Zen2. Is Intel now the gamers choice & price/perf king?

[beany_bot]

So hear me out. This might sound mad what with all the latest buzz and excitement around the Zen2 launch. But doing some fag packet maths.... Intel might actually be the go to system for gamers.

Lets break it down.

by AMD's own slides we saw parity with Intel in gaming. I think we can all agree on that. It's roughly the same. (And thats by AMD's own slides, showing best case for AMD).
so it is favourable to AMD to say that they perform the same in gaming.

Anyway. Lets focus on price then.

9900k can be had for £450.
3800X will likely be £400.

So at this point AMD wins to the tune of £50.

Alas....

AMD requires "premium" memory to hit its best performance (and likely what was shown by AMD in the keynotes, they aren't going to show gaming benchmarks vs 9900k on junk RAM now are they.

So add is decent RAM for Zen 2 for say £150.
Intel will get the same performance with half decent 3000Mhz RAM at £75.

So now we have AMD loosing to Intel to the tune of £25.

But it gets worse. Motherboards.

As we are seeing. X570 boards are going to be expensive. Lets look at a typical gaming mobo choice for many. the ASUS ROG STRIX F Gaming.

On Z390 its around £190
On X570 its going to be £299!! a £109 premium.

So that takes our grand total to £134 MORE for the X570-3800x system than the Z390-9900k system.
Thats with performance (by AMDs own metrics) pretty much identical.

So in all seriousness. Once the hype dust from Zen2 settles.
Is Intel now the best choice for gamers?

 

[beany_bot]

I'll be using my X470 and keep the 12 core at stock.

Checkout any 9900K owner and see the kind of RAM they pair them with. Most i see carry 4000MHz and they are not cheap.

If you dont Overclock your 12 core and do the 9900k you are loosing the performance race. and still loosing the price/perf race.
My point is you don't *need to pair a 9900k with expensive RAM to win at price/perf.

 

[beany_bot]

Wut? Actually, cant really compare my ryzen system to any Intel cos of my use case. I use my system to access clients' data.

So why are you commenting??? The title says GAMERS choice.

 

[beany_bot]

Joke thread again as always with none retail product!!!

It's not a joke thread. It's a discussion thread with a bit of devils advocate thrown in.

I've been pricing a 3800x system (And I bought your RAM for it)... And my pricing has me sitting at more than a 9900K build would cost. Assuming the 3800x and 9900k are similar perf. my question stands is Intel the price / performance king now?