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Lol, more talk about AMD catching up - as they continue to fall further behind.
You're making the mistake of judging that based on the current state. But AMD is prioritizing its next completely redesigned uArch gen, Zen. So it's not spending much effort on optimizing the prior Bulldozer based uArch generation. This means the current state does not say anything about what things will be like in 2016 when Zen will be released. From what is communicated so far it will be a disruptive leap ahead for AMD.
Intel is not planning any similar complete redesign of their uArch as far as is known (Cannonlake). So we can expect the yearly 5% from them going forward, at least until late 2018 (the CPU generation after Cannonlake). Even after that it's still not known Intel will continue on the yearly 5% performance increase path.