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Best Bench: 120% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 101% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 101% Great: 120%

SPEED RANK: 41^st / 1442

Gaming 110%

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Desktop 113%

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Workstation 106%

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Best Bench: 92% Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 74% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 0.55 GHz (avg)

Poor: 74% Great: 92%

SPEED RANK: 192^nd / 1442

Gaming 84%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 79%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		110 %	Much faster effective speed. +31%		84.1 %


20 Oct22\|HardwareLUXX The Dino Intel is not yet extinct:...		25 %	Control 24%, SpiderM 4%, CPunk 6%, RiftB 54%, TWarTroy 41%, F122 35%, DoomE 9%
20 Oct22\|Techpowerup Intel Core i5-13600K Review - Best...		27 %	Forza5 12%, AoE4 30%, Bord3 37%, FarC6 30%, WatchDL 6%, BFV 45%, CPunk 5%, EldenR 15%, Civ6 62%, CSGO 82%, DoomE 5%			RDR2 0%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	81.7 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +6%	76.9 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	202 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +49%	136 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	392 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +48%	264 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	746 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +52%	490 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1166 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +44%	808 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	91.2 Pts	+5%	87.1 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	213 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +46%	146 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	419 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +46%	287 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	821 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +48%	553 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1254 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +43%	878 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.21 %	Much higher market share. +50%	0.14 %
Value Value For Money	120 %	Much better value. +32%	90.8 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	82 %	More popular. +17%	70 %
Price Price (score)	$208	+1%	$210


Age Newest	18 Months	Much more recent. +68%	57 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	105 Watts		95 Watts	Slightly more energy efficient. +10%
Cores CPU Processing Cores	6 cores		6 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	12 threads		12 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	5 nm	Newer manufacturing. +29%	7 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	4.7 GHz	Faster base frequency. +24%	3.8 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	5.3 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +20%	4.4 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	1504 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +36%	1106 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	1429 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +41%	1017 Pts


Series CPU Architecture	Zen4	Zen2
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM5	AM4
Graphics Integrated Graphics	RDNA2	None

Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. ^{[Sep '22 CPUPro]}

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Early Q3 of 2019 sees the release of the new Ryzen 5 3600X: a hex-core, 12-thread processor. AMD are releasing five new CPUs based on their latest Zen 2 microarchitecture which delivers approximately 13% better IPC than the previous 12nm Zen+. For workstation builds the 3600X is viable, however, the $200 USD Ryzen 5 3600 represents a far better value proposition. The additional $40 USD for the 3600X basically buys a better cooler (Spire vs Stealth). This allows for an extra 200 MHz of extra base and boost clock: 3.8 / 4.4 GHz on the 3600X vs 3.6 / 4.2 GHz on the 3600, this translates to approximately 2% higher overclocked performance for 20% more money. Neither of the stock coolers on the 3600 or 3600X are as effective as a $20 USD aftermarket cooler such as the Gammaxx 400. The 3600 with a Gammaxx 400 outperforms the 3600X with a Spire cooler and when both use a Gammaxx 400 they are more or less identical. The 3600X SKU is basically a marketing gimmick designed to milk unsuspecting consumers. Comparing the 3600X to Intel’s overclocked flagship i5-9600K shows that although the 3600X has 29% faster 64-core speed, it is around 11% worse for gaming (sub eight core performance). Additionally, the 3600X's memory controller, although significantly improved over previous Ryzen iterations, still has limited bandwidth and high latency which can also impact gaming. The arrival of Zen 2 marks the end of the "Sandy Bridge (i5-2500K)" era, Intel can no longer rely exclusively on their single-core advantage to dominate the market, they must also compete on price. ^{[Jul '19 CPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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