Is Ryzen 5 better than i7?

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Review Leak: $200 CPU Beats $350 Intel Core i7-7700K. … Even more impressive is the Cinebench R15 rendering test, where the AMD CPU’s score of 1,123 is not just faster than the stock speed Core i7-7700K, but it actually beat it when the Intel CPU was overclocked to 4.9GHz too.