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Difference can be good but it's showing a sign of decline (some games that are still using old engines love the raw single thread horsepower of the i series).I've seen many benches where moving from an FX chip to i5 increased FPS by ~10 with the same GPU. 10FPS doesn't sound like a lot, but that can make the difference between a smooth 50-60 FPS and dropping down to 30-40 FPS.
There is tons of data showing Intel chips outperform AMD across the board. I am not saying they are bad. I ran a heavily overclocked FX chip myself.
Intel outperforms AMD no question (there's a reason why i've been running the i7 series for almost 7 years).
The point I was trying to make was most people overestimate the hardware you really need to run games well (it's not uncommon to hear "crap" or "junk" thrown around on a processor that's over 3x faster than the consoles CPU).
Excitement of someone else's money, over inflated PC requirements by developers, and lack of experience with different types of hardware attribute to this common misconception