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Yea in a lot of ways, this is Intel's Bulldozer moment. Their i9s and i7s are slower than AMD 5900x and 5800x. Their 8 core 16 threaded i9 is more expensive than the 12 core 24 threaded 5900x while consuming more power and generating more heat than the 5900x. And in some games and workloads, the i9 10900k can beat the i9 11900k thanks to it's additional 2 cores and 4 threads.
The only one anyone can recommend is the i5 but then when you consider you would need a more expensive Z series motherboard to overclock it compared to a B series on AMD which can overclock the Ryzen 5 just fine, the value goes down. Not to mention the 10 series i7s, i5s and i9s have been going on crazy sales if you are looking for the best bang/buck gaming build.
Crazy times guys. You know it's fucked for Intel when Nvidia is using AMD CPUs in their gaming benchmarks to show improvements! 2021 is the year of Ryzen as Alderlake won't be out until Q4.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
