I'm quite excited with what AMD has pushed on socket AM4 over the last three years.

Come September they're going to release the 3950x,and if folks can wait a bit, you get 16 cores/32 threads on one socket.

But even on a budget, the 3600G looks like a great buy with Navi 20+3600 on chip.

The deal is that they have reasonable spectre mitigations working since last few gens, and Intel has to fix this if they need to be competitive. Not to mention standardizing a chipset.