AMD or Intel for game dev (Unity/Visual Studio project builds)?

This kind of makes me sad, but I suppose it answers some questions

 

is that the threadripper?

damn.. so sad. I thought getting a better CPU would solve my problems, LOL.. perhaps not

 

Yes, a 128 core system.

 

Well it did boost from 3.63 GHz to 4.01 GHz.

 

In unity it does not matter much, even on large projects compile times are a couple of seconds.
Unreal engine OTOH where it could be minutes then it’s important

Startup time there is a difference, here’s exactly the same app in Unity.


intel i5-8259U 2.3 ghz (boost 3.8ghz) 4 cores/8 threads (this machine has a faster ssd btw) ~7 seconds
AMD 5 3600 3.6 ghz (no boost) 6 cores/12 threads ~3 seconds

I would go with AMD, dont even think about it

btw I just remembered my intel CPU is downclocked 25% (cause the fan was making too much noise)

 

you are talking about full builds, not development builds, yes of course those are way way longer due to the packing of assets / compilation of shaders etc but thats not your meat and potatos in development time
though 10 minutes for

seems to be excessive (unless you're building it on a calculator )

Perhaps everything aint set up optimally (sticking too much in the resources directory perhaps?)

 

OK I just built my game with Unity, 90+% of the time is compiling shaders, and as you can see it does take advantage of all the cores

 

Task manager - cpu - right click - select "change graph to" - logical processors

 

Shifty if you have a project that you want me to compile on both the AMD & intel I can report back the build times for both systems

 

https://unity.com/releases/2019-3/dots-sample testlevel.unity

same version of unity on each PC 3.19.6

top AMD 5 3600 (underclocked by 5%)
bottom intel i5-8259U (underclocked 25%)

 

yes (also the ryzen 5 3600 had some stuff in the background running perhaps affected the numbers a bit)

 

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

seems AMD have better performance per dollar for single thread. But amd is slower than intel for single thread.

Intel Core i9-10900KF @ 3.70GHz
(85%)
3,168
$463.00*
(10c)

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
(74%)
2,743
$326.99
(8c)

out of topic: curious, why are you still using the old ms edge?

 

The browser? No idea

Actually strange thing happened to me yesterday, I was compiling a c++ console application that I wrote, I just wanted to do some calculations quickly, and windows complained about the generated exe containing a virus, WTF
I'll post a screenshot later but very strange