My take is that AMD is probably focusing the HPC market, which is very lucrative and profitable and the associated workloads are well threaded and benefit greatly from high core counts. The long and short of it is, if true, that Ryzen is slightly slower than a 6900k and faster than a 6800k but what is likely to disappoint many is that in gaming benchmarks it performs on par with an i5 6600, though power consumption is great for an AMD cpu.