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Short boosts is the way for best gaming performance, no way around that. And also many other workloads like photo editing, heck, even flicking through web pages and spreadsheets.300 watt cpu, throttling after 20 seconds.... well done liz intel.
the 13900k is a joke. i hope the 13600K will be more efficient.
https://youtu.be/H4Bm0Wr6OEQI have a 5950x at the moment and I was waiting until both the 7950x and 13900k were released to pick one. I was worried about the 7950x pumping out so much heat as the 5950x is already on the limit of what I would want heat wise but when I seen the 13900k it was an obvious choice. I will just put the 7950x into the 105 watt mode to hopefully be similar to the 5950x in terms of heat pumped into my small office.
The 13900k shares the same story as all of the AMD 7000 series. IE - make it mad and it will get very hot and use a lot of power. You need to treat it the same way as all of AMD's new CPUs. And that is by looking at how it performs how it should have been released.
I can't remember which review I skim watched today, might have been a GN. And they were saying how these CPUs are no longer being released in a state in which you should use them, simply to show up on charts.
Now BITD a CPU would be released well under that state, and well, that is how overclocking was invented and became a thing. These days? the MFGrs are so desperate to outdo each other in charts they clock the crap out of them themselves, leaving 0 headroom.
If you put a 7000 series where it ought to be? they are very efficient indeed. They bloody well should be on that node. Sadly AMD deem it necessary to make them look ugly by clocking balls out of them. Just to be on a chart. Power efficiency is now no longer cared about, so long as you look good on a gaming chart.
I just watched another video on YT titled "Don't bother overclocking a 13600k". Which says it all, IMO.
Yeah, it makes sense for many to invest in a high-powered processor if they're going to take advantage of it.
But the 6800XT at 4k (I think you play at 4k, right?) is GPU bound. While you do need a 12700KF for other tasks, at that resolution with that graphics card, a lower end CPU would not bottleneck your GPU.
I also think AMD are having kittens over Raptor Lake. I know they have the 3D cache variant not far away, but unless they release a six version that's $300 and bring the 7600X down to $250, I don't see how AMD are going to be able to sell many Zen 4 chips other than the 7950X. And even that has stiff competition from the 13900K. I personally would rather the 7950X any day, but it is at least competitive when you factor in platform costs.
With Intels better overall gaming performance and the fact you can still use DDR4 which is miles cheaper and has shown to have near zero difference in gaming vs DDR5 AMD need to bring their prices down... I don't know anyone from my circle who has bought into AM5.
I haven't seen a single person with an AM5 system yet.
Just put together a 7950X system for work this afternoon...
Genuinely the first person I remember seeing.
The 7950X is the only processor that makes sense from AM5.