> There's no way that Intel processor is beating a 5950X that is also drawing 300W. At that point some Ryzen's will be operating at close to 6GHz per core.
Modern desktop CPUs are already being pushed well past the peak perf/watt efficiency in order to extract the maximum amount of performance. A Ryzen 9 5950X would need substantially more than 300W to hit 6 GHz, and you would need exotic sub-ambient cooling to keep it stable at those speeds.
A more reasonable comparison would be against EPYC and Threadripper, both of which use their respective power budgets for more cores rather than more clocks. A 64-core EPYC 7763 has a TDP of about 280W, and it's going to substantially outperform the Core i9-12900K when given 300W of power.
Outperform it assuming your workload can actually saturate 64 cores. In the desktop market though, and heck often in the server market, you're going to struggle to do that. Single thread performance is still hyper important and that isn't going to change anytime soon. Intel seem to have the edge there, in a big way.
Modern desktop CPUs are already being pushed well past the peak perf/watt efficiency in order to extract the maximum amount of performance. A Ryzen 9 5950X would need substantially more than 300W to hit 6 GHz, and you would need exotic sub-ambient cooling to keep it stable at those speeds.
A more reasonable comparison would be against EPYC and Threadripper, both of which use their respective power budgets for more cores rather than more clocks. A 64-core EPYC 7763 has a TDP of about 280W, and it's going to substantially outperform the Core i9-12900K when given 300W of power.