Due to how long its taking for Ryzen to come out , while i don't question their value across the spectrum, i am confused as to the legs it will have coming to market just matching Broadwell architecture.
Everyone knows Intel's consumer level I7's tend to have always lead in gaming performance over the 6-8 core Extreme variants time and time again, so while Intel's ticks have been unimpressive for major upgrades, truth is there will be Coffee Lake come fall with another 15% IPC improvement.
Right now Ryzen at launch has a 14-15% deficit of single threaded performance to Kaby lake, and that will double with Coffee Lake.
I guess i need to see case scenario's where 8 core 16 thread Ryzen will truly outshine your latest i7 in games, considering it will occupy that same $300 range. More threads/cores sounds cool, but i would need it to prove a difference maker. IPC is still very important in a multi threaded environment since the first few threads still handle a lot of the heavy lifting.
...then you gotta consider what difference it makes at 1440-2160p resolution where games less CPU dependent.
PC I i7 3770K @4.5Ghz I 16GB 2400Mhz I GTX 980Ti FTW
Consoles I PS4 Pro I Xbox One S 2TB I Wii U I Xbox 360 S
