![]() Largely thanks to marketing incompetence, Intel is existentially motivated to deliver material annual performance improvements. Meanwhile Nvidia’s RTX 2060 alone accounts for a whopping 5.03%. Based on social media/press coverage, you would never guess that the combined market share for all of AMD’s Radeon 50 GPUs amongst PC gamers is just 2.12% (Steam stats). This playbook has easily outsold Intel in recent years but with every overhyped release, consumers lose trust in AMD. (Factorio, SotTR) will be cherry picked, video footage of the gameplay/settings won’t be provided and frame drops will be conveniently ignored. Via “Advanced Marketing” on youtube, forums, reddit, and twitter AMD will demonstrate that their upcoming CPU is the “best in the world” and offer “proof” by way of a small handful of obscure workloads. Although Ryzen 7000 has weaker multi-core, weaker single-core, higher platform costs and higher unit prices AMD have a 3D joker up their sleeve (7800X3D est. Gamers on a tight budget can save $40 USD with a 13600KF which is a 13600K without integrated graphics. Extreme workstation users may find value in the 13700K or 13900K. The 13600K beats AMD’s flagship 7950X in gaming and almost matches the 7900X in multi-core performance. New high-end gaming builders need look no further than the 13600K. The new CPUs are compatible with DDR4 memory and Z690/B660 ($150) motherboards. Raptor Lake CPUs offer around 10% faster gaming and 45% faster multi-core performance than their predecessors. Shoppers looking for more affordable options in the near term should consider the previous gen 3060-Ti, which offers excellent real-world performance for $400 USD. Most gamers, who are best off playing at 1080p, should wait for the upcoming, better value, 4060 series cards. PC gamers still looking to join AMD’s “2%” GPU club (Steam stats: 5000/6000 series combined mkt share) need to work on their critical thinking skills: Influencers are paid handsomely to promote inferior products. Although the 7900 XTX does outperform the 4070-Ti on paper, the 4070-Ti is more power efficient (quieter), has a broader feature set (RT/DLSS 3.0) and offers far better game compatibility (drivers). Users tempted to consider the 7900 XT/X by AMD’s army of sponsored Advanced Marketers (youtube, reddit, twitter, forums etc.) should be aware that AMD have a history of releasing benchmark busting, heavily marketed, sub standard products. Since the 4070-Ti only has 12GB-192-bit memory (vs 24GB-384-bit in the 3090-Ti) it is relatively weaker (5-10%) at 4K. ![]() The 4070-Ti is around 50% faster than the 3070-Ti and offers similar performance to the 3090-Ti at less than half the price. ![]() It features 7,680 cores with base / boost clocks of 2.3 / 2.6 GHz, 12 GB of memory, a 192-bit memory bus, 60 3rd gen RT cores, 240 4th gen Tensor cores, DLSS 3 (with frame generation), a TDP of 285W and an MSRP of $800 USD. The RTX 4070-Ti is based on Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture. High end gamers should investigate the 13600K, which thanks to both higher clocks and higher IPC (Raptor Cove), is around 15% faster than the 13400F. When paired with a DDR4 motherboard the 13100F/13400F CPUs (at MSRP) offer unbeatable/good value to entry/mid level PC gamers. As a result, Intel rarely get positive marketing coverage beyond launch, and their products remain relatively under priced compared to AMD. Since Intel don’t care for long term relationships with PC hardware influencers, for product launches, they often end up sponsoring influencers that are mostly funded by AMD. The 13400F offers comparable gaming and better multi-core performance than AMD's 7600X but at a lower price and without the need for an aftermarket cooler, DDR5 memory and an expensive motherboard. Although both processors feature the same Golden Cove p-cores, the 13400F has four additional energy efficient e-cores which account for the improvement in multi-core performance. The 13400F has around 5% higher single-core and 35% higher multi-core performance than its predecessor. ![]() The Raptor Lake Intel i5-13400F ($200 USD, cooler included) paired with a B660/B760 motherboard ($150 USD) and 2x8 GB DDR4 3600 RAM ($50 USD) offers good value for money to mid-range gamers. ![]()
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