Overall it is very exciting times ahead. Next week is when we will see Independent reviews come out. If Intel is 20% faster in gaming benchmarks, that would be excellent performance. If they are 10%, then it's good but not great. According to Linus, AMD is expecting to have up to 25% increase in gaming performance with Zen Vcache which would be pretty nuts if true. But as a platform, Intel will be well ahead at least until Zen 4 arrives and with tech like PCI-E Gen 5 and DDR5, it will be hard not to recommend them unless the actual performance turns out to be terrible.
Overall the pricing is meh but least there's the KF models if you don't need an iGPU. Considering the MSRP of 5000 series was pretty high without iGPUs, I think it's fair enough assuming the performance is there. The i9 will most likely be a skip for most people though.
The small cores are supposed to perform like 10th gen without hyperthreading where as the big cores are supposed to be 28% faster which is nuts.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
