Allen
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Intel Core i5-7600K vs Core i5-6600K
...Both chips were tested on stock configuration and clock speeds. The Core i5-7600K bested the Skylake chip in all possible ways. The end result was 6.14% faster single-threaded performance and 9.12% faster multi-thread performance. In gaming, the Core i5-7600K was around 4% faster...
Intel's latest 4-core/4-thread gaming CPU is 10 roughly percent faster than the previous model in a CPU benchmark. However, that translates to only 4 percent faster in games (according to the above site).
The point: I expect AMD's Zen CPU to be much faster than the previous AMD model in a CPU benchmark. However, as Intel shows, an improvement in overall CPU instructions per clock or improvement in CPU clock rate does not directly translate to an equal improvement in FPS.
In my experience, in most games I've checked, only about half the CPU improvement shows up in a game (sometimes more sometimes less) -- roughly what the Intel CPU showed.
I still await Zen's advertised 40 percent improvement with "tempered optimism" -- that is, "I'll believe it when I see it" in a game