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Does AMD really dominate the gaming market? I was still under the impression that AMD is what you buy when you're on a budget and Intel is what you get if you care about gaming performance. I just did a quick search and it looks like most people are still saying single core performance is better on Intel chips?

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That changed with Zen 3 CPUs that shipped out recently. Now AMD has better multicore and single-core performance.

In addition, NVIDIA is the GPU to get for gaming, not AMD. NVIDIA and AMD trade blows in terms of price for performance throughout the product range, but there are no scenarios where the fastest AMD is decidedly faster than the fastest NVIDIA, and there are many scenarios where the NVIDIA is faster than the AMD. The NVIDIA software is also possibly less aggravating than the AMD software (for Windows games, not necessarily Linux games). If you want to video-stream your game, then NVIDIA beats AMD silly.

But for casuals, the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One series, and Xbox Series X all use AMD APUs.

AMD has been dominating the gaming market since the Ryzen 3000 series. The Ryzen 3600X was the gaming chip to beat last year.

Also if you were not playing at 4K or competitive e-sports, you probably wanted an 8-core Ryzen chip for multi-threaded tasks even if it was marginally worse at CS:GO with >200 fps.

single core performance on zen2 competes or beats current generation intel chips, and tends to offer more cores and lower power usage as well.

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