One is that at 4K, as we know, the CPU doesn't really matter (using TPU's chart because TH didn't do a 4K test on the 9800X3D review, likely because it'd be a waste of time)
You have accidentally assumed that people make rational purchase decisions.
That rather depends on an individual's use case don't you think?
Because there is almost no stock in Europe. I know from Germany and Austria , people are Dying to get 9800X3d and cant find it at normal price.
Historically , everyone mocked their main competitors. and it never fired back they are just words.
I asked people at work, men and women that own a pc or use one at work, and I was the only one.
You can act faster than you process visual information. Say you can avoid a pothole on the Autobahn or play table tennis because IRL the events and your vision runs in parallel. Not so in games where input and render runs one after the other. See here.
From the lack of new reports among the millions of Raptor Lake CPUs out there, and the strong reselling prices it appears the degradation issue has been solved.
What is more interesting is how HWU refuses to show you performance scenarios like this that is well known and repeatable across vcache chips:
tsmc opened the big plant in arizona and are pumping out amd 9000 series cpus from it. i'd say they're taking it seriously.
except AMD gpu's are not horrible.
Did you at least scan through the videos?
... uh, like the article and AMD themselves said, they couldn't have expected that Arrow Lake wouldn't have a stronger showing in gaming perf, so hate it all you want but it's not like AMD can just snap their fingers and get supply shot up sky high. X3D models in particular take longer to assemble a final product, as mentioned. It's in AMD's best-interest to meet demand, so you can bet that they are pulling all the levers that they have at their disposal, especially given that AMD will probably have proper competition once Panther Lake arrives, i.e. lollygagging is no doubt a loosing strategy.
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