I hate to answer this question until I know what specifically is being done with the PC. Many folks want the best and equate that with pricing, cores or some other variable which all too often as no impact on that they are doing. While you must always evaluate your hardware choices based upon what softwarere you use, I'll assume Premiere pro Workstation in this example. Here we recommend:
Worsksatation Rendering, Video Editing, etc): Intel still holds the title here and has been price competitive. Looking here for example for Premiere Pro we see that the cheaper 7800x edged out Ryzen in the sub $400 segment
https://www.pugetsystems.com/pic_disp.php?id=42852&width=800&height=800
https://www.pugetsystems.com/pic_disp.php?id=43667&width=800&height=800
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...PU-Comparison-Skylake-X-vs-Threadripper-1012/
In the last link, we see the 16 core Threadripper totalling 451. Intel's flagship 12 core 7920 X scored a slight win at 454 in the 4 tests but it was the 10 core 7900x that tool the in at 465. While the 7900x and Threadripper cost $1,000, the $600 7800x scored 447. The $1000 16 core from AMD was only 0.9% faster than the $600 6 core 7800x proving once again that the focus on cores is misplaced.
Again, this assumes a Video editing workstation with Premier Pro as the central app of concern ... comparisons for other software should be made as and when appropriate.
Gaming Box - Here again, more than 4 cores is meaningless in and of itself. i7's generally perform better, passing stricter testing and if ya turn off HT, you can often squeeze an extra 0.1 to 0.2 Ghz out of ya OC, But the i5 still does quite fine. As it says in every TPU review on Ryzen ... "Gaming performance lower than competing Intel Core i5 chips / Limited overclocking potential / Memory still a bit more problematic than on Intel"
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https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Ryzen_5_2600/20.html
Workstation / Gaming Box - This is where I like Ryzen. If you are using Premiere in a production environment, you are not going to be looking at this price segment. But if as a hobbyist, and ya not using w/ premier more than say 25 - 30% of the time... while Ryzen does not present a "best of both worlds" approach, while it won't "capture a title" on either side, it does do pretty darn well tho the 1800x (446) didn't quite catch up to the 8700k's 491 score
Moving forward unfortunately, Pugent Sound has not done a review with the new Ryzens and we have not yet seen the new Intel CPUs. Techspot did the new Ryzens but not the whole suite of tests ... they showed that the 2700x OC'd (390) beat (3.6% / 5.8 % faster) but both the 7802X (404) and the OC'd 8700k (413) with "export to youtube". The 8700k OC'd took the title in Warp Stabilize test with a 106 (28% faster) to the OC's 2700x score of 136
https://www.techspot.com/review/1613-amd-ryzen-2700x-2600x/page3.html
Again... there are certainly many tasks in which Ryzen performs better.... if ya spend your day zipping files, than the 2700x is for you. Handbrake favors Intel, Corona / V-Ray favors Ryzen, Blender favors 8700k. Gaming was a win for the 8700k across the board.
So again, w/o knowing the apps in play, I hesitate to recommend one over the other.
