AMD Is Basically Lying About CPU Performance

[TechSpot Weekly Newsletter] Latest in tech June 20 Bad Benchmarks [It's Unnecessary But, AMD Is Basically Lying About CPU Performance](=.5mjrPDr8FEF8cdI2y_42QeqiDs3iRRi0ra48gJ7b08g) Did you know that AMD's old Zen 3 CPUs released back in 2019 are actually faster for gaming than Intel's latest Raptor Lake architecture? It's true, and [AMD has the graphs](=.t3EB8m2f6UkJ3R8SJjO5Vp8xWQgUO2Q8C0Ak5PBP3Dg) to prove it. =.IO2nv5YhN1zwjbKkBP1-7LP_FuFkxTBs8Ic58KDSl78 =.J5j9qP7LND14nPaJWLyM9TkHfYTuTnOQpCyHVhcTUBY Did you know that AMD's old Zen 3 CPUs released back in 2019 are actually faster for gaming than Intel's latest Raptor Lake architecture? 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