When it comes time to purchase hardware, I'm not thinking about who's winning the benchmark race, instead I'm considering if the hardware I'm lookin at will do what I want it to.
That's fine, though if it comes down to two systems being priced similar but one being a little faster than the other, or one costing less while offering similar performance, then it arguably makes sense to know which will give you more performance for your money.
However, this hierarchy list is a bit weird, as I mentioned in my previous post, to the point where I would say it's a bit deceptive to someone shopping for hardware, so I wouldn't read much into the exact numbers, as the percentages don't really reflect real-world gaming performance.
Your 5600X is not going to perform 25-30% behind the top-performing CPUs in most games. In reality, you would be hard-pressed to notice much performance difference between your processor and today's highest-end CPUs in almost any title. With a 6700 XT running at 3440x1440 resolution, your performance is bound to be limited by the graphics hardware more than anything in just about any of today's games, making the choice of CPU far less relevant. See this review of the i9-13900K at Techpowerup for example...
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-13900k/20.html
The charts on this particular page show the relative average performance while running these processors paired with an RTX 3080 at 4K resolution at ultra settings, but that should not be too far off from the framerates you might expect with a 6700 XT at 3440x1440. Your graphics card isn't as fast as a 3080, but the resolution isn't as demanding either. What you'll notice is that nearly all of the processors in the list from the last several years run the games very similarly, within about 5% of one another as far as average frame rates are concerned. Even if you reduce settings to boost frame rates, making the CPU more of a limiting factor, the performance difference will increase, but typically not by as much the hierarchy chart here might have you believe.
On the positive side, they did recently update the list of games used here for these tests, and increased their number a bit. However, they still only test a relatively small selection of games that show the greatest differences between CPUs, and remove any games from 1440p resolution that become graphics limited even with an RTX 4090, and don't test 4K at all, the resolution a 4090 would be most suited for. That might ensure they are showing the absolute worst-case scenario differences between these processors, but it doesn't accurately depict the much smaller differences you will see in the vast majority of today's games when paired with a graphics card running at a resolution that makes sense for it.
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