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Gaming still heavily prefers single threaded performance.
People keep saying this, but does it tho? I've seen multiple benchmarks where 8 slower cores are faster than 6 high speed cores. I would say cache is more important that single threaded performance in 2023.
One thing that gets constantly overlooked in these scenarios is the fact that 8 core CPU's have more L3 cache than 6 core CPU's. so if a game uses 6 threads, an 8 core CPU of the same architecture with the same clock speed will potentially perform better than it's 6 core counterpart.
That's only true for intel, who disable part of the L3 along with the cores. AMD however has the full L3 enabled on their 6-cores.
The marketing folks love to add up the L2 cache as well, but since that is not shared cache, each core still has the exact same amount of cache available to it, in spite of having a lower number on the spec sheet.