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The main reason the i3 and i5 exist is due to yield. In many fabs, all the processors start out at the highest tier and the ones that don't qualify to be an "i7" get cut down to produce the i5 or i3. The alternative to this is simply throw them away.
A 14th Gen i3 has roughly as much processing power as a 10th Gen i7, while using less power and having more features. At the same time, a 14th Gen i5 gives 13th Gen i7s a run for their money.
Name one other product where the model that costs almost four times less begins to outclass the upper tier model in a span of four years, if ever.
Your analogy doesn't work, simply because none of these models are old. They all exist in the same generation, with the same architectural features and the "chassis" (in this case, the motherboard) is compatible with every single model.
By your analogy, it would be equivalent to being able to take the engine and drivetrain off a Lexus, swap it into a Corolla, and still end up with a Lexus at the end of it.
The i5 is perfectly adequate for most games, especially when they're console ports that are mostly GPU bound.
Different processors serve different segments and there's a ton of overlap which I guarantee you would not care about if it weren't for benchmarks.
Saying the i7 should be the baseline just means Intel would have to put out an i11 to top the i9 that already exists.
Wait, you know about the i9, right?
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The i5 is perfectly adequate for most games, especially when they're console ports that are mostly GPU bound.
Different processors serve different segments and there's a ton of overlap which I guarantee you would not care about if it weren't for benchmarks.
Saying the i7 should be the baseline just means Intel would have to put out an i11 to top the i9 that already exists.
Wait, you know about the i9, right?
You can reasonably get the rest of the components for pretty close to what they have always costed (obviously accounting for inflation).
However, ever since the mining craze and scalping during COVID, the price of graphics cards shot up $100 or more from their pre-2020 prices. There's also fewer incentives for deep discounts these days, as the scarcity created a lot of stagnation in everyone's upgrade cycles.
The prices could have fluctuated back to normal already, but because people held the line, there's a massive surplus of what will soon become old inventory still going into newer builds. A good indicator will be when you stop seeing Intel 13th and 14th generation based systems sold with Nvidia 3000 series cards.
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