Tech Guru wroteStill an 2014 4th Generation i7 4790 that is released in 2014 beats an 1700x in gaming , for pure gaming I will stick with intel and upgrade to Canon Lake (10nm)
Ryzen 5 are around the corner, 170$ for 4c/8t that is overclock-able on its stock cooler with 80$ motherboard, I'll take that over the cheapest i5 7400 any day in the week.
As for top performer, yes Ryzen7 even Ryzen5 1600x will not match the i7 7700k performance, but for what it offers for its cost, and the fact it doesnt bottleneck any gpu in normal cases (which is not playing at 720p using low preset), also add the fact that a simple game update will drastically change the performance like in Ashes Of Singularity also BIOS updates improved FPS on Hitman/Tomb Raider.
AMD are back to their playground with a good CPU that will force Intel to reduce the prices of normal CPUs and the stupid prices of workstation CPUs.