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CSGO Dust 2 1080p Max	251 EFps	287 EFps	Better CSGO EFps. +14%
GTAV Franklin & Lamar 1080p Max	99 EFps	109 EFps	Better GTAV EFps. +10%
Overwatch Temple of Anubis 1080p Max	131 EFps	137 EFps	+5%
PUBG M249 Training 1080p Max	113 EFps	136 EFps	Better PUBG EFps. +20%
Fortnite UserBenchmark Island 1080p Max	128 EFps	145 EFps	Better Fortnite EFps. +13%

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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: 242^nd / 1442

Gaming 80%

Battleship

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 68%

Battle cruiser

550,833 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 105% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 82% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg)

Poor: 82% Great: 105%

SPEED RANK: 98^th / 1442

Gaming 97%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 97%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 89%

Aircraft carrier


Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		79.7 %			96.9 %	Faster effective speed. +22%


05 Nov20\|Techpowerup AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Review	SotTR 4%	9 %	FarC5 24%, BFV 11%, Rage2 0%, Witcher3 3%, Civ6 18%, ACO 9%, MetroEx 5%, Sekiro 17%, Wolf2 2%
28 May20\|Techpowerup Intel Core i5-10400F Review - Six ...	SotTR 5%	9 %	FarC5 28%, BFV 10%, Rage2 0%, Witcher3 3%, Civ6 18%, ACO 12%, MetroEx 5%, Sekiro 17%, Wolf2 2%
21 May20\|Optimum Tech Intel i5-10600K Review - 6-core Ga...		19 %	FarC5 35%, OverW 13%, SotTR 32%, RDR2 8%, StarWJFO 37%, CSGO 0%, R6S 6%
28 May20\|Gamers Nexus Best CPUs of 2020 So Far (Gaming, ...		19 %^OC	SotTR 24%^OC, F119 16%^OC, TWarTKC 16%^OC
28 May20\|Gamers Nexus Best CPUs of 2020 So Far (Gaming, ...		17 %	SotTR 26%, F119 13%, TWarTKC 12%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	77.3 Pts	90.9 Pts	Lower memory latency. +18%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	137 Pts	140 Pts	+2%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	257 Pts	279 Pts	Slightly faster dual-core speed. +9%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	443 Pts	552 Pts	Faster quad-core speed. +25%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	662 Pts	964 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +46%


Memory OC Memory Latency	87.6 Pts	96.6 Pts	Lower OC memory latency. +10%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	147 Pts	155 Pts	Slightly faster OC single-core speed. +5%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	289 Pts	309 Pts	Slightly faster OC dual-core speed. +7%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	500 Pts	618 Pts	Faster OC quad-core speed. +24%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	748 Pts	1123 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +50%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.03 %		1.92 %	Insanely higher market share. +6,300%
Value Value For Money	94.4 %		99.5 %	Slightly better value. +5%
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %		92 %	Much more popular. +31%
Price Price (score)	$150	Much cheaper. +40%	$252


Age Newest	47 Months	More recent. +29%	66 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +32%	95 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	4 cores		8 cores	Hugely higher core count. +100%
Threads CPU Processing Threads	8 threads		8 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		4.9 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +14%
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	753 Pts		1145 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +52%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	677 Pts		1001 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +48%


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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Intel’s Core i7-9700K is an unlocked 9th generation Coffee Lake CPU. It is an 8 core, 8 thread processor. The 9700K features 12 MB of cache, a 95W TDP and Intel UHD 630 graphics. Like the other 9th generation chips, it is compatible with Intel’s new Z390 chipset as well as last years Z370 chipset (with an updated BIOS). The 9700K has stock base / boost clocks of 3.6 / 4.6 GHz and a single core boost of 4.9 GHz (compared to 3.6, 4.7 and 5.0 GHz for the flagship 9900K). This translates to almost identical single, quad and octa core performance between the 9900K and 9700K. Mainstream PC games do not benefit from more than six threads, so at $350 (25% cheaper than the 9900K), the 9700K offers far better value for money to gamers. That said gamers have very little reason not to consider the i5-9600K which, when overclocked, offers almost equivalent performance at a 35% discount. ^{[Oct '18 CPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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