I think AMD are actually in a very good place with their CPUs and I am expecting a real step up with their next family of GPUs.
Indeed...
HEDT:
Score 29294: AMD Threadripper 3990X at 3.6Ghz,
scerbera
Score 11660: Intel Core i9 10980XE at 5.0Ghz,
RSR
Mainstream
Score 10575: AMD Ryzen R9 3950X at 4.45Ghz,
kitfit1
Score 6996: Intel Core i9 10900K at 5.3Ghz,
FireTwo
AMD's best Mainstream 16 core at 4.45Ghz scores 90% as high as Intel's 18 core HEDT at 5Ghz.
Intel's 10 core mainstream at 5.3Ghz can't even keep up with AMD's stock 3900X..
Look at this, its just walls of AMD, no wonder Intel suddenly hate Cinebench, and in fact ANYTHING that isn't 1080P gaming.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/the-official-ocuk-cinebench-r20-benchmark-thread.18849380/
When it comes to gaming even Intel, in their own slides admit to losing in a bunch of games to AMD and where they do win its only by a few % with a small number of 10% or more outliers.
With the 3300X AMD are teasing whats coming next, doing away with CCX's.
3300X 4 core 8 thread at 4.4Ghz: 186 FPS
7700K 4 core 8 thread at 5.1Ghz (+16%) 193 FPS (+3%)
IPC difference +13% to the 3300X, AMD are also touting a 15% IPC gain the the Zen 3 architecture vs Zen 2, if that happens Intel will start looking decidedly Bulldozer in comparison.
As for Graphics.... Nvidia will win, that's ok, AMD don't have to win, they just have to make a good GPU fast enough and they will sell them like they are made of gold.
The XBox Series X is 2080 Super or a bit more with 52 CU's (actually has 56 CU's but is cut down to 52 for yields) at 1900Mhz. the PS5 runs 18% higher clock speeds than that at 2.23Ghz, at 2.2Ghz the XBox Series X would be at least a 2080TI.
If AMD can't beat a 2080TI with a 2.2Ghz RDNA2 GPU by 30% something is very wrong.