I see people constantly recommend the 7700X/7800X3D if you’re primarily gaming and an Intel chip if you’re doing both gaming and productivity tasks. Even I make that recommendation based on the benchmarks I’ve seen.
That got me thinking though. Are there any reasons to get an Intel chip if your primary use case is gaming? I’m not trying to dig at Intel, I genuinely want to know if there’s anything I’ve overlooked about Intel chips regarding their gaming performance and factors around them. Maybe more future proof thanks to the extra cores for when games inevitably start using more cores.
If you look at certain price points Intel makes sense. People complain about power consumption, but in games something like the 13600k doesn’t pull that much. I’d have check again, though. These days I kind off like tuning Intel CPUs more for performance. If you disabled the e-cores on a 14700k, use that extra power to bring the clocks slightly higher, and then tune memory, and ring bus, or whatever its called now, I wouldn’t be shocked if you could match a 7800x3D, at not too bad of power consumption.
I’d like to see some actual tests, though.