It has been for well over a decade so...
I hope you've been around building for as long as he has and others because this Intel heckling is getting tired. Anyone whose been in this scene has rotated back and forth between Intel/AMD when the performance/value crown has traded places. At this point of performance and core count, there's nothing but heckling if someone continues to focus on details related to micro-architectures. I can almost guarantee you less then 1% of people who do this have a single clue or technical analysis doc exampling why there are performance differences between Intel/AMD beyond raw clock speed differences. Meanwhile, the fact that these vidya centric processors are still clown-bus (ringbus) . a dead methodology seems to evade these "experts".
Show me what happens to latency when you try to make a 16core chip with ringbus...
It is well known that games are tweaked to specific processors and optimized for specific video cards.. Absolutely no one who matters cares about the extra 10 or so FPS you can get on Intel's processors vs AMDs (if that). How well does a 2P 64 core compute monster run crysis? No one cares .. People care about raw computing. Throughput vs latency.. Comp arch 101. You can't have both. If you want low latency, throughput is going to get sacrificed. If you want more cores, single core performance will suffer and clocks will go down. People are off into the big boy leagues of computing and a vocal super minority keeps ranting about single core performance and vidya games... Come on.
This is the reason why I throw massive shade on pseudo-deep dive reviews that are all over the internet. Everyone suddenly pretends like they have a grad degree in computer engineering with a decade of industry experience that allows them to comment about differences in micro-architecture. High-end gaming is an insignificant portion of computing. Completely insignificant by the numbers.. So, no, I don't want AMD to focus on how to make a silly hotrod one off processor like intel does with all sorts of micro-architectural hacks and shorts cuts in order to win yester-years advertisement crown for best gaming CPU.. Meanwhile this causes five hundred and eleven socket variants and micro-architectures. That's exactly why they're in the pickle they're in now. Look at the big picture.
I want AMD to focus as they have on building a robust all around platform that I can build and scale out my compute on. A platform I can go from dual core all the way up to 128 core with a familiar micro-architecture and core complexes. A platform that isn't a silly monolithic die that costs an arm and a leg. That is the future. Absolutely no one cares about the 1% of the market that wants a gutted drag race car that slams frames the fastest to the GPU. No one runs this in enterprise computing. It's super inefficient, silly, and it's not scalable.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/coffee_lake
Ring interconnect... You can't scale this hot-garbage micro-architecture that has been around forever past 8 cores. So what are we talking about? You have low latency because you're on ringbus. If AMD made a ringbus CPU they'd have low latency as well. Ringbus is dead.
Every single processor Intel makes is obsolete. In 2020/2021 when they revise everything from the ground up and with a long term vision in mind, then we can talk about Intel. Until then, it's a pile of hot garbage and don't even get me started on their insane Mesh/tile interconnect micro-architecture reminiscent of the utter disaster Xeon Phi :
Beyond a ridiculously complex architecture with tons of latency variations dependent on which tile you're hitting, you have a huge power draw from the grout routing that runs between all of this. This is a mess. Lastly, This only works on a monolithic die.. boom, costs have now doubled. There isn't a single thing Intel is doing right and by next week AMD is going to burry them.
This isn't a drag race contest of lowest latency. That was yester-years battle. Were talking about robust scalable micro-architectures and long lasting platforms. Intel can win all of the latency contests they want.. At the end of the day that will result in a ridiculously expensive, dead, and unscalable monolithic chip architecture that will result in their bankruptcy.
If you want to be relevant in computing, you have to have a multi-die story going forward (period). Intel is going to have the same latency or worse as AMD once they get their head out of their behinds and figure out how to design modern processors that are affordable and scalable.