No what I am saying is you have a many people claiming you can't game on Ryzen CPUs Period.
So I made a clear point that you can, regardless of Refresh Rate, regardless if its 1080p, 1440p or 2160p. What ever is possible on Intel CPUs are possible on Ryzen CPUs. You may not get identical frame rates, but surely they are more than playable on Ryzen CPUs. That is the Misconception I am talking about. I can care less about metric ton of data available, because I speak of facts.
I took myself as an example, because
people (Intel Fanboys) called me a liar in a couple other forums for claiming my particular setup (1700X & RX 580 8GB) was incapable of running 1440p even at moderate to low picture quality settings.
When I told them I averaged around 70 to 144 FPS on Ultra High Settings, the trolling started of course.
NOW Do you see the utter nonsense being spread across the internet?
People say a lot of things, but I can't say the common thing is 'you can't game on Ryzen period'... sorry to burst your bubble. I dó remember a fierce rumor when the 7700K was released that Ryzen offered 'better minimums' and 'better frame pacing'. Not supported by actual data though. After that the bench-dust settled and people concluded that at anything over 60 FPS, Ryzen 1 was not ideal, being limited by clocks and requiring fast memory to really extract performance. Ryzen 1.5 marginally improved on this. I personally expect the next iteration to destroy Intel's gaming dominance in terms of performance, closing the gap and offering more of everything on top. Ironically half of that has to do with Intel's performance gain grinding to a complete halt.
The reason you may see that alot is because of the places you visit, enthusiast forums and especially gamers will favor Intel. Don't mistake a niche for mainstream. In mainstream, people barely have an idea what they want, and if someone they trust tells them Ryzen is good, they go with it, just as they would go with someone telling them Intel's the way.
There is also of course the brand awareness, that is overall a bit higher for Intel. Uphill battle sure, but not the way you put it.
But another thing. There are
also examples, and they are not few and far between, where you actually need that fast Intel CPU
with an OC. This goes for games like Total War, many strategy games that go towards endgame, but also builder/survival games with huge worlds and any (older) title that leans heavily on single thread. MMO's are another good example of games that really like every Mhz you throw at them. It pays off bigtime and Ryzen actually does fall short - it will dive under 60 FPS faster and more readily. This is further exaggerated by the problem of the last decade, which is that GPUs have progressively become faster every gen with as much as 30%; while CPU performance stagnated entirely on single thread. This increases the need for a top-end CPU to support fast GPUs.
Yes that's true, but it matters most when pumping extremely high frame rates often over 150-160 where the CPU becomes the bottleneck
As you move down to the 100fps range the differences become much less worthwhile especially in 1440p or 4k. The only way you will see 1440p or 4k showing a bigger difference is if the GPU can basically run the game with ease and max it out to where the CPU starts to become the bottleneck. Though its important to note that this gap widens rather gradually as you move to higher FPS so that's another aspect people tend to ignore. its not like a cutoff where the load shifts to the CPU and that the higher IPC advantage suddenly appears.
But to address your main point, yes 700mhz is not a small amount by any means. Thats 16% higher than 2700x (4.3ghz) and on an extremely refined 14++++++ process that can sustain high clock speeds closer to advertised max. Also account for the other 4-5% IPC advantage that intel still has, and there you have at least a 20% single thread/per core advantage.
Another aspect people tend to forget is that you also get higher FPS across the board out of your GPU at
all levels of performance. Its minor, but its there. While your average FPS may well be above 100, the minimums never are, and having a lot headroom counts in those situations where the FPS takes a nosedive. This effect gets greater with faster GPUs - so even at 4K you will see an advantage from more CPU grunt.
