" this chip will OC to 4.8-5 ghz" - lol, on LN2 maybe, probably need serious water cooling to get it to 4.5 on all cores which might just be worth it.
Still, we haven't seen the price yet and in terms of price performance against AMD now, Intel has no hope of being competitive until they come up with something to rival Infinity fabric and it's yield cost.
What.. this chip is likely to OC to 4.8 on good air cooling alone, perhaps as a 4C turbo but that already makes it a super competitive CPU that sits nicely in the best of both worlds metric of good core/thread count + high clocks at a reasonable TDP. And compared to Ryzen at 4.0 on all cores, that is a serious gap of 10% or more on even the best threaded scenarios, and in single it will be over 20% faster.
Intel is still competitive on performance in many price brackets, including the bottom end as we are still waiting on a capable Ryzen APU, Intel also still has the mobile space in firm grip, in fact the only segment where they really aren't that competitive anymore is HEDT - UNLESS you are using an Intel favored workload, of which there are quite a few.
So really, bottom line, Intel hasn't lost THAT much ground here - the Ryzen 3 + 5 is very competitive with anything Intel puts out in the same price tiers, but Ryzen 7, not so much. In HEDT, funnily, the real advantage of TR starts paying dividends at the highest core counts, which is a tiny tiny sliver of the consumer market.
Ryzen's biggest issue right now is its clockspeed limitations, and ironically, these are tied closely to the infinity fabric-based design which is its biggest perk; on HEDT this is not a drawback, but for mainstream, it truly is.
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