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.
I mean there’s a kernal of truth in there. They’re basically atom cores and the reason intel is using them is because they can’t fit so many p cores with their current node.
But they really do help in multithreaded loads, and loads not dependent on raw throughput are rarely going to need more than 8 strong cores, so there is logic to it. And smaller lower clocked cores really are more efficient.
It does more than make it look like the cpu has more cores, though of course it does do that too.