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Real World Speed
Performance profile from 29,880 user samples
27,559 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 128% Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 5.3 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 117% Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg)
Poor: 117% Great: 128%
SPEED RANK: 18th / 1407
Gaming
Gaming 122%
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Desktop
Desktop 121%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 133%
UFO
2,321 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 134% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 112% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg)
Poor: 112% Great: 134%
SPEED RANK: 17th / 1407
Gaming
Gaming 122%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 124%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 132%
UFO
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
122 % 122 % +1%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
83.9 Pts 89.9 Pts Slightly lower memory latency.
+7%
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
213 Pts 218 Pts +2%
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
427 Pts 430 Pts +1%
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
852 Pts +3% 828 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
1,454 Pts 1,541 Pts Slightly faster octa-core speed.
+6%
Memory
OC Memory Latency
92.7 Pts 99 Pts Slightly lower OC memory latency.
+7%
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
227 Pts 229 Pts +1%
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
454 Pts 459 Pts +1%
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
905 Pts 910 Pts +1%
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
1,568 Pts 1,777 Pts Faster OC octa-core speed.
+13%
Market Share
Based on 70,572,307 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.42 % 0.9 % Hugely higher market share.
+114%
Value
Value For Money
116 % Better value.
+13%
103 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
94 % Much more popular.
+62%
58 %
Price
Price (score)
€293 Much cheaper.
+37%
€469
Age
Newest
32 Months 8+ Months Much more recent.
+75%
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
2,611 Pts Slightly faster OC 64-core speed.
+9%
2,391 Pts
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
2,437 Pts Faster 64-core speed.
+12%
2,170 Pts

Intel’s 13th gen. Raptor Lake CPUs offer around 10% faster gaming and 45% faster multi-core performance than their predecessors. The new CPUs are compatible with DDR4 memory and Z690/B660 ($150) motherboards. New high-end gaming builders need look no further than the 13600K. The 13600K beats AMD’s flagship 7950X in gaming and almost matches the 7900X in multi-core performance. Extreme workstation users may find value in the 13700K or 13900K. Gamers on a tight budget can save $40 USD with a 13600KF which is a 13600K without integrated graphics. Although Ryzen 7000 has weaker multi-core, weaker single-core, higher platform costs and higher unit prices AMD have a 3D joker up their sleeve (7800X3D est. 2023). Via “Advanced Marketing” on youtube, forums, reddit, and twitter AMD will demonstrate that their upcoming CPU is the “best in the world” and offer “proof” by way of a small handful of obscure workloads. Games that few people play e.g. (Factorio, SotTR) will be cherry picked, video footage of the gameplay/settings won’t be provided and frame drops will be conveniently ignored. This playbook has easily outsold Intel in recent years but with every overhyped release, consumers lose trust in AMD. Based on social media/press coverage, you would never guess that the combined market share for all of AMD’s Radeon 5000 and 6000 GPUs amongst PC gamers is just 2.12% (Steam stats). Meanwhile Nvidia’s RTX 2060 alone accounts for a whopping 5.03%. Largely thanks to marketing incompetence, Intel is existentially motivated to deliver material annual performance improvements. Consumers can look forward to Meteor Lake (14th gen) in less than a years time. [Oct '22 CPUPro]

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AMD’s 7800X3D and 9800X3D CPUs, priced over $400 USD, are widely marketed as “the best gaming CPUs in the world”. This is demonstrated at low resolutions with a 4090-class GPU, whilst conveniently ignoring 0.1% lows (frame drops). Under cherry-picked cache-bound conditions the X3D chips do excel, but there’s a trade-off: the additional cache results in 6% lower boost clocks and 50% to 80% higher prices than their regular counterparts (9700X and 7700X). As with their Radeon GPUs, AMD is looking to drive demand through advanced marketing rather than delivering real-world performance. While Nvidia has effectively countered AMD’s marketing in the GPU space, Intel's marketers remain asleep (terminally?) at the wheel. Nevertheless, the 13600K and 14600K still deliver almost unparalleled real-world gaming performance for around $200 USD. Spending more on a gaming CPU is often pointless, as games are normally limited by the GPU. Without significant improvements in social media marketing: forums, reddit, youtube etc., Intel now face the very real risk of bankruptcy (third worst-performing S&P500 stock from Jan to Aug 2024). Since this summary was published just two days ago, hundreds of twitter threads, thousands of “pcmasterrace” reddit posts, multiple magazine articles, and several youtube videos have emerged in unanimous support for the $480 USD 9800X3D. All of these supposedly disinterested actors are working the weekend to convince you to pay their favourite billion-dollar brand an extra $280 USD this holiday season. [Nov '24 CPUPro]

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Intel Core i5-12600K €178Nvidia RTX 4060 €308WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB €153
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