UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i7-2600K

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Best Bench: 83% Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 56% Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 27,195,430 GHz (avg)

Poor: 56% Great: 83%

SPEED RANK: 390^th / 1442

Gaming 71%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 55%

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Best Bench: 89% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 69% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 69% Great: 89%

SPEED RANK: 242^nd / 1442

Gaming 80%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 68%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		70.6 %			79.7 %	Faster effective speed. +13%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	87 Pts	Lower memory latency. +13%	77.3 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	91.8 Pts		137 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +49%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	173 Pts		257 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +49%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	295 Pts		443 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +50%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	424 Pts		662 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +56%


Memory OC Memory Latency	96 Pts	Slightly lower OC memory latency. +10%	87.6 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	116 Pts		147 Pts	Faster OC single-core speed. +27%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	226 Pts		289 Pts	Faster OC dual-core speed. +28%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	384 Pts		500 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +30%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	549 Pts		748 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +36%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.19 %	Hugely higher market share. +850%	0.02 %
Value Value For Money	67.9 %		94.4 %	Much better value. +39%
User Rating UBM User Rating	76 %	Slightly more popular. +9%	70 %
Price Price (score)	$319		$150	Much cheaper. +53%


Age Newest	159 Months	47 Months	Much more recent. +70%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watts	65 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +32%
Cores CPU Processing Cores	4 cores	4 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	8 threads	8 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	32 nm	7 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +78%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.4 GHz	3.8 GHz	Faster base frequency. +12%
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	3.8 GHz	4.3 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +13%
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	558 Pts	753 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +35%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	437 Pts	677 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +55%


Series CPU Architecture	Sandy Bridge	Zen2
Socket Motherboard Socket	LGA1155	AM4
Graphics Integrated Graphics	HD 3000	None

The i7-2600K Sandy Bridge processor is two generations old and nearly three years out of date. The numerous owners of this superb processor should feel in no hurry to upgrade as it's still one of the fastest consumer processors, even by today's standards. The benchmark figures indicate that in terms of real-world performance this processor is only 5% slower than the third generation Ivy Bridge i7-3770K, not bad considering its age. That said new buyers will find both better energy efficiency and marginal performance improvements elsewhere. ^{[Feb '12 CPUPro]}

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The 3300X is a 4-core Ryzen CPU. Priced at just $120 USD, it offers far better value to gamers than all the previous Ryzen CPUs. This is great news for potential buyers, but bad luck for gamers that recently spent nearly three times more on the 8-core 3700X. The reduction from eight to four cores results in more efficient caching and higher boost clocks. AMD’s marketing has abruptly broken from the firmly established “moar cores” mantra to a conveniently realistic: four cores are actually okay. Shifting goalposts this quickly reveals an unhealthy focus on first time buyers and a brazen disregard for existing customers. Sales tactics aside, unfortunately the 3300X remains constrained by architectural latency and the associated gaming bottleneck (frame drops). Comparing an overclocked 3300X pegged at 4425 MHz to a stock Intel Core i3-10100 running at 4100 MHz shows that the i3-10100 delivers better gaming performance in four out of five games. The 10100 also includes an iGPU with QuickSync hardware encoding. Since additional cores make little difference to gamers, there are no significant upgrades beyond the 3300X in the Ryzen product stack. In order to achieve better gaming performance, it is necessary to upgrade to a higher tier Intel CPU. Despite the barrage of anonymous hearsay pushed on social media, users will be hard pressed to find actual use cases that favor the 3300X over the i3-10100, especially when the 10100 is not handicapped by 2666 MHz RAM. Gamers are bottlenecked by the Ryzen architecture and desktop users need integrated graphics. ^{[Jun '20 CPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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