I am with the other member; calling 10 percent much much better is hyperbole.
And were any of those results you linked in a Linux distro? Since that is what you will be playing in, only those results are relevant.
And great job defending Intel's honor, in a thread that is pointing out how shamelessly sleazy they are being....again. Each time they get murked by AMD, they start these shenanigans. But here you are to tell us how your edge case scenario somehow lessens the sleaziness? Honestly, I have no idea where you are going with this, so that is just a guess. Are you defending their latest nonsense, just some of it, or just being the contrarian? Because whatever it is, it has not altered my negative opinion of Intel at the moment, over how low they will go. They could beat Hermes Conrad in a Limbo contest at this point.
Finally one of most interesting questions.
Yes, there is basically no difference between Linux and Windows at least in most cases, and most games. There are games that perform worse on Linux, regardless of GPU brand, and there are some cases where games are performing BETTER under Linux than on Windows. That is the only benefit of Nvidia proprietary GPU drivers. They are optimizing them, so here are effects.
Its funny, that one can take out something out of context, during the discussion, and draw a picture out of it. You missed the post in which I explicitly said that Intel has no competition in lower end CPUs, and Mobile ones, because in those brackets AMD cannot compete with Intel? And what about them? Doesn't Intel have a point in saying that in some use cases they are still relevant?
I was all for AMD. I planned on bying AM4 with Ryzen 5 3600. Until I saw benchmarks from Overwatch, and compared the TCO of the platform compared to Intel, for my specific use case.
The head to head benchmarks don't support your statement though. Both head to head benchmarks posted in this thread show Ryzen CPUs performing better than intel CPUs at fps/MHz. We don't have the exact CPUs in question in head to head benchmarks, but what we do have shows that a lower clocked intel CPU (like an 8400 or 9400F) would have a hard time outperforming to any significant degree even the lowest Ryzen 3000 CPU. Only way I could see this not being true is if there's a bug in the game right now that effects only Ryzen 3000 CPUs with 6 cores.
You seem to be coming to this conclusion by taking 2 different gameplay videos from 2 completely different sessions, not even on the same map, and then trying to compare performance. There's so little control and so much room for error there, this is not how to do it. Again, there are head to head benchmarks provided that show Ryzen CPUs doing better MHz for MHz against intel CPUs. The Intel CPUs need a significant clock speed advantage in order to have a higher frame rate.
BTW, from your comparison of different videos you posted, the 2700x would seem to have a 28% performance lead over a 3600x. Does anyone believe this is accurate when the 3600x is the better gaming CPU?
You assume that I do not play Overwatch currently. And that I do not know how it behaves. For your information, I do play this game, everyday, on an Nvidia GPU. I know how this game behaves. The variation between maps in average Framerate is 3 FPS.
I think you haven't watched the films correctly. Compare the FPS from 2.9 GHz/4.1 GHz with all core boost at 3.9 GHz Core i5 9400F 6C/6T CPU, that achieves 152 FPS in Overwatch 1080p Epic settings, and compare this to 3.8 GHz/4.4 GHz, 6C/12T CPU that achieves 140 FPS average in the same game. What was the comparison of performance/Mhz again in this particular use case?
BlizzardWorld map in Overwatch is one of the most demanding, in which you see the lowest framerate, apart from Horizon Lunar Colony(No idea why), and probably, newest map in the pool: Busan. BlizzardWorld is tested in few of those films, and is explicitly apparent in testing of Epic Settings in 9400F/GTX 1660 Ti.
And lastly. You may find it shocking, for your view of the world. In this particular game, 6C/6T Intel CPU is faster than 8C/16T from AMD.