Like many are saying, the biggest competitor to Zen 3 on release, with the prices that were announced, may not be Intel but Zen 2 itself. 5800X might not beat 3700X on performance/price.
It's interesting about HEDT, over here 9980XE can be found for 1109 eur ( https://www.amazon.fr/Intel-i9-9980X...dp/B07JGCMQY8/), while 3960X is at 1409 eur.
I still think AMD should've released a 16-core Zen 2 Threadripper for people who need more PCIe lanes and/or higher memory bandwidth but not necessarily 24 cores.
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