I bought the Ryzen 1700 with a discrete RX4xx card (cheapest one that would comfortable drive two 2560x1440 displays) because the Ryzen 1700 + GPU was about hal

I bought the Ryzen 1700 with a discrete RX4xx card (cheapest one that would comfortable drive two 2560x1440 displays) because the Ryzen 1700 + GPU was about half what the 8 core/16 thread Intel offering at the time would have been. Intel has boosted core counts in response but the Ryzen is still better on a $/perf for my needs.