If one was to take a perusal of our best gaming CPU guide, one would find it predominantly stuffed full of AMD chips. There's a reason for that—as a general rule, they're the fastest things you can stuff in the CPU socket of a gaming PC right now. That, and haven't been prone to crashing dilemmas like some of the older 13th and 14th Gen Intel chips. Still, Intel sponsors a lot of esports tournaments, and as a result, esports pros have been forced to use Intel rigs—and some of them, it seems, have been having a particularly bad time.
Hardware Unboxed has highlighted some of these pro player complaints on X, directly quoting professional Counter Strike 2 player ropz, who complains the game only runs well (by esports standards, presumably) on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and that "not every tournament has that." The replies are full of complaints regarding the difference in performance between Intel CPUs and AMD X3D chips, with the delta between the two sometimes claimed to be 100 fps+.
