Comment by mmanfrin

Mildly off topic but still on topic: Last night I was looking at user benchmarks for the Ryzen 7 vs the newer i7s and it looked like the i7s were beating the R7s in almost every practical category. I thought the R7 was supposed to be the 'bigger performance' sort of chip, but it can't seem to beat the i7, which hasn't really had a big performance boost in 5 years. What's going on? Is it that software testing the chips has not been updated to take advantage of the fancy new technology in the R7? Or is Intel just so far ahead that the R7 is a catch-up?