The 14700K is very much faster in multithreaded work (by a big margin too), but in the vast majority of games the 7800X3D is the superior CPU and has much lower power consumption (TPU's average power in games was 132 for the 14700K and 49 for the 7800X3D, review here). There are no hardware news or technology websites/channels that I'm aware of where this is not the case. I can't say why your friends have had those results, but they're not consistent with any of the benchmarks.
I don't say this because I care which CPU you buy, I really don't.
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