4690K OC to 4.5Ghz still a solid gaming performer?

[beany_bot]

I've been out the loop for a while, and all this Ryzen stuff ha passed me by and confused me a bit.
Just checking that I'm not missing a trick with my i5 4690K. Basically my CPU should be entirely focused for gaming, (thats why I bought the 4690K back in the day)
Sure I do do some video rending and editing, but I have no need to "do it faster". So would rather chase IPC-FPS than core no./render time in that respect. Any of the Ryzen be a big improvement for me?

 

[beany_bot]

I'm rocking an i5 i3570k @4.7, gaming wise it is still fine, for now GPU is still the main contributor of performance to the majority of games.

A newer CPU will be faster but recall the shift from my AMD x6 1100T to i7 3770k being terribly disappointing because actually CPU was not really an issue despite the huge differential in IPC between the two chips, it was always about GPU. Clearly an i5 is probably considered an minimum now but if you have one that clocks well it can carry you for a while yet and games are only starting to use the cores.

Thanks. From a very quick 5 min browse of reviews I suspected as much.
It does look like Ryzen is hitting it out the park for those many core rendering processes thou! Hitting X99 hard.
Now lets see a big IPC and Ghz jump please. (although am I right in thinking that silicone has near reached it's limit in that regard?)