and if you wanna go by strictly gaming performance, the much cheaper i5's still beat the $1000+ i7's in games, Higher Thread Count doesnt mean more performance in applications that only use 3 or 4 threads.
Yeah agreed gaming isn't worth paying the extra amount for extra cores or hyperthreads, the performance is a wash with a few exceptions.
But Ryzen was leaked/hyped as beating the i5s for gaming and competing with top of the line i7s for synthetic benchmarks and transcoding, while it seems to fail on gaming and focused on the latter, which is disappointing to me and many others.
