[philjohn]

Which chip to get depends on your usecase.

If you absolutely need the best single core performance you can, Intel is the way forward.

If multicore performance is important (lots of multitasking, lots of heavy processes running) then one of the 8 core Ryzen 7's will be better, for cheaper.

[chrisper]

Thanks. I guess I'll stick to my 8700k then.

[otakucode]

Just curious, what do you do that requires a fast single core? I always find it strange when people value that, as most computers nowadays generally run more than 1 process at a time.

[chrisper]

A lot of games only run single core. Though finally, more modern games do take advantage of more cores!

[drb91]

Computing things serially, obviously!

[copperx]

Ruby on Rails.