l.r.gardner :
The 9900K will be WAY faster than anything AMD has (AM4 socket). Of course it will be! More performance per clock, with higher clocks, with the same number of threads. What's confusing here.
More performance per clock? Are you implying that the cannon lake refresh is going to have over 15% better IPC, or are you just using the term "per clock" incorrectly?
...because AMD has a big per clock advantage on Intel right now.
https://digiworthy.com/2018/06/14/amd-ryzen-intel-coffee-lake-ipc/
It's gonna be even more interesting when AMD skips straight to 7nm while Intel is on 10.