amd vs intel for programming and multitasking

[aerius7]

im starting to program and i need a new pc but i dont know which brand is better, intel is way better in gaming but i do not know if thats the case with programming. (Im also in a budget)

I´m planning to buil something around 700$ for that, if you have any suggestions they are welcome. Thanks!

 

[NBSN]

I personally prefer Intel, and it works well for the programs I use such as rendering videos while performing other tasks. You will need to figure out exactly what programs you will be using and see which will work better in those cases.

 

[Shankovich]

Really depends on what your coding. AMD and Intel both pretty much use the same instruction sets. If you're going to do GPU acceleration, CUDA is C based and easy to use, but it's proprietary and lots of professionals don't like that. OpenCl is difficult to learn, but much more powerful in the end, namely because things like GPUs, CPUs, even ASICs are seen as "devices", and you can leverage a lot out of them.

But if you're starting to program, you really don't need a new PC to begin with. Even a PC from 2005 would run anything you could make as a beginner no problem. My advice: save your money until next year if you can, since that's when GPUs will go to 14nm, and AMD Zen will be here which MAY bring down Intel prices and give them some competition again.

My experience to back this up: converted some CFD code into parallel code using OpenCl. It was a bitch, but ran gloriously.