"Considering all these factors, if we were to build a new gaming PC with a platform budget of around $700, we would unquestionably snap up the 7800X3D."
Yes, for gaming only. But if you want an all-rounder then the i7 13700k, hands down. It trades blows depending on your selection of games, but it`s marginally slower, which amounts to what? A few fps slower? You won`t ever notice. It runs hotter, ok, as long as it is stable, I don`t care. 100W more is not that big of a deal. But then... productivity. Just look at the numbers (google it!), it`s trashing the 7800X3D from all sides. Thus, I feel Intel has a better package if you want a PC for everything, not just exclusively gaming.
Real World Productivity, Not really....
I don't know of many day to day productivity apps that need crap ton of CPU cores.
Intel only leads in this area because of core count, which is one of the areas AMD led for the last half decade. Even first Gen Ryzen walked all over Intel when it came to these workloads... Now they are important?... Lets be real, No one is here is encoding and editing video footage or rendering 3D Models on the day to day. And if they are, more likely it is for work and they are using a workstation provided by their company....
Intel is still behind in performance per watt race, this latest generation showed they know how to close the gap when clock speeds are kept down low. But on performance models with high clock speeds, it is still a joke.