i am no expert and it depends what you want to spend, but i believe amd offer the best bang for you buck right now, but if money is no object intel is still the fastest for gaming.
i have a 6 core i7 overclocked to about 4.3ghz.(i7 5820)
given i got it in 2015 it is far from cutting edge and i dare say most decent cpus would beat it now... but tbh other than acouple of flight sims nothing makes it break a sweat. i expect it will last me another 3 years easy, imo so long as you do not go mad, your cpu choice is less critical than gpu.
That sandy i5 2500k tho.. what a great chip that was... i too got one in 2011, and other than the motherboard fiasco it was fab.... the modern equivalent of the celeron 300.
it is still running now at 4.5ghz in my other pc.
As it stands atm Intel chips are still faster but at the top end, speeds doesn't matter a great deal if you go Intel or AMD and less so if you game above 1080p(which you should be, 1440p is fantastic if your not fussed about 4k yet)
Both will perform perfectly fine for gaming but AMD is def better bang for your buck, I went with the 2600x as it's at a good price point for performance for what I needed and leaves me open to upgrade next year with AMD's 7nm chips if I feel like it(which I probably will upgrade too)
You could even save your self abit more money and get something like 1600x or 1700x until Zen 2 drops.
I'm still rocking my R9 290 atm until AMD releases their new GPUs and seeing how things pan out there.
It's great what AMD have done with ryzen for the cpu market but the GPU market really needs AMD to pick up the pace, theres a great deal of hope put in the 7nm tech and I hope to god it delivers.
It does depend what you play, as there are a few games where the better IPC of Intel will win out in gaming. All VR racing sims for one because none of them are built from the ground up to run it and end up having a CPU bottleneck which more cores can’t help. Then stuff like geothermal valley in Tomb Raider in the non-VR category.
Basically modern Intel will guarantee less CPU bottlenecks in games not properly multithreaded, for a price of course but in everything else it doesn’t matter. I’m still running a 3930k at 4.2GHz without issues other than the aforementioned scenarios and that’s 6/7 years old!
Some leaked pics from MSI:-
MSI Geforce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Gaming X TRIO pictured
Looks like 11GB for "2080 TI" and 8GB for "2080".
Not HBM2 on the Ti which for gaming I think is fine. Maybe keep the card the right side of a grand. I guess this is the 1st time a ti has launched side by side with the vanilla card
Bugger me... If all these leaks are true that are coming out today NV are going in for the kill against AMD. Benchmarks showing the 2060 going head to head against gtx 1080 and that is half the card the 2080ti is. TBH I am smelling fake on some of them. The fact that all the cards Inc the ti are coming out almost as same time tells me this will be a short generation and as soon as 7nm is ready they may be replaced.... Otherwise why release the Ti now?
Hmmmmm ok so just to pee on my chips a bit pny pny briefly put the 2080ti on their site.
$999! Ouch
Could be worse. And probably will be if the mining craze is still a thing.
With the weak £ right now (thanks Brexit) we could be looking at an RRP worse than £1 to $1. Some are predicting UK RRP of £1100
Like you say if supply is limited due to miners it may be worse.
if it is 50% or more faster than a 1080ti £1k isn't too horrendous, especially with the dedicated ray tracing stuff. They could easily have called it a titan and then charged another £300for it.