> Given that MAME is (unless something has changed recently) still heavily reliant on > single-threaded workloads, the Core i9-9900KS would probably be the ultimate CPU for > the job (it has the best single core performance of any x86 CPU ever made) > Although there are probably very few games in MAME capable of running at playable > speed on a Core i9-9900KS (or other similarly highly-clocked CPUs) but that can't run > on something more modest like a Ryzen 7 3700X or 3800X.
Thanks for the recommendation and the thoughts regarding the comparison. It looks like I should be able to save some $$$ going with AMD.