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I think people get a little over zealous with CPU requirements on games. If my eight year old Xeon 5676 can handle every past and present game I throw at it, I think you'll be beyond spec for years to come with a Zen 2(or any modern processor).
it depends a lot on the type of game and what you care about for that type of game. if you're playing a AAA singleplayer game, the GPU will almost certainly be the bottleneck. any i5/i7 tier CPU from the last eight years will be powerful enough not to starve the GPU most of the time. when I play this sort of game, I mostly just care about the average framerate. I don't care too much if every 10-15 minutes a complex s…
I suppose if your goal is 100+ fps that's probably valid for high fidelity multiplayer games like battlefield, but there is no way even an ancient CPU can't handle games like CSGO at many multiples of that. I value real estate and image quality, so my panels are 30" and IPS. Which means I'm limited to 60fps. However if I unsync, the framerate is in the 150 range in Overwatch. This is on a gtx 1070 with ALL settings maxed at 2560x1600.