@CUDAcores89 Intel still performs much better in Adobe premier due to premier taking advantage of Intel's iGPU.

So there are plenty of specific use cases where Intel is still the better buy.

@Skanky Sylveon Well.... Here's the thing

Granted I have no idea if the 9900k in this test is taking advantage of the iGPU or not, so the point might still be valid

@TVwazhere

Does the iGPU make that much of a difference when rendering? I'm personally not sure if I've used it on my 4790k, but I might try it if it does make a big impact.

@TVwazhere I think that this is the video. 

The iGPU definitely gives a large performance boost.  While I'm sure that a high core Threadripper or perhaps even the 12 core ryzen CPUs may be able to just brute force better performance, those are particularly expensive CPUs.

So yeah, definitely take advantage of an Intel iGPU if you have it.

What happens if AMD starts making APU versions of the Zen 2 chips, with Vega 12/Navi and HBM 2 built in? APU vs iGPU battle anyone?

That's actually crazy. He does mention a lot of the iGPU performance increase comes from after effects, transitions and special effects which is an important note. The video they encoded in the 3900x review had no effects/transitions in it since it was simply a Computex video, but I imagine videos like the ones Dmitri makes regularly see that performance boost. 

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What happens if AMD starts making APU versions of the Zen 2 chips, with Vega 12/Navi and HBM 2 built in? APU vs iGPU battle anyone?

@TopHatProductions115 Premier doesn't work with AMD's iGPUs unfortunately. 

@TVwazhere The 1950x did manage to beat the iGPU by a second, but that's a CPU that's triple the price.  Not really an appropriate comparison.  I would like to see gamers nexus redo this test because I think it is a workload that alot of people have.  If I were to guess, the 12 core would brush up on the 8 core Intel with iGP, while a 16 core would beat it by a small margin (much larger than one second though due to the IPC and clock speed gains).

I just really dislike these dumb questions from Linus and his staff.  It's clickbait as all hell, and what's best for you is purely dependent on what you plan on doing with it.

For general gaming and productivity I would recommend ryzen, I had that stance during the first generation and it's even stronger now.  But I'm not going to deny that there are a few use cases whete intel still makes a lot of sense. 

@Skanky Sylveon Adobe can fix that if AMD's APUs ever actually take off in the future. Especially 6 and 8-core APUs (hypothetically). Workstation laptop powered by AMD? Please!