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’re the type that likes to max out performance with your system by maximizing cooling, overclocking, tweaking memory, etc then Intel is probably what you want. Intel CPUs draw a lot more power than the AMD X3D cpus but they’re also capable of going quite a bit faster than stock if you can tame the heat and get fast memory to run.
I’m on a 7950X3D right now. It’s been so great so far but there’s not much you can do to get big improvements over stock performance. You could undervolt but there’s still a hard cap over the boost speeds. Some motherboards can allow more tweaking but it’s a lot of work. So even with great cooling, don’t expect much more than stock performance. AMD processors currently also don’t benefit much from faster than 6000 ram.