AMD did a very competitive job with Ryzen 3000 series processor. And that is rattling Intel a little feeling the heat. I mean for the last decade or so, Intel never even mentioned AMD anywhere in a presentation whatsoever. This year at Gamescom Intel, however, has changed that.

Intel is actively mentioning  AMD as being a worse performing products, in gaming and Intel's CPUs are "still better performers" with "real-world benchmarks". Intel wants to prove that they still produce the fastest mainstream processors and sends the Core i9-9900K and the Core i7-9700K as a double top compared to AMD's provisional Ryzen 3000 flagship, the Ryzen 9 3900X. They state:

"A year ago when we introduced the i9 9900K," says Intel's Troy Severson, "it was dubbed the fastest gaming CPU in the world. And I can honestly say nothing's changed. It's still the fastest gaming CPU in the world. I think you've heard a lot of press from the competition recently, but when we go out and actually do the real-world testing, not the synthetic benchmarks, but doing real-world testing of how these games perform on our platform, we stack the 9900K against the Ryzen 9 3900X. They're running a 12-core part and we're running an eight-core," he adds.

"I'll be very honest, very blunt, say, hey, they've done a great job closing the gap, but we still have the highest performing CPUs in the industry for gaming, and we're going to maintain that edge."

In games, Intel continues to be leading with exceptions here and there. In 16 modern games, the Core i9-9900K was 6 percent ahead of the Ryzen 9 3900X, while the Core i7-9700K averaged 2 percent more power. 

Otherwise, the Core i7-9700K is at least "on par". Curiously enough, Intel gives a value of "+/- 3%" for safety, as shown in the footnotes of the corresponding slide. In general, such an offset advantage could mean a clear victory. According to Intel, only two AMD games have AMD over the Core i7-9700K, while the Core i9-9900K is not even shown in more detail. These are Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. Intel mentions wins in some synthetics workloads and gaming. But as our reviews have shown, the truth there is just too burry with mixed results for both sides. 

Intel CPUs are Still Better - Says Intel