Graphics card options in current climate

[Ellay]

I've always stuck with Intel/Nvidia, is AMD/Radeon more of an option these days to you?
Also thank you for the detailed response back.

[MiRai]

I've always stuck with Intel/Nvidia, is AMD/Radeon more of an option these days to you?

For now, and as long as the budget allows for it, I'd still stick with nVidia when it comes to GPUs because they offer the best performance.

However, AMD is offering really good multi-threaded performance for much less money than Intel, and, if the rumors are true, AMD is about to, at the very least, catch up to Intel in terms of single-threaded performance, if not overtake them entirely with their 7nm chips in early 2019, while Intel continues to milk their almost 3 year-old 14nm process.

To be fair, if you're going to spend top dollar, then Intel is still going to give you the best performance available in the 8C-16C range, but it's not a consumer friendly price:performance ratio (neither is nVidia right now, though). For example, in the area of 8C/16T chips, the i9-9900K will provide you 20-25% more performance, in limited situations, over a 2700X, but the 9900K costs $570 and the 2700X costs $330. So, you're paying 73% more money for, at best, 25% more horsepower (mostly in single-threaded performance).