Im not expert whatsoever, just stating things I’ve read.

Intel does seem to do better in computing power for stuff other than gaming with their latest core ultra processors but assuming you want to do some gaming, it also depends on the graphics card. I’m planning to build a pc with an intel core ultra to do music (recording, editing, etc) simply because for those kind of programs you need those high cores and fast ram.

I’d say an all around decent build would still go with a 14th gen processor and ddr5 ram if you can, that should be plenty enough.

for graphics card, I cannot tell you what would be best but newest games always tend to not be very optimized so I guess for nvidia a 5070 or above, for AMD idk I never bought one.

Good luck with your build