Quote from: RicoViking9000 on October 11, 2023, 16:31:56Yes, the sky is blue. The i9 is not meant to be a gaming-focused chip, it's meant to be a productivity focused chip. From both intel and AMD, if you're just gaming, the right move would be to save a couple hundred with a lower-end offering like the 7600/7700(x) or 13600(k)

Intel's own website makes it pretty darn clear that the Core i9 13900K is marketed toward gamers, and its marketing is full of language extolling its virtues as a gaming chip. I don't know why you think the 14900K is somehow going to be treated differently. While it was true that the original i9 series chips were treated as "productivity focused" and had lower single core performance (and thus gaming performance) in exchange for their higher core counts, this was only true for the HEDT parts using sockets and chipsets related to Intel's Xeon workstation, server, and datacenter division. For every i9 since the 9900K (and Intel's subsequent abandoning of the HEDT market) the i9 has represented the best gaming chip Intel could produce, with the highest and most aggressive boost clocks the silicon could reasonably be binned to obtain.

Yes, the sky is blue. The i9 is not meant to be a gaming-focused chip, it's meant to be a productivity focused chip. From both intel and AMD, if you're just gaming, the right move would be to save a couple hundred with a lower-end offering like the 7600/7700(x) or 13600(k)