Lol, what a freaking joke.... 2x the power draw of a 1.5 year old Ryzen 9 5950X (which costs significantly less atm & ESPECIALLY for a whole platform) for basically the same performance in stuff you ACTUALLY buy a CPU like this for... 😑 ... This is only interesting to me for the sheer BANAYNAYS factor of a shipping part having clock-speeds this high... That's it.
And if talking about STRICTLY gaming performance, lol this isn't going to be even CLOSE to enough to knocking out Zen 3D, assuming AMD wasn't just COMPLETELY LYING OUT THEIR ASS with their 1080p gaming performance estimates!
(Aka, that at 1080p the 8c/16t R7 5800X3D's about +15% faster ON AVERAGE vs the 12c/24t R9 5900X. [Which was already a teeny-tiny bit faster at gaming than a vanilla R7 5800X, so it should be like ≈+16-17% over that.])
This ridiculously stupid & grossly overpriced i9-12900KS can't even break +10% faster on average over the R9 5900X over a wide variety of titles at 1080p! Instead, it just takes the OG i9-K's ≈+5% advantage over Zen 3 up to a like ≈+7-8% one... Whoopdie freaking doo.... 😑
So unless AMD was literally BS'ing their performance numbers by a literal factor of TWO TIMES (!!! Aka that Zen 3D's actually only ≈+7-8% faster on average vs Zen 3 at 1080p, NOT +15%), they should have absolutely NOTHING to worry about in the "flagship gaming performance" market. 🤷♂️
My biggest worry in regards to "flagship gaming CPU's" is that R7 5800X3D stock is going to be basically NON-EXISTENT, not that it won't take back the gaming crown (which I COMPLETELY expect it to do).