CPU Choice. AMD Vs Intel. PPro 2025

[tex_4419]

Anyone have experience with AMD Vs Intel?  My last PC that I built I went with a threadripper 2950X and was dissapointed even though every benchmark said it was supposed to slay Adobe workflow.  Now, as of March 2025, Every metric that I see says the Ryzen 9950x is the best under $1K.  But I'm kinda thinking about going with Intel because they've just worked better in the past.  Times change and I'm willing to listen and learn.
For reference, I mostly use Premiere and media encoder 98% of the time.  My concerns are #1, workflow usability (time line scrubbing etc...) and #2, render time.  Thank you.

[Ann Bens]

Moved discussion to hardware forum.

[Warren Heaton]

Hi @tex_4419 

If the workstation is primarily for video editing, I would lean toward Intel.

If the workstation is primarily for 3d, I would lean toward AMD.

That said, Puget Systems goes with Intel for mobile workstations or H264/HEVC workstations and with AMD for RAW video format workstation when it comes to Premiere Pro.

- Warren