I’m weirdly now also considering the 265k (obviously post microcode/windows update, whenever that drops). Better power consumption (at idle at least), $100 cheaper (than the x3d) atm, far more threads, better for productivity for the most part.
This is very funky lol, I wrote those Intel chips off entirely but I apparently missed all of the productivity benchmarks. Puget has this thing sitting higher than the 9800x3d in almost all of their tests by some margin… and yeah it’s got much better idle power performance which is nice