But that's kind of my point. All of those Intel chips can run close to 5GHz. Ryzen can only do 4GHz. As you said that's a 20% difference in clock speed/single-core performance.
It's only 3-7% slower on actual frame rates now, but I'm asking about in the future. (Nevermind, I see how pointless this is now.)
I'm just wondering if it will only become slower in terms of relative gaming performance. Perhaps this all depends on the game and how it is programmed to handle multi-core processors.
*I think my opinion is that if will be great for 60fps gaming for quite some time. But higher refresh rate it, even today, it will bottleneck without being fully utilized. For instance, at 1080p Ryzen 5 1400 bottlenecks GTX 1070, Ryzen 5 1600 bottlenecks GTX 1080 Ti. But neither CPU is anywhere near its max capacity while bottlenecking the GPU.
**My argument is still kind of pointless, because for the price of either Ryzen 5, you would get either an i3 or an i5, which will still both bottleneck the respective GPU in certain games.