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Best Bench: 103% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 5.15 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 82% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg)

Poor: 82% Great: 103%

SPEED RANK: 121^st / 1442

Gaming 93%

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 77%

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Best Bench: 120% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.35 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 97% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.9 GHz (avg)

Poor: 97% Great: 120%

SPEED RANK: 41^st / 1442

Gaming 110%

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Desktop 113%

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Workstation 105%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		93.2 %			110 %	Faster effective speed. +18%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	91 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +8%	84 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	135 Pts		200 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +48%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	268 Pts		389 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +45%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	525 Pts		733 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +40%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	688 Pts		1152 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +67%


Memory OC Memory Latency	96.5 Pts	+2%	94.7 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	153 Pts		215 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +41%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	306 Pts		421 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +38%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	604 Pts		835 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +38%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	822 Pts		1285 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +56%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	1.16 %	Hugely higher market share. +330%	0.27 %
Value Value For Money	108 %		120 %	Better value. +11%
User Rating UBM User Rating	92 %	More popular. +12%	82 %
Price Price (score)	$164	Cheaper. +20%	$205


Age Newest	65 Months		18 Months	Much more recent. +72%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watts	Slightly more energy efficient. +10%	105 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	6 cores		6 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	6 threads		12 threads	Hugely higher thread count. +100%
Lithography Manufacturing process	14 nm		5 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +64%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.7 GHz		4.7 GHz	Faster base frequency. +27%
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	4.6 GHz		5.3 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +15%
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	848 Pts		1530 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +80%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	717 Pts		1426 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +99%


Series CPU Architecture	Coffee Lake	Zen4
Socket Motherboard Socket	FCLGA1151	AM5
Graphics Integrated Graphics	UHD 630	RDNA2

The hex-core i5-9600K is third in Intel’s line-up of 9th generation Coffee Lake CPUs. It has a TDP of 95W and requires an aftermarket cooler (such as the $20 GAMMAXX 400). The 9600K was designed to be overclocked. Once this is enabled in the BIOS (requires a Z-series motherboard), the 9600K runs 10% faster. In terms of performance, the i5-9600K is almost unbeatable for desktop users and it has sufficient multi-core performance to handle all but the most demanding workstation tasks. For CPU encoding (Cinebench, Blender, Handbrake etc.) the Ryzen 3000 series offers great 64-core performance. For example the overclocked Ryzen 3600 is approximately 13% worse for gaming, desktop and normal consumer workloads but it is 27% faster for 64-core processing. CPU encoding is akin to using hair clippers on a lawn, encoding tasks are far better performed by dedicated hardware such an NVENC or QuickSync. At stock clocks the i5-9600K is around 8% slower than Intel’s flagship i9-9900K but when both are overclocked, the 9600K closes the gaming gap to within two or three percent. Considering that the 9900K is the fastest gaming processor available, and almost twice the price of the 9600K, this is no small feat. The i5-9600K is aimed squarely at gamers who are not willing to compromise on performance but don't want to pay more than they need to. ^{[Oct '18 CPUPro]}

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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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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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