UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i5-8600K

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CSGO Dust 2 1080p Max	251 EFps	280 EFps	Better CSGO EFps. +12%
GTAV Franklin & Lamar 1080p Max	99 EFps	110 EFps	Better GTAV EFps. +11%
Overwatch Temple of Anubis 1080p Max	131 EFps	138 EFps	Slightly Better Overwatch EFps. +5%
PUBG M249 Training 1080p Max	113 EFps	135 EFps	Better PUBG EFps. +19%
Fortnite UserBenchmark Island 1080p Max	128 EFps	133 EFps	+4%

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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: 242^nd / 1442

Gaming 80%

Battleship

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 68%

Battle cruiser

264,837 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 101% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.95 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 79% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg)

Poor: 79% Great: 101%

SPEED RANK: 136^th / 1442

Gaming 91%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 92%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 74%

Battleship


Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		79.7 %			90.7 %	Faster effective speed. +14%


28 May20\|Techpowerup Intel Core i5-10400F Review - Six ...			SotTR 4%, Rage2 4%		6 %	FarC5 24%, BFV 6%, Witcher3 3%, Civ6 12%, ACO 1%, MetroEx 6%, Sekiro 16%, Wolf2 2%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	77.3 Pts		90.1 Pts	Lower memory latency. +17%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	137 Pts	Slightly faster single-core speed. +6%	129 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	257 Pts		257 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	443 Pts		502 Pts	Faster quad-core speed. +13%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	662 Pts	+1%	656 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	87.6 Pts	96.5 Pts	Lower OC memory latency. +10%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	147 Pts	151 Pts	+3%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	289 Pts	302 Pts	+4%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	500 Pts	594 Pts	Faster OC quad-core speed. +19%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	748 Pts	798 Pts	Slightly faster OC octa-core speed. +7%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.02 %		0.5 %	Insanely higher market share. +2,400%
Value Value For Money	94.4 %		103 %	Slightly better value. +9%
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %		78 %	More popular. +11%
Price Price (score)	$150	Cheaper. +13%	$173


Age Newest	47 Months	Much more recent. +40%	78 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +32%	95 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	4 cores		6 cores	Much higher core count. +50%
Threads CPU Processing Threads	8 threads	Much higher thread count. +33%	6 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	7 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +50%	14 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.8 GHz	Slightly faster base frequency. +6%	3.6 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	4.3 GHz		4.3 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	753 Pts		828 Pts	Slightly faster OC 64-core speed. +10%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	677 Pts		681 Pts	+1%


Series CPU Architecture	Zen2	Coffee Lake
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM4	FCLGA1151
Graphics Integrated Graphics	None	UHD 630

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 unlocked hex-core i5-8600K from Intel’s latest Coffee Lake generation of processors is the new flagship of the i5 series, succeeding the Kaby Lake quad-core i5-7600K. The 8th generation of processors brings the largest performance uplift since Sandy Bridge by adding more cores at each of the i3, i5 and i7 product lines. Like the other Coffee Lake processors, the i5-8600K is built upon optimized 14nm architecture, marginally improved upon from Kaby Lake and Skylake. The 8600K has a 95W TDP and a nominal stock clock of 3.6 GHz, which boosts to 4.1 GHz for all six cores, 4.2 GHz for dual/quad and 4.3 GHz for single core. Early benchmarks put the i5-8600K’s effective speed 15% ahead of the i5-7600K. A 50% increase in multi-core speed is explained by two additional cores and thanks to the quad-core clock bump from 4 GHz on the 7600K to 4.2 GHz on the 8600K there is also an additional 5% performance boost across all workloads. All Coffee Lake processors require a 300-series chipset, making a straight CPU upgrade unfeasible despite sharing the same socket as their Z270 predecessors. Even though most games still use less than 4 cores simultaneously, the i5-8600K is a great choice for gamers but for $80 less, the 8350K which is faster than last years 7600K and only marginally weaker for gaming than the 8600K is certainly well worth considering as well. ^{[Oct '17 CPUPro]}

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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