AMD is still a newbie in the industry, and that actually works

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AMD is still a newbie in the industry, and that actually works in their favor, because 'gamers' are conditioned to believe 'more is better' : more FPS, more resolution, more refresh rate. And ultimately that mentality is what AMD uses to (unintentionally) take advantage of you. Most people looking to buy a new processor for gaming are usually coming from the dual core era of Intel. It's more than common knowledge that the newer quad core Intel chips perform better, and now that they see Ryzen 7, the same cost of the Intel flagship, with EIGHT CORES, they fall into a trap of believing that it's somehow 2x better than the Intel because it has 2x the cores.

One thing I'd also like to point out is that most modern games are more GPU intensive than anything, and if you're main reason for buying a PC is to play games, buy a cheaper CPU and use the extra money for a better graphics card, you only need a good CPU for productivity.