I know, I was there when you had your 13900k.
Just saying you should monitor and test it over some days to catch some data points.
I guess I misread a bit, I was a bit skeptical when you said you saw 25%-30% uplift in the lows. Thought you were referring to WoW.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the 9800x3d ran slightly slower than the 9900x3d due to smaller cache size.