So I went from an i7-9700k to this processor, have I noticed a difference, yes, if I knew what it was like before I bought it would you have upgraded, to be honest probably not, apart from the ability now to use PCIE 4.0.
I don’t see much difference apart from the cpu temp are a lot higher, I went from 38 degrees to around 48 degrees on idol. But it has a larger power draw.
If you need pcie 4.0 then give this a go if not then go for the i7-10700k as it is cheaper and much better on temps and performance.
Overall though I’ve no real complaints and it smashes all my old 3D Mark benchmarks with my accompanying 3070 GPU
I did research on it before buying and when compared to some of AMDs latest CPUs it seemed to be the "loser" but after using a 5800x for about 2 weeks then switched to Intel within a day of setting it up and using it it's a much better CPU. I had decent improvements in the games I was playing. Even if not, I had zero issues booting my freshly builts PC while with AMDs 3900x and 5800x nothing but problems from the start. I was with AMD for years but to me, neither perfomance or realibilty are really that great cm pared to Intels new toys