See attached. Yes I've explained that to many AMD fanbois. Games are very latency dependent as well as raw clock speed (and IPC obviously). In my real world experience; I've seen 9900k always beat 8700k/8086k due to same IPC, clocking higher on average, more cores to help balance background programs. The very slight latency advantage 8086k has is real, but small. Ryzen has a much higher latency wall to fix and is a much better argument.