Ryzen's not that much better, it's slower in gaming that Intel's 5 year old Skylake architecture. Both vendors are equally pathetic - AMD for not being able to beat 14nm Skylake garbage in gaming, and Intel for being stuck on 14nm/Skylake.
Now is a bad time to buy a CPU, wait for Intel's proper next gen (Rocket and Alder lake), these have a 15-20% IPC improvement and will be the leap forward in gaming performance many care about.
At 1440p or 4K there is nothing in it with Ryzen winning in some. Zen 3 appartently has at least a 15% performance boost over Zen 2 and i should imagine Rocket Lake going up against Zen4. My guess is over the next couple of releases AMD will pull away and it will be a few years before Intel come back.
Not that i really care one way or the other as personally i like trying all brands when they are ahead or at least really close to equal and homnesty believe brand loyalty is dumb