(ps: my other favorite thing about that chart is the frametimes getting worse as processor frequency increases. The 8600k and 9600k are literally the exact same

(ps: my other favorite thing about that chart is the frametimes getting worse as processor frequency increases. The 8600k and 9600k are literally the exact same silicon, same cache, same core count. So a pair of processors both lost frametime consistency as they were overclocked… and actually the faster overclock lost more frametime consistency than the slower overclock. It’s literally a straight correlation between “higher clocks = worse frametimes” even on the exact same chip models, which obviously indicates an engine problem, along with the previous point about pentiums being faster than a processor with 3x the cores and 50% more threads at double the frequency on the same architecture. Like it’s just a facially absurd result to stand as the primary peg in the “6c are dead now!” argument. And the rest of the games weren’t much better - BFV was not in a healthy state in 2018-2019, for example, it’s not really indicative of anything except the state of frostbite engine in 2018.)