AMD had claimed the Ryzen 7 9700X would outperform Intel's i7-14700K by 6% in gaming. They have revised this statement though, admitting that both CPUs should be...

Among AMD’s bold claims about Zen 5’s gaming performance was that the Ryzen 7 9700X would be 6% faster than Intel’s Core i7-14700K. However, AMD has since walked back this claim, stating in a blog post that when running the 14700K with Intel’s “Extreme” profile and the same high-speed memory that most reviewers use, the 9700X performs on par with the 14700K.

  • xploit@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Also let’s not forget that the Intel extreme profile is probably not the recommended one, not that anyone would know what’s recommended by them these days though.