A CPU clocked 33% higher is some kind of testament that Bulldozer is hanging out with Intel's top chips? Hell with a 1.2ghz advantage it still loses to Haswell. Could you imagine the power consumption charts? ANd then toss Skylake into the mix. Woof.
Zen better be more competitive than that. If it takes Zen almost 35% more clocks to still lose, just pack it up AMD. Don't even bother.
I rarely look at the 9590 numbers.
8350 = 95 average 68 minimum
i5 4670k = 104 average 65 minimum
all the i7s stopped at 104 average with higher minimums (impact on experience not quantified).
that's hanging in there. 9 fps differences for $100+ price difference + years newer and 2 (?) manufacturing nodes ahead.
if you do OC though you are pretty much matching i7 performance at stock even with 400 Mhz OC.
I don't see how a 14nm zen won't clean up. They'd have to make a processor worse than the current fx (in games like this anyway).