"In that case, it would be the 7900X, not the 8700K.
In saying 8700K is the "best" instead of the 7900X, people are already claiming a value proposition, rather than absolute best performance.
In that context, denying that the 2700X is the best is contradictory."
That's actually incorrect. For Pure Gaming, the 7900x is NOT better than the 8700K or 8086. It's single threaded performance at stock, and it's inability to overclock to or near 5GHz means that it almost always lose to the 8700K or 8086. It is though a much more balanced processor with it's 10cores.
To the guy who said sorry intel fan boys. I don't have any allegiance to anyone. I was squarely in the came of AMD in the days of Athlon XP (I had the 1600+), and I again was in the AMD camp with Athlon 64. I kept that Athlon 64 for quite a bit of time actually until I simply couldn't keep it any longer and went with the Core-2 Duo E6600, then the Core 2 quad q9550, then the 3820k. Same with GPUs, I was squarely in AMD came with Radeon 32, then 64, then Radeon 9700, then got the 9800 (at the time nVidia had that crappy 5800 that was late to the show and ran hot as hell with that vaccum cleaner blower. After that I think i went with the nvidia 8800, after that back to AMD with Radeon 5850, then Radeon 7970, finally then back to nVidia with 970, and now 1080TI.
so over the years, I simply have gone to either great price/performance like the Athlon xp, or went great performance but not Hot/loud, or recently just went with the best performance. Despite all that, I always was aware of what was the absolute Top performance, which currently is the 8700K/8086 for the CPU side, and the nVidia Volta/Titan/1080ti for the GPU side with respect to GAMING.
my 2 cents.