Real World Speed
Performance profile from 38,693 user samples
34,310 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 86% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 72% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
Poor: 72% Great: 86%
SPEED RANK: 236th / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 80%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 87%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 61%
Destroyer
4,383 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 90% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 46% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 0.5 GHz (avg)
Poor: 46% Great: 90%
SPEED RANK: 366th / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 72%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 73%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 68%
Battle cruiser
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
80.1 % Faster effective speed.
+12%
71.5 %
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
88 Pts Lower memory latency.
+25%
70.2 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
122 Pts Faster single-core speed.
+15%
106 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
240 Pts Faster dual-core speed.
+16%
207 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
416 Pts Slightly faster quad-core speed.
+6%
393 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
423 Pts 667 Pts Much faster octa-core speed.
+58%
Memory
OC Memory Latency
94.6 Pts Lower OC memory latency.
+15%
82 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
126 Pts 143 Pts Faster OC single-core speed.
+13%
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
250 Pts 282 Pts Faster OC dual-core speed.
+13%
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
476 Pts 543 Pts Faster OC quad-core speed.
+14%
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
475 Pts 950 Pts Hugely faster OC octa-core speed.
+100%
Market Share
Based on 67,696,477 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.39 % Insanely higher market share.
+3,800%
0.01 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
85 % Much more popular.
+52%
56 %
Age
Newest
60 Months 48+ Months More recent.
+20%
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
474 Pts 1332 Pts Hugely faster OC 64-core speed.
+181%
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
427 Pts 958 Pts Hugely faster 64-core speed.
+124%
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Intel’s Core i3-9100F is a quad-core 9th generation Coffee Lake desktop processor. It features base / boost clocks of 3.6 / 4.2 GHz, 6 MB of cache, a 65W TDP and it ships with a cooler. Gamers should pair the 9100F with a Z390 motherboard and unlock higher XMP RAM speeds. This will deliver up to a 15% fps boost which is well worth it considering that many Z390 boards are available for around $100 USD (here is one of the builds from our EFps test lab). The 9100F has great single core performance coupled with a strong memory sub system. This enables it to deliver excellent all round performance, easily holding its own against far pricier CPUs for the majority of use cases. The heavily hyped 12 threaded 6 core Ryzen 3600, paired with a 2060S, barely pulls ahead in any of the top five games. [Oct '19 CPUPro]

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Ryzen 4000 Mobile CPUs offer benchmark busting multi-core performance on the go, but marketing hype aside, it’s unclear how this will translate to real world performance. Sixteen threads are great for beating benchmarks including UserBenchmark 64-core, Cinebench, Blender-CPU and Handbrake-CPU but gamers need performance in the games that they actually play. At launch, the top GPU available in a 4000 series laptop is the RTX 2060. Since the GPU is largely responsible for overall gaming performance, the Ryzen 4000 laptops will offer mid tier gaming performance at best. Pairing stronger GPUs would be suboptimal because the Ryzen gaming bottleneck becomes increasingly severe with more powerful GPUs. Streamers and media producers, who may have historically benefited from high core counts, are better off using the GPU (NVENC or QuickSync) for encoding. Leading media creation applications including both DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro are largely GPU bound. With low power consumption and high core counts, the 4000 range, on paper at least, is a perfect fit for the datacenter. AMD should focus on delivering a platform that offers performance where end users actually need it rather than targeting inexperienced gamers with the same old "moar cores" mantra. From a gamer’s perspective, the best feature of the 4000 series laptops is the absence of the equally hyped 5000 series GPUs. Prospective gaming laptop buyers will find lower latency (and therefore better gaming) CPUs combined with faster GPUs at similar price points. [Mar '20 CPUPro]

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Processor Rankings (Price vs Performance) April 2024 CPU Rankings

We calculate effective speed which measures real world performance for typical users. Effective speed is adjusted by current prices to yield a value for money rating. Our calculated values are checked against thousands of individual user ratings. The customizable table below combines these factors to bring you the definitive list of top CPUs. [CPUPro]

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273Nvidia RTX 4060 $300Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186Nvidia RTX 4070 $409Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52
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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16
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