You'll pass because?Yeah, they moved from 4c/8t to 6c/12t with i7, now it's 8c/8t. Nah, I'll pass.
Intel did a performance jump in the 8th gen as a direct answer to Ryzen. Now we're back to incremental improvements like before.
8C/8T and 6C/12T perform similarly in typical multi-thread load. 9700 is the direct successor to 8700. I told you the lineup makes sense.
8C/16T is faster, so they added i9 to the consumer offer.