[SOLVED] Looking for a final verdict on ryzen vs intel for machine learning

[hrshovon]

hello all,
I want to make a multipurpose rig(ML, gaming and content creation). Now for various hardware acceleration, intel was my choice(i5 8400). I live in japan and in amazon it costs 29000 jpy. Then I stumbled across ryzen 5 2600 which costs 19000jpy and comes with a cooler. So for doing ML( both cpu based scikit learn things and gpu based DL things), gaming and video editing, which one should I buy? I have read many forum threads but all of them are sort of confusing. So far the upper hand for intel is I think its avx2 instruction and faster numpy scipy releases and for amd the price to performance ratio and core count. So please help me with this.
Thanks in advance.

 

[dudeman509]

Ryzen provides more threads/cores for the price. Sounds like it would handle what you want to throw at it better, especially with video editing mentioned.

Intel provides slightly faster single-threaded speed. Most python stuff is single-threaded unless you program multiple iterations/threads into it.

Most other machine learning stuff that I've used leans on the GPU (lots of CUDA cores) rather than CPU.