I work on game performance (or rather, I work on the underlying engines with an eye on performance) and that is the biggest reason why my computer has an Intel CPU. I would love the killing power of an Zen 2 machine, the compile time improvement alone would make ith worth every cent. Unfortunately I use VTune a lot for work and there just isn’t any alternative, so I’m stuck with whatever Intel gives me. Which is doubly sad, because I end up optimizing for Intel’s microarchitecture and can only hope that it runs decent enough on AMDs CPUs.

On the GPU side though, at least with the modern APIs (Vulkan, D3D12 and Metal), AMD isn’t too far behind Nvidia. I actually prefer RenderDoc to Nvidias Nsight because I can capture multiple frames instead of pausing the application to look at one frame at a time. That being said though, the OpenGL tooling for AMD is abysmal and so is their OpenGL driver. All things being equal, just swapping an Nvidia card for an AMD card gives around 40-50% speed up when running OpenGL purely by getting rid of the driver overhead. Although with Vulkan AMD and Nvidia are actually on par, so at least that’s solving itself for us.