Just a blanket reply to replies; I wish I could find more developer specific benchmarks, the best I can find are around Javascript performance. There the GHz-co

Just a blanket reply to replies; I wish I could find more developer specific benchmarks, the best I can find are around Javascript performance. There the GHz-comparable Intel chips are around 20% faster in common tasks than AMD. That is perceptually faster, and significantly faster in activities like builds. I've read a lot of discussions showing that many multi thread tasks have a single core element so it's ultimately faster unless the work really scales across cores. More cores are important, but the i7-8700 uses 65W, a single thread is faster than AMD and it has six cores / 12 threads. To get close performance but with 8 cores / 16 threads I'd have to get the 2700X, which is more expensive, plus a video card, which is much more wattage and in order to not get a throwaway video card much more expensive. There are also benchmarks that show AM4 has storage performance issues between 10 - 30%, which could affect complex workflows involving builds and containers. Still, I'm within the return period and trying to find a way to justify AMD, since my work is increasingly about containers. It's just such a huge timesink.