From what I know, Xeon CPUs focus more on lots of core but with less single-core performance, yet the Xeon w5-3425 is current gen, has only 12 cores and costs 1189$. On the other hand, the i9-14900K has 8 big cores (P) and 16 medium cores (E), with way higher single-core performance and costs half of the Xeon w5-3425. What am I missing ?
Intel locked down xeon CPUs with x299, so you cant put them in the consumer socket.
Also, anything past 18 cores uses the 3466 socket so it wouldn’t be able to fit in x299 anyways.