IntelBX80684I38350K
AMD100-100000593WOF

4 Cores, 4 Threads @4.0GHz, Coffee Lake.
Release date: Q3 2017.

6 Cores, 12 Threads @4.7GHz, Zen4.
Release date: Q3 2022.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 29,804 user samples
23,493 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 93% Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 68% Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 1.65 GHz (avg)
Poor: 68% Great: 93%
SPEED RANK: 214th / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 82%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 88%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 62%
Destroyer
6,311 User Benchmarks
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: 41st / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 110%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 113%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 106%
UFO
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
81.7 % 110 % Much faster effective speed.
+35%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
89 Pts Slightly lower memory latency.
+9%
81.7 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
123 Pts 202 Pts Much faster single-core speed.
+64%
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
245 Pts 392 Pts Much faster dual-core speed.
+60%
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
428 Pts 746 Pts Much faster quad-core speed.
+74%
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
442 Pts 1166 Pts Hugely faster octa-core speed.
+164%
Memory
OC Memory Latency
96.6 Pts Slightly lower OC memory latency.
+6%
91.2 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
146 Pts 213 Pts Much faster OC single-core speed.
+46%
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
290 Pts 419 Pts Much faster OC dual-core speed.
+44%
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
544 Pts 821 Pts Much faster OC quad-core speed.
+51%
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
557 Pts 1254 Pts Hugely faster OC octa-core speed.
+125%
Market Share
Based on 67,778,142 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.03 % 0.29 % Hugely higher market share.
+867%
Value
Value For Money
98.8 % 122 % Better value.
+23%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
55 % 82 % Much more popular.
+49%
Price
Price (score)
$139 Cheaper.
+29%
$195
Age
Newest
79 Months 19 Months Much more recent.
+76%
TDP
Thermal Design Power (TDP)
91 Watts More energy efficient.
+13%
105 Watts
Cores
CPU Processing Cores
4 cores 6 cores Much higher core count.
+50%
Threads
CPU Processing Threads
4 threads 12 threads Hugely higher thread count.
+200%
Lithography
Manufacturing process
14 nm 5 nm Much newer manufacturing.
+64%
Base Clock
Base Clock Speed
4 GHz 4.7 GHz Faster base frequency.
+17%
Turbo Clock
Turbo Clock Speed
4 GHz 5.3 GHz Much faster turbo frequency.
+33%
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
545 Pts 1504 Pts Hugely faster OC 64-core speed.
+176%
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
445 Pts 1429 Pts Hugely faster 64-core speed.
+221%
Series
CPU Architecture
Coffee Lake Zen4
Socket
Motherboard Socket
FCLGA1151 AM5
Graphics
Integrated Graphics
UHD 630 RDNA2
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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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