This is an interesting situation. For most gaming scenarios, even a 10600k is faster at stock than the fastest OC tuned Zen2 XT.
However, there are a couple of exceptions where the gap is fairly small, and the case of Counter Strike Source where it's basically tied, which seems to be a case where the game is so old (closing on two decades!) where the most crucial elements of the game actually fit inside the generous Zen2 cache, bypassing the latency limitations of the Zen chiplet architecture.
Latency being a bit worse on Zen2 is irrelevant to 99% of things outside of gaming, because you're dealing with predictable, serialized loads (encoding, compression, distributed computing ala folding/SETI) which are not as sensitive to it.
Both are more than fast enough for all generic light duties of web, office apps, etc, but general purpose and heavy compute scenarios simply favor Zen2, often by enormous margins when also considering the costs and power consumption.
Circling back to gaming, if you absolutely had to buy something over the next few days and wanted the best overall gaming options, they would be the 10600k, 10700k, and 10900k. 6C/12T 10600k is the best value of the three, and I find the 10900k a bit silly, as 10C/20T is not enough of an advantage over the 8C/16T 10700k to be worth the exaggerated price and aggressive cooling requirements. With a typical nice AIO or big air cooler like a Noctua DH15 Chromax, I think the 10600/700 would be actually superior in terms of keeping a more consistent all core OC vs the i9.
BUT, we are only a few days away from FS2020 moving from a limited alpha build to a public beta, which will probably be fairly representative of final performance. Given that it looks to be an extremely sophisticated and demanding title, if you are most interested in building a strong PC for this title specifically, it will be worth waiting to see what the actual performance is like with current hardware.
Questions such as :
Does it scale to very high core counts? If so, it might make a case not only for the i9, but the 3900/3950 could potentially outpace Intel in this title.
Does it on the other hand scale poorly past 6 Cores? In this case, a 10600k might make the most sense, or in the event it runs particularly well on Zen2, perhaps a 3600/3600X/3700 build.
Is it something like F1 where all the common CPUs run it well past normal refresh rates? Maybe this will let you spend less on CPU now, and plan on a drop in CPU upgrade in a few years.
Is it GPU or CPU bound at your expected display resolution and refresh rate? It's a world of difference attempting 1440/144 vs 4k/60 for example, and with Freesync/Gsync, a situation with fluctuations between 110-130 is totally fluid, while the same GPU might struggle to lock 4k/60, which is VERY jarring when you have drops under 60, and can experience tearing and input lag. The ramifications of these limitations drastically change where you need performance.
4k/60 you need an abundance of GPU grunt but not much in the way of CPU to maintain the most demanding titles at smooth framerates, while 1440p VRR, you are actually needing both solid GPU as well as CPU performance to hit those goals.
Two PCs doing 4K/60 with a 2080 Super, but one being a Ryzen 3300X and one being a 10900K OC, you would not be able to tell the difference between them in virtually any gaming scenario. As long as the CPU side of the minimums is beyond 60fps, you would never be able to see any reduction from having a $120 CPU vs a $700(?) one. But change that to 1440p mixed settings and 144hz, and suddenly you see big differences as even a 9900K/10700K/10900K at max tuned OC is STILL too slow to maintain 144fps in the most demanding titles no matter how strong your GPU is. Lower the settings to 800x600 and everything minimum and these heavy games still can't maintain 144 with current CPUs.
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