I think AMD is a great option, and preferred over the others.
For cost relative to performance. I have always bought AMD for my own home builts, thank God. Not a gamer, but this rig with a Ryzen 3200G (integrated graphics, $100 then, not 76: now get Ryzen 5400g for 104)) and 128GB RAM on a MSI b450 Pro mobo easily runs two Bible programs, 8 browsers with multiple tab rows (each for its own general purpose) in Vivaldi and and FF, and hundreds of tabs, plus 2 word pros with multiple documents, with two NVME drives and the rest being Sata SSD's, and can do video editing and more. RAM use does tend to creep up to about 64GB after many days of sleep/walk cycles though.
Thanks be to God, seriously.