I kicked intel to the curb, I'm a Ryzen boi now.

[fatslob-:O]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Not stupid or worthless at all, knowing the CPU raw power can be useful in many cases, if one uses the PC for other tasks besides gaming, or if some devs decide to push gameplay and game world complexity instead of graphics, this for the present, and it can be useful to plan future GPU upgrades too.
Taken alone that test would be pointless, but taken together with higher res tests it helps coming to useful conclusions, for example that if you play at 1080p or 1440p and don't plan a major GPU upgrade soon, you can just buy the cheapest CPU amongst the top 12, but if you plan to upgrade at regular and not too long intervals, one time the CPU and the other the GPU, and you stick to high-end GPUs, it will be better considering the top 5 CPUs. Obviously benchmarks alone won't be enough, knowing the architecture is important too, as an important criterion to decide a CPU upgrade is how soon your favourite devs will start using more efficiently more cores that they currently do. But those benchmarks are useful also for buyers on a budget, as they tell them how cheap they can go without noticing a major performance downgrade, how cheaper they can go with a downgrade that keeps performance still more than acceptable or how many compromises they'll have to accept if they absolutely want to, or must, go even cheaper.

720p gaming benchmarks are dumb and don't have any real world performance correlation. How does one know if they're not hitting some I/O bottleneck or game/graphics code framerate scaling issues ? Trying to eliminate one source of bottleneck like the GPU does not eliminate the other potential sources of bottlenecks in isolation to measuring CPU performance ... 

As for other tasks besides gaming, AMD has a clear advantage in productivity so this is a moot point and mechanical complexity can also do more than just hit the CPU. What if the newly complex game logic hits the GPU most ? 

720p benchmarks might as well be synthetic benchmarks in a sense since that resolution has severe image quality issues according to most gamers ...