Forst of all, i am an amd guy, i have a vega card, and i would have a ryzen cpu already if amd did not screw me over with fx series, there were supposed to be 10 cores and steamroller but all of it was cancelled and i wanted more performance.But as i have a 5960x now, it would be pointless to get ryzen 1st or 2nd gen ryzen.
And i am getting 3rd gen ryzen, be it TR3 or ryzen itself.
I read 1st post and the poll and i think they are somewhat misleading (especially that forza screen).
As it stands, amd already has a good gaming cpus for like 90% of people, intel gets ahead however if you eliminate the gpu bottleneck so from like 1080Ti forward and 144hz screens it has real advantage, and pretty substantial one, up to 25% or so.
So if you are in the high performance gpu settings (which most people are not even if they have a 2080Ti but for example play at 4k) intel is the way to go.
But the topic paints it as if theyre doomed or something, even if we assume pretty optimistic situation, so AMD can get their 8 core/12core (games dont really care about more than 8 cores and even thats stretching it) at higher clocks, and they get 10% "IPC" gain in gaming situations, they would at best match 9900K.And theres still thing about the memory, intel goes far beyond 4ghz, amd cant do that, and even if they get to 4000MT/s ram, still slower.
On top of that, intel already is realeasing something faster, yea , its gonna be hot.But comet lake 10C is coming, screw the cores, but they will also get bigger L3 cache.And games are all about latency.Intels best get like 35ns, ryzens do 60 at best, theres very low possibility ryzen 3000 with its decoupled IO will get much better.
Reality is, they should still have higher clocks, and lower latencies and faster ram support, and thats a recipe for a fast gaming cpu.
I dont really care, i want more cores because gaming perf for me is going to be the same with either one (i prefer higher resolutions/details than the 144hz+ gaming and i still have 60hz screen).But i really doubt amd is gonna "dominate" intel in gaming.