Few months ago I switched from i7 to Ryzen 2700X. Honestly, I don't know what would have to happen so that I would switch back to Intel :)
In my developer workflows that include quite a lot of browser tabs, a bunch of Docker containers running, occasional Go or Docker build I don't get any of the CPUs at 100% often. Only when I do cross compilation to a multiple architectures I do use 6-9 CPUs and even then my machine is totally usable and I can't even feel that in the background lots of cores are at full utilisation.
What really counts is the amount of CPUs available, I don't really care about their maximum frequency. Comments about gaming are valid but I think instead of buying Intel just go with a better GPU and you will win there as well.
In my developer workflows that include quite a lot of browser tabs, a bunch of Docker containers running, occasional Go or Docker build I don't get any of the CPUs at 100% often. Only when I do cross compilation to a multiple architectures I do use 6-9 CPUs and even then my machine is totally usable and I can't even feel that in the background lots of cores are at full utilisation.
What really counts is the amount of CPUs available, I don't really care about their maximum frequency. Comments about gaming are valid but I think instead of buying Intel just go with a better GPU and you will win there as well.