AMD talked a mostly about the gaming performance of the new Zen 2 based processors during the Next Horizon event with some bold claims, but accompanied by internal testing data. The 3 main processors discussed were Ryzen 9 3900X, which according to AMD, should give mostly identical performance in gaming to Core i9-9900K, with ever so slight lead in single threaded performance and completely destroying it in multithreading. AMD points at their massive L3 cache as one of the major factors of the improved gaming performance. The other 2 processors talked about were Ryzen 7 3800X, which should again give mostly similar performance to Core i7-9700K, though just a bit less. And finally for the more budget oriented users (though from when $250 got to be “budget”?) we have Ryzen 5 3600X against Core i5-9600K – again mostly similar gaming performance. And for the both processors is still valid that now the single thread performance is mostly the same between the 2 companies, but courtesy to the more cores and/or threads the new AMD processors just wipe the floor with intel’s price equivalents in multithreading.
