Major_Trouble :
What they will take advantage of though is clock speed. That's why Intel CPUs consistently out perform AMD chips
Agree with most of what you said.... but this aspect is not strictly true.
It's more IPC (which, in & of itself is an average of 1000's of instructions) and single thread performance than it is clock speed. With a normalized clock speed, Intel chips will still outperform their Ryzen counterparts in gaming* but Ryzen 2nd Gen seriously reduced the gap.
It's minimal, and personalyl I would opt for Ryzen if I were building today, simply down to the value proposition. Typically well <5% performance difference in gaming -- and a heck of a lot cheaper!
*more often than not... of course it can vary title to title. ,