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I honestly have a hard time taking these numbers in. I don't know if any of those games asks much of the CPU. So the differences in numbers are weird. Could it be that a combination of AMD CPU and GPU work better together?
That said, here are the things to consider for those considering these products:
1) CPU is largely irrelevant for most games. GPU is much more important. Even current low-end desktop CPU's will serve you well if all you do is play games. In fact, this is true for most tasks. All desktop CPU's are fairly good at doing most things well.
2) AMD offers better performance per dollar. Intel offers better performance per clock cycle.
3) Top of the line AMD CPU's should be compared to i5's. AMD gave up on the high-end market a long time ago. They have no products competing with the i7's.
4) i7 is the way to go if you're going to be asking your computer to crunch a lot of numbers. The synthetic benchmark scores speak for themselves.