Everything in this post is incorrect. That you are cherrypicking ancient 1080p benchmarks only proves my point that you A) have no idea what you’re talking about and B) are proving my point. To the extent that computation does matter in gaming, Threadripper is better because it’s fundamentally threaded work. Another example of this is recent render thread parallelization work in Unreal Engine 5.4 and 5.6.
A system drawing frames faster in a non-GPU limited scenario, based on things like less latency due to core layout or more L3 cache, has nothing to do with CPU peformance and is completely useless because if your GPU is not the bottleneck then your FPS is going to be so high that differences do not matter.
You cannot show benchmarks at modern resolutions (4k and higher) with recent games, because you will find no statistically significant difference. Meanwhile with a weak low end CPU like a 9800x3D everything you do on the computer will be 300% slower and you will have no connectivity for serious gamer essentials like capture cards.
Not only that, but it’s double silly because with a Threadripper, if you want, you just can disable other CCDs while still maintaining the superior overclocking capabilities of Threadripper. This will reduce latency.
Anyone buying a low end CPU “for gaming”, which has little to nothing to do with gaming, and where there is no difference in modern titles at modern resolutions, is not only gimping themselves, but has no idea what they’re talking about to the point of computer illiteracy.