The new AMD Renoir mobile CPUs are kicking Intel's butt at the moment but so far almost all models came out with a shitty display. That will probably change soon, so if you can hold off the purchase, I would wait.
No lies detected. Only a fool would buy an Intel today. My work just bought me a "gaming" laptop with a Intel 9750H (a 6-core part) and some kind of nvidia 1600 GPU or whatever.
The thing is furnace. Weights 3 kg and it starts generating excessive amounts of heat and noise as soon as anything but a browser is started. Even skype calls make it sweat lol. Unbelievable
AMD Renoir APU at 15W is faster than Intel's best at 45W hahah
I have been using a dell xps15 (glass display version) and it's the closest I have ever come to a macbook with a windows laptop in terms of feel. It's still not a macbook but at least you don't want to throw it into a corner after an hour of working.
A nice side effect is that it outperforms it in hardware and is considerably cheaper...
Did my whole masters with it, 6 months of heavy lifting CAD/Rendering/Photosthop/... and it never left me hanging.