anyone interested in real benchmarks look at pubg and battlefield games in big mp games. see what the difference is then you will know.
anyone saying its close it can be but in many games there is massive differences. latest forza amd behind by 50 fps ! thats not a joke. thats like going from a 1050 to the latest 2080ti difference. just for being on a modern intel cpu. you do get so much bs in benchmarks you cant say though overall amd is close on intel gaming wise.
So because 3 games you picked arbitrarily have large differences, you "can't say" they are close overall. You do talk some twaddle mate.
Unless you are planning on buying a 2080 Ti, picking a faster GPU will be a better use of cash in
almost every scenario for gaming. Even in games like BF1 at 1080p you'll see better FPS with a 1080 Ti plus Ryzen 5+ than a 1080 plus i7-8700K. At 2160p it's not even close. Consider that a i7-9700K will be £200+ more than the R7 2700X (let alone the R5 2600X) and it's just a stupid proposition for a gaming rig for the vast majority of people. The only two cases I can think of where it makes sense are:
- pairing it with a 2080 Ti;
- wanting it to last a decade whilst hoping that GPUs become competitive again.
If prices become more sensible it might make more sense, and if high end GPUs become competitive again and it starts making sense to upgrade GPUs every 2-3 years like it used to, then it might make more sense.
Note that this is just talking about gaming, there are other scenarios where you need that extra performance and it is worth splashing the cash for it.