If you're already in the market for a new CPU and motherboard it should be on the short list. If you're not already in the market this won't make you want

If you're already in the market for a new CPU and motherboard it should be on the short list. If you're not already in the market this won't make you want to upgrade. To be fair, this has been true for about 5 years. I have a 5+ year old i7-3770K and benchmarks have the newest AMD cards hardly beating it in SC perf (although certainly beating in MC, but that's not super important for gaming and is actually a detractor in the case of the ThreadRipper); and the newest Intel chips are like, 30% better (after 5+ years) SC. I feel all of the innovation effort in this space has been power consumption and trying to get solid MC perf (which is proving to be difficult when the cores get to double digits).