The nice thing about those cpus is that your argumentation pretty much does not apply anymore. Yes, Intel is still faster in single thread workloads, but the ga

The nice thing about those cpus is that your argumentation pretty much does not apply anymore. Yes, Intel is still faster in single thread workloads, but the gap is not that big anymore. The benchmarks show the in areas that were historically like you describe, especially gaming, the Ryzen R5 has pretty great results. It doesn't win against the i7-7700K, and it looks not too good in Rocket League, but it has good results in GTA 5. And actually, the difference is less performance-per-clock now, but more that higher Intel cpus, the 7600K and 7700K, have a higher clock to start with.