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 like tuning your CPU, then yeah, a tuned 12900k (mostly memory tuning, the rest stock) is as fast as the 7800x 3d in most popular games (TLOU , Cyberpunk, Spiderman remastered, hogwarts , Starfield etc.). A 14900k is way faster than that. Also, as you said yourself - longevity.