AMD has lost their marbles!

[SteelCrysis]

I don't care how well AMD engineered Zen, all it takes is for someone to compile their application with ICC (the intel compiler) and AMD's performance is shot to hell thanks to the compiler baking slow code paths in for non intel CPU's.

True. The consumer doesn't know what compiler was used to compile their software.

and if you don't have single thread performance down pat then you have nothing so far as games are concerned.

Also true. 8-core Faildozer and 8-core Piledriver demonstrated that they could only be competitive with Intel with applications that could take advantage of all 8 cores.