Not at all. Frame Chasers is probably the most honest PC reviewer on Youtube. This guy has no sponsors, has no hardware that companies give to him to review, and has no agenda other than just honest "proper" reporting. He also never cares what company / part wins. He has also exposed & called-out big tech-tubers like Hardware Unboxed and Jays2cents with things like biased or scripted reviews, unfair and just simply stupid ways of testing which makes products look worse/better than they really are VS other products.
He often even admits when he does clickbait pics or titles for his videos. He jokes around about it in a satirical way because of how it's sad that so much good content isn't viewed by people if they don't have clickbait pics/titles. In this case, though, the pic is hardly clickbait as the 13900K is almost 0% better than the 12900K.
He'll have a bigger, more in-depth review sometime this week. I just hope he uses a 4090 instead of a 3090 Ti for his full review so that the CPUs are allowed to breath as much as possible.
Exactly. That's why those gaming results are underwhelming. Plus, I'd believe real life tests over marketing and numbers the manufacturer tells us. Furthermore, the single-threaded specs don't mean anything. When does your CPU go into single-thread boost? For 0.1 second while idling or loading Windows? CPUs never achieve single-core boost speeds under heavy loads in games. It's all crap that's good for nothing but marketing and synthetic benchmark scores.
I was hoping for much more improvements as well due to having more cache and a higher all-core frequency.
Frame Chasers used a 13900K at 5.6 GHz all-core, 5.0 GHz cache, e-cores disabled for even more P-core cache (since the e-cores normally steal some of the P-Cores' cache), 6800 MHz CL32 DDR5 RAM (faster than probably 98% of people's RAM setups), and a 3090 Ti. He gave the 13900K an extremely good chance.
The workloads that take advantage of the extra e-cores, like some rendering programs and other sorts of productivity programs - you know, "work" stuff - along with synthetic benchmarks (Cinebench, 3D Mark CPU tests, etc.) will definitely show a noticeable improvement but that means little-to-nothing for gaming.
We'll see how things unfold and hopefully things look better for the 13900K in future tests but Frame Chasers is not doing anything dishonest or deceitful in his testing.
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