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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: 243^rd / 1445

Gaming 80%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 68%

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Best Bench: 85% Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 57% Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg)

Poor: 57% Great: 85%

SPEED RANK: 356^th / 1445

Gaming 72%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 55%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		79.7 %	Faster effective speed. +10%		72.4 %


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	77.3 Pts		83.3 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +8%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	137 Pts	Faster single-core speed. +25%	110 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	257 Pts	Faster dual-core speed. +18%	218 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	443 Pts	Faster quad-core speed. +26%	352 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	662 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +77%	373 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	87.6 Pts		95.2 Pts	Slightly lower OC memory latency. +9%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	147 Pts	Slightly faster OC single-core speed. +8%	136 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	289 Pts	Slightly faster OC dual-core speed. +7%	269 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	500 Pts	Slightly faster OC quad-core speed. +10%	455 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	748 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +57%	476 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.02 %		0.46 %	Insanely higher market share. +2,200%
Value Value For Money	94.4 %	Slightly better value. +6%	89.2 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %		74 %	Slightly more popular. +6%
Price Price (score)	$150		$130	Cheaper. +13%


Age Newest	48 Months	Much more recent. +54%	105 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watts	More energy efficient. +29%	91 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	4 cores		4 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	8 threads	Hugely higher thread count. +100%	4 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	7 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +50%	14 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.8 GHz	Slightly faster base frequency. +9%	3.5 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	4.3 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +10%	3.9 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	753 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +56%	484 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	677 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +79%	378 Pts


Series CPU Architecture	Zen2	Skylake
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM4	FCLGA1151
Graphics Integrated Graphics	None	HD 530

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 Intel Core i5-6600K is based on the new "Skylake" 14nm manufacturing process. Sporting 4 physical cores with base/turbo clocks of 3.5/3.9 GHz the 6600K and its predecessor, the 4690K share the same basic configuration and disappointingly, offer similar performance. Comparing the 6600K and 6700K shows that the 6700K has faster multi and single core performance. The improved multi core performance is due to Hyperthreading which is the key differentiator for the i7-6700K. The gap in single core performance can largely be eliminated by overclocking the i5-6600K so although the stock effective speed is significantly higher on the 6700K, this gap diminishes significantly when both processors are overclocked. At a 30% discount, the 6600K is the better value gaming CPU. ^{[Aug '15 CPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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