying is worth getting because of the reasons that AMD cpus were falling fast over the years. It was a struggle for AMD fans as well because they were almost force to upgrade each time a new CPU was release to even keep up. This made the value as a whole less.
I have higher hope that Zen going to change things around. If every thing goes well, I am going to start bring AMD back into my shop to sell. I love AMD. They are like the underdog that was turning things around and pushing everyone to do and be better than they were. Problem now is that AMD has slip a bit and lagging behind now. It all started in the Core Two Duo days and it hasn't been much fix from then.
No, nothing wrong with being an AMD guy. I buy AMD GPUs. I even own the AMD Fury X card and I haven't had much issue with it yet. I love to push more AMD products, but they have to be GOOD products that can match what people are spending their hard earn money on. That's one of my selling points in my shop. Last year I had to stop selling AMD products because it always seem there was one problem after the next with the motherboard or the CPU going bad (yes, the CPU went bad - I haven't seen in that a long time).
I have high hope for Zen. I really hope it's everything we're looking for. Hell, from the leak benchmarks, it looks promising as the next gen CPU that will force Intel to show their hands while bring up the quality of a computer up for the customer end.
AMD developer horse power is quite now compared to nvidia. Even if amd usually have a better hardware design, they are never able to make it efficient on pc. Their driver are a mess that always cause us more trouble and often without a solution at the end :unamused:
They are the hardware on consoles because cheaper and we can do better than PC thanks to a thinner software layer (microsoft and sony do the job of amd)
If you do pc, stick to nvidia for the gpu first and only rule !
For the cpu, i can't help you, for games it is probably fine. If you work and compile a game, prefer intel o)
Can't speak for AMD CPU's, but I've got a reference-model R9 290X GPU and it's been more than good enough for every VR game I've played so far (although I have yet to try Project Cars or Elite: Dangerous, which I understand are basically the Crysis of VR games right now)
It's hard being the voice of reason when you're surrounded by unreasonable people.
While I like AMD... at this moment, with the current state of their CPUs, it is better to go with Intel. Hopefully that will change after Zen comes out, but until then, we won't know for sure.
When talking about GPUs, on the other hand, AMD is fine and used by a number of people. It is just the CPU side where they are currently sucking.
I current have a AMD 7970 GFX card that is "unsupported and not recommend" however for most games I finding it ok, its complete fine in Lucky tale, most of the short VR movie games (apollo 11, oculus deamdeck etc) Elite Dangerous you have to turn some effects off but it ok. The one game I cant play is Adirft, it judders quite badly, so far that the only game I would say or call unplayable, but still runs. (CPU i7 4770K)
