There it is.
The reviews are terrible this time, quality wise. The whole mess of true and independent sites are dead now, that were staples 10,15 and 20 years ago which went to great lengths to compare apples to apples. People then had no other way of knowing otherwise, as there were no massive benchmark sites then. Only Blues News remains which was never anything remotely like a hard core review site. So many of them don't really show the shift properly, or end up being mildly slanted reviews. None that I saw were showing i5s against the lower one.
It's a proper blood bath. I posted a bunch in /s/Computers, but will have to basically make a graph in your own head to see the real news.
PassMark (real world systems aggregate)
i7 Desktop Market
- Intel i7 9700 - 17186, single thread 2819, $364.89 -- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-9700K+%40+3.60GHz&id=3335
- AMD 3700 - 24121, single thread 2922, $399.99 -- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+3700X&id=3485
i9 Desktop Market
- Intel i9 9900 - 20213, single thread 2898, $489.99 -- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i9-9900K+%40+3.60GHz&id=3334
- AMD 3900 - 32291, single thread 2904, $499.00 -- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+9+3900X&id=3493
i5 Desktop Market
- Intel i5 9600 - 13522, single thread 2682, $249.79 -- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-9600K+%40+3.70GHz&id=3337
- AMD 3600 - 19934, single thread 2848, $239.69 --https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+3600&id=3481
3rd Gen Ryzen vs 9th Gen i7 - Head to Head
- 9700 vs 3700 vs 3900 -- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-9700K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-3900X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-3700X/3335vs3493vs3485
3rd Gen Ryzen vs 9th Gen i9 - Head to Head
- 9900 vs 3900 vs 3700 -- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-9900K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-3900X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-3700X/3334vs3493vs3485
3rd Gen Ryzen vs 9th Gen i5 - Head to Head
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