UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Core i7-8700K

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CSGO Dust 2 1080p Max	233 EFps		284 EFps	Better CSGO EFps. +22%
GTAV Franklin & Lamar 1080p Max	105 EFps		106 EFps	+1%
Overwatch Temple of Anubis 1080p Max	130 EFps		139 EFps	Slightly Better Overwatch EFps. +7%
PUBG M249 Training 1080p Max	124 EFps		139 EFps	Better PUBG EFps. +12%
Fortnite UserBenchmark Island 1080p Max	141 EFps	+1%	139 EFps

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Best Bench: 98% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 77% Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 1.35 GHz (avg)

Poor: 77% Great: 98%

SPEED RANK: 150^th / 1442

Gaming 88%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 90%

Aircraft carrier

746,287 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 100% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 5.05 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 76% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg)

Poor: 76% Great: 100%

SPEED RANK: 148^th / 1442

Gaming 88%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 80%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		88.1 %			88.4 %	+0%


10 Mar21\|HardwareLUXX Processor non grata: Rocket Lake-S...	3 %	SotTR 9%, MetroEx 3%, Divis2 9%		BFV 10%
05 Nov20\|Techpowerup AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Review		SotTR 3%, Rage2 2%, Civ6 4%	3 %	FarC5 14%, BFV 2%, Witcher3 2%, ACO 8%, MetroEx 5%, Sekiro 10%, Wolf2 1%
05 Nov20\|Techpowerup AMD Ryzen 5 5800X Review		SotTR 3%, Rage2 2%, Civ6 4%	3 %	FarC5 14%, BFV 2%, Witcher3 2%, ACO 8%, MetroEx 5%, Sekiro 10%, Wolf2 1%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	76.4 Pts		90.1 Pts	Lower memory latency. +18%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	145 Pts	Faster single-core speed. +13%	128 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	283 Pts	Faster dual-core speed. +14%	249 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	535 Pts	Faster quad-core speed. +15%	466 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	942 Pts	Faster octa-core speed. +22%	770 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	88.9 Pts		96.5 Pts	Slightly lower OC memory latency. +9%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	153 Pts	+3%	148 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	303 Pts	+4%	292 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	588 Pts	Slightly faster OC quad-core speed. +5%	558 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1051 Pts	Faster OC octa-core speed. +18%	892 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.03 %	1.3 %	Insanely higher market share. +4,233%
Value Value For Money	79.7 %	98.7 %	Better value. +24%
User Rating UBM User Rating	55 %	81 %	Much more popular. +47%
Price Price (score)	$399	$186	Much cheaper. +53%


Age Newest	45+ Months	Much more recent. +42%	78 Months
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	1535 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +34%	1147 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	1426 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +47%	971 Pts

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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The i7-8700K is Intel’s latest, top of the range, 8th generation Coffee Lake processor. Like Kaby Lake and Sky Lake before that, Coffee Lake is based on Intel’s 14nm architecture which has been slightly optimized on each iteration. Following AMD’s modus operandi, Intel has upped the cores and threads across the range of their CPUs. In previous generations, a 6-core processor would have been a high-end desk-top (HEDT) processor, however the i7-8700K is the first Intel CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads to be classified (and priced) as a mainstream consumer processor. Specifically, the i7-8700K features a base clock speed of 3.7 GHz which boosts to 4.7 GHz (4.5 GHz for the previous generation i7-7700k), 12MB of smart (L3) cache and 2 channels of DDR4 RAM. The majority of the performance improvements over the 7th generation stem from the higher core count which results in a 50% increase in multi-core speed between the i7-7700k and i7-8700k. A new motherboard will need to be factored into the budget when upgrading to the 8700K as it requires a new Intel Z370 chipset which has supposedly been designed to better deliver power to CPUs with a greater number of cores. Also available in this latest release of CPUs is the 6 core 6 thread i5-8600k which is a more rational option (around $100 cheaper) for the vast majority of users that don’t require hyper-threading. Sandy bridge owners can finally justify an upgrade but with the next iteration of AMD's Zen architecture just around the corner the CPU market will be a lot faster moving now that Intel, once again, has to compete. ^{[Sep '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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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