Yeah it’s still run on base clock and I would stick with intel cpu wise
Because getting screwed to butt by anti-consumer company is fun?
On Intel side you'll just end end up paying lot more than you did for 4770K for a CPU and platform that won't stay high end for half as long as 4770K.
Heck, there would be only one incremental architectural step.
All current Intel CPUs are architecturally same is sixth gen Skylake. (which was Haswell's desktop successor)
Since Skylake only clock speeds have been cranked up and more cores added finally after stalling for decade...
And crippling advance of game development along the way.
Well, next-gen consoles hopefully kick game development many years forward from that Intel induced coma.
They'll likely come with 8c/16t Zen2, whose engineering sample was demoed matching 9900K's performance at lot lower power consumption.
Even counting moderate clock speeds for lowish TDP of consoles, coding for fixed hardware and lot lower bloatware/overhead than in PC's is going to give games pretty much equal CPU power.
So for PC to last longer time as high end it will need more "horse power" than what Intel is giving... even at exorbitant prices.
And without upgrade path, because Intel changes sockets just for the fun of screwing consumers to butt:
https://www.techpowerup.com/250109/...0-ghz-overclock-on-a-z170-chipset-motherboard
Even on new socket Intel can't really do any real upgrade, until sorting out their failed manufacturing node development.
With real all core load max consumption being far over 100W Intel simply can't push more beef into cores or increase their count.
While Zen2 CPUs are going to work in current AM4 motherbord after BIOS update.
With 12 cores/24 threads likely being £300 level.
So best would be to wait for summer and upgrade that graphics card, which is notable bottleneck for any higher resolutions now.
Anyway 60Hz isn't going to put much of stress on CPU and there wouldn't be much of difference between Intel and current Ryzens...
Which are notably clock limited because of GlobalFoundries manufacturing process (bought from Samsung) was originally designed for phone/tablet CPUs.
Zen2s are made by TSMC with high performance node more advanced than that used by Intel.
While for instant game loading time improvement you could get bigger SSDs actually fitting more games.
Price of 1TB is very reasonable:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0a-hd-54j-wd.html
