[redox99]

i9 13900k or r9 7950x. As far as I remember the compile benchmarks were worse on the 5800x3d than the 5800x.

7950x is more efficient than 13900k, so that's your answer. Idle usage ryzen is often worse than intel though, so pick your poison.

[philliphaydon]

I went Intel 12th gen and I have buyer’s remorse. My next upgrade I’ll go back to AMD. Every 12th gen I’ve touched has little stuttering issues. Last week I was playing around with laptops at the store with 13th gen and they also get random stuttering issues too. A lot of people have said to me they don’t get any issues but going into a store and opening up YouTube with a 4k video and moving the mouse it stops and then continues. The AMD laptops don’t do this at all.

[josephg]

I can't speak to the "best" CPU, but I use a 7950x for rust development work in linux. Its probably overkill - The rust compiler doesn't even feel slow anymore for me on this machine.

Its a fantastic CPU.