I'm super impressed with the new 32 core Threadripper systems.
I don't do a ton of encoding / highly threaded loads at home, but if I did I'd be looking at a Threadripper of some sort!
As it stands my most performance sensitive application is Lightroom, mainly when working with high megapixel (often stitched) images from my Nikon D810 DSLR. Lightroom heavily favors single threaded performance, especially from Intel, so I have a watercooled i7-7700k.
That being said, the 8 core boost frequency on the new Threadripper is pretty cool - when you're in "game mode" it clocks 8 cores up quite high so you get good single threaded performance. Regardless, I bet the Intel offerings will still be faster for Lightroom
I absolutely love how AMD has been coming up with such innovative, disruptive products, though. I definitely can see them taking a nice chunk of the cloud server market with Epyc, and maybe a decent chunk of the HEDT market with Threadripper.