Well I have been waiting for a few years to upgrade, ever since the i9-7980XE I've been waiting for Intel to do something special with the i9 series. 

Been expecting them to really work with the i9 as a HEDT CPU, I have had intel forever, as it was a solid product which made them leaders and hard to move away from. 

This latest effort from Intel tells me my wait is over, with Very Expensive CPU and Motherboards, these are okay if you lead the market, but they've fallen of the initiative, value and performance wagon for me.  The're old news now to me after reading this.

So! What has AMD got for me these days?  Needs new machine.with 18 or 22 cores.

 :o :-\ by looking at that spec sheet, the 11th Gen is worse than the 10th Gen, what really does the 11th Gen bring PCIe 4.0 that AMD have had now for the last two processors, to be honest i would tell anyone either go AMD or wait till 12th Gen CPU towards end of this year

So basically i9 = i7 in the upcoming Intel's generation. Of course, i9 may be better-binned chips, but I believe both would behave within 3% when OC'd.

Judging from the other leaks, Intel's Peltier cooling and the motherboards with the beefiest power phases good enough for 64-core Threadrippers - those are gonna be VERY power-hungry and hot. Some leaks suggest that i9 would be up to 250-300 W on its own when OC'd. So this would result in much higher expenses for cooling (air wouldn't literally work), PSU power, overall heat generation inside the case, and shorter overall lifetime. And those ultra-expensive Z590 mobos will be short-lived since the next generation will have DDR5, and since the CPU core limit for that generation is limited to 8 cores (even Comet Lake is more future-proof with 10/20 top CPU).

Stupid "new" generation, to be honest.