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The pre-Zen 3 CCX architecture was the worst choice for gaming, that's all that I said. This isn't philosophy, if you choose a CPU for gaming and that choice becomes hopelessly obsolete in < 1 year then you made a bad choice. The main thing that saved the Zen 2 gaming thing from being in everyone's face was COVID and the GPU price jump / scarcity.
Recent benchmarks don't even list Zen 2 on the charts anymore - gen 9 is usually bottom of the list. And here's why -
The difference is not margin of error, that's something people who can't read a chart repeated until they all believed it (feedback loop).
This is with a 3080, the contemporary of Zen 2 CPU was the gen 9 and gen 10, here you have 15% higher FPS with a 9900K vs 3900X and almost 20% with a 10900K.
Zen 2 was mostly fine with 2XXX series Nvidia cards but that fell apart in the space of 12 months. Again, Zen 1 and Zen 2 were demonstrably two of the worst CPUs one could have bought for gaming in the past 3-4 years.
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Ah yes. A 3080 that is unobtanium. I see.
And even then, turn on RT and you are back at square one. Go anywhere beyond 1080p and you are in a similar place...
15% is nothing if the averages are already royally above 60 and most of the time in beyond 100 FPS territory. 15% is also far from obsolete anytime soon, and again, only if you arent necked by GPU.