AMD100-100000159BOX
AMD100-100000281BOX
CSGO
Dust 2 1080p Max
251 EFps Slightly Better CSGO EFps.
+8%
233 EFps
GTAV
Franklin & Lamar 1080p Max
99 EFps 105 EFps Slightly Better GTAV EFps.
+6%
Overwatch
Temple of Anubis 1080p Max
131 EFps +1% 130 EFps
PUBG
M249 Training 1080p Max
113 EFps 124 EFps Slightly Better PUBG EFps.
+10%
Fortnite
UserBenchmark Island 1080p Max
128 EFps 141 EFps Better Fortnite EFps.
+10%
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 45,611 user samples
15,293 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 89% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 69% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg)
Poor: 69% Great: 89%
SPEED RANK: 242nd / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 80%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 85%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 68%
Battle cruiser
30,318 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 95% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 74% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg)
Poor: 74% Great: 95%
SPEED RANK: 184th / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 85%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 88%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 79%
Battleship
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
79.7 % 84.8 % Slightly faster effective speed.
+6%
05 Nov20|Techpowerup
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Review
Rage2 1% 3 % FarC5 6%, BFV 6%, SotTR 1%, Witcher3 1%, Civ6 8%, ACO 3%, MetroEx 0%, Sekiro 2%, Wolf2 1%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
77.3 Pts 77.4 Pts +0%
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
137 Pts 140 Pts +2%
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
257 Pts 272 Pts Slightly faster dual-core speed.
+6%
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
443 Pts 495 Pts Faster quad-core speed.
+12%
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
662 Pts 821 Pts Faster octa-core speed.
+24%
Memory
OC Memory Latency
87.6 Pts 88.1 Pts +1%
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
147 Pts 150 Pts +2%
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
289 Pts 296 Pts +2%
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
500 Pts 563 Pts Faster OC quad-core speed.
+13%
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
748 Pts 905 Pts Faster OC octa-core speed.
+21%
Market Share
Based on 67,768,128 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.02 % 0.04 % Hugely higher market share.
+100%
Value
Value For Money
94.4 % Better value.
+19%
79.1 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
70 % More popular.
+25%
56 %
Price
Price (score)
$150 Much cheaper.
+58%
$359
Age
Newest
47 Months 45+ Months +4%
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
753 Pts 1127 Pts Much faster OC 64-core speed.
+50%
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
677 Pts 1029 Pts Much faster 64-core speed.
+52%
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The 3300X is a 4-core Ryzen CPU. Priced at just $120 USD, it offers far better value to gamers than all the previous Ryzen CPUs. This is great news for potential buyers, but bad luck for gamers that recently spent nearly three times more on the 8-core 3700X. The reduction from eight to four cores results in more efficient caching and higher boost clocks. AMD’s marketing has abruptly broken from the firmly established “moar cores” mantra to a conveniently realistic: four cores are actually okay. Shifting goalposts this quickly reveals an unhealthy focus on first time buyers and a brazen disregard for existing customers. Sales tactics aside, unfortunately the 3300X remains constrained by architectural latency and the associated gaming bottleneck (frame drops). Comparing an overclocked 3300X pegged at 4425 MHz to a stock Intel Core i3-10100 running at 4100 MHz shows that the i3-10100 delivers better gaming performance in four out of five games. The 10100 also includes an iGPU with QuickSync hardware encoding. Since additional cores make little difference to gamers, there are no significant upgrades beyond the 3300X in the Ryzen product stack. In order to achieve better gaming performance, it is necessary to upgrade to a higher tier Intel CPU. Despite the barrage of anonymous hearsay pushed on social media, users will be hard pressed to find actual use cases that favor the 3300X over the i3-10100, especially when the 10100 is not handicapped by 2666 MHz RAM. Gamers are bottlenecked by the Ryzen architecture and desktop users need integrated graphics. [Jun '20 CPUPro]

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The XT series of Ryzen CPUs barely outperform their cheaper X and non-X counterparts: 3600, 3600X, 3800X, 3900X. Outside of encoding workloads such as UserBenchmark 64-core, Cinebench, Blender-CPU and Handbrake-CPU the Ryzen architecture remains limited by relatively high latency and the associated gaming bottleneck (frame drops). Dedicated hardware such as NVENC or QuickSync remains far more efficient than CPU cores for encoding. CPU based encoding is akin to using hair clippers on a lawn. The best value CPU amongst the Ryzen range is the 3300X which is the first design to focus on delivering lower latency, and therefore better performance where users need it, rather than “Moar Coars”. Aside from the army of anonymous influencers on social media (reddit, forums, youtube etc.), users will be hard pressed to find rational arguments that favor the XT variants over their cheaper predecessors. [Jul '20 CPUPro]

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We calculate effective speed which measures real world performance for typical users. Effective speed is adjusted by current prices to yield a value for money rating. Our calculated values are checked against thousands of individual user ratings. The customizable table below combines these factors to bring you the definitive list of top CPUs. [CPUPro]

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Intel Core i5-13600K $269Nvidia RTX 4060 $295Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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