Comment by dantillberg

When considering the switch from Intel to AMD, don't be fooled by comparing clock speeds! Intel has been ahead of AMD in the performance-per-clock game for a long time, and while some of these benchmarks look more promising than my disappointing experience (buying Magny Cours, and later upgrading to Interlagos), less-expensive (and lower TDP) Intel CPUs in many of these benchmarks still come out ahead of Ryzen. The tests where the Ryzen does shine generally seem to involve parallel workloads, but bear in mind that most of the stuff you wait for your computer to do are still bottlenecked by a single thread.