I cannot afford $1000+ CPUs, but can you link to a review that actually shows this? I just read an anandtech review that compares AMD and Intel and I am not seeing that at all. In fact it looks like Intel still has a lead on single threaded performance which is really pathetic at this point. Maybe AMD should start firing and reorganizing too.
I also am not thrilled with the engineering logic of bimodality and other compromises that AMD seems to have made in their engineering to beat Intel on core count. As a purist I hate these sorts of shortcuts. On that alone I would favor Intel. History shows that they tend to go for engineering purity over shotgun approaches, but of course that sort of corporate culture can change at any time. There is something to say for engineering elegance and purity over meaningless benchmarks.
Intel has the tiniest advantage in single threaded which results in close to 0 noticeable improvement. Having double the cores on your cpu results in a massive noticeable improvement. When performing CPU intensive tasks like compiling code, AV1 encoding, etc, its all about core count. AMD also manages to have so much greater performance with a lower power consumption.
I also am not thrilled with the engineering logic of bimodality and other compromises that AMD seems to have made in their engineering to beat Intel on core count. As a purist I hate these sorts of shortcuts. On that alone I would favor Intel. History shows that they tend to go for engineering purity over shotgun approaches, but of course that sort of corporate culture can change at any time. There is something to say for engineering elegance and purity over meaningless benchmarks.