Is this better than the other one?
This one is 200 dollars more.
What is the one we’re comparing it to?
Whatever it is, go for a 9060 xt or 9070 / 9070 xt. You probably can find one of these cheaper and they perform better than the RX 6800.
You will probably be tacking another $350 onto that price for a used rx6800. so let me give you a heads up on that card, I had a 6800xt. It is a really good card and cranks out frames, but when it comes to raytracing it very Mid at best. At this point I can no longer recomend it for that reason unless you can find one for loke $200 wich I highly doubt. Moving forward a lot of games are gonna require raytracing and upscaling. For roughly the same price you should look at the 9060xt 16GB it will perform much better.
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The other build I had posted
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The new 9000 series for AMD. They’re pretty much all the same. as long as it’s 16 GB and you like the aesthetics buy it. If you spend more money, you’re only paying for the looks.
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I cannot find the other build. Do you like the intel CPUs? You can go 9800x3d on AMD, Intel processors don’t have a lot of L3 cache, which the x3d amd CPUs have, it helps with gaming. Consider 1440p monitors too!
Otherwise, a 9060 xt is a great card as @Viraco suggested. Everything else looks solid, if you change out the CPU, consider different ram that has EXPO and not XMP. CL30 and 6000 DDR5 is perfect, keep up the good work!
The main reason I’m going with Intel is because it’s half off so I don’t want to switch to amd and the other build was a rx6800 and i5 14900k
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Just some overall considerations for you. When it comes to choosing whether to go AMD or Intel, at this point AMD’s strength is gaming. If your primary use case is playing games, then getting a CPU with 3D V-Cache will help immensely. We’re talking about CPUs like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D or 9800X3D. They’re considerably faster at gaming than Intel CPUs. Another positive for AMD is the longevity of their platforms. Socket AM4 had 3 new architectures of CPU available on it starting with the launch of Ryzen in 2017, and Socket AM5 first became available in 2022 and has a lot of life left in it.
Intel’s main strength at this point is productivity workloads. This includes video editing, 3D rendering for CAD, working with large archived files regularly. Granted you can still play games with a 14900K and it’ll still be a great experience, but it’d be better on AMD. The other massive point against Intel right now is the short length of life on new releases for each CPU socket; 14900K is the fastest and highest-end CPU that has ever been produced for LGA 1700, and no new CPUs will ever come out for that socket - Intel has moved on to LGA 1851. So, if you’re going Intel, then an Ultra 9 285K will be a better choice than a 14900K - although we don’t know if there will be any future releases on LGA 1851 and Intel may or may not even make a second generation of CPUs for that socket.
All of this talk about CPUs only matters in gaming if you’re going to buy a GPU that can take advantage of the CPU’s power, and so far, all of the CPUs mentioned (14900K, 7800X3D, 9800X3D) will be left sitting, twiddling their thumbs, unused and wondering when the GPU will catch up with them if you pair them with a midrange GPU. The CPU-to-GPU power ratio in these scenarios is extremely unbalanced. I hesitate to use the word “bottleneck” because that only applies if you’d upgrade the faster part and gain no performance. But if you’re looking at spending $350 on your CPU and another $350-400 on your GPU in order to get a 14900K and RX 9060 XT 16GB, you’d get a lot more gaming performance out of a 9700X paired with an RX 9070 for around the same overall price. Now granted, if you’re going to do heavy productivity workloads, then it makes sense you’d go heavy on CPU power. But your earlier posts mentioned that you were only going with a 14900K because it’s half price - and that makes me feel as though you’re seeking price-to-performance for gaming.