Well, I always said that Skylake-X is stupid, but I didn't expect it to be this bad:
When you take into consideration that the R5 2600 is almost 2x cheaper for the CPU, let alone the motherboard which also is 2x cheaper, it makes this comparison even funnier
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Enthusiast components have never made sense to me.
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7800x isn't the same as the 8700k... Was proven the mesh they used in skylake-x doesn't play nice in games when it was put up against the 1600x
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@XenosTech makes sense then, that's probably why it's marketed as a high-end desktop production CPU rather than a mainstream all rounder gaming CPU.
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@i_build_nanosuits Yeah, it's exactly as @XenosTech said - Skylake-X use a similar mesh interconnect design as Ryzen CPUs to allow them to have more CPU cores on bigger dies than the traditional ring-bus design that's in Intel's mainstream chips. As proven by Ryzen and Skylake-X, this design isn't the best in terms of gaming performance, still though - a ~400$ CPU that needs to be paired with a ~200$ motherboard that gets actually beaten on average (especially at stock) in games by a 199$ CPU? Those 1% lows are also a bit worse on the i7.
All that while having pretty much the same productivity performance is a bit stupid...