Quote from: Bennyg1 on Today at 03:35:089% is indeed not that special when the deficit was 30%-40% in gaming at launch.
There never was a deficit, except in elitist-gamer-circles. The AMD competitor for Arrow Lake was the 9950x CPU, and not AMD's X3D versions. And the first mentioned was beaten in efficiency and speed. And previous Raptor Lake were also beaten in efficiency also and the 5-10% lack in performance has meanwhile be solved.
Most of the criticism came from gaming-focused magazines and youtubers who never cared a flying furk about efficiency and praised previous Intel CPUs although they pulled 400W. As long as the gaming-benchmarks were the best they ignored any and every other issue of the CPU. And now the same magazines and youtubers jump on the AMD X3D-CPU train and praise it to heaven, regardless of microstuttering issues or heavy framedrops once the 3D Cache overflows ... pathetic, everything ...