The Core i7-6850K is one of four new Broadwell-E prosumer CPUs. This model has six cores with base and turbo frequencies of 3.6 and 4.0 GHz respectively. The 6850K is based on the 14 nm Broadwell-E architecture. It has a TDP of 140 watts, 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes and no integrated graphics. Because of its relatively high MSRP of around $700, this CPU only makes sense for niche use cases which could include top end graphics design or video production workstations. Comparing the 6850K and 6700K shows that for typical desktop use the 6850K only offers a gain of around 10% for a whopping two fold price increase. This is because desktop computing largely depends on single core performance and the Skylake i7-6700K is both clocked higher and has higher IPC due to its one generation lead over the 6850K. [Jun '16CPUPro]
Launched 7 February 2020, this multithreaded gargantuan comes with whopping 64 core and 128 thread and costs $3990 to be exact. This CPU has core clock of 2.9GHz and has max boost clock of 4.3GHz which is high for CPU with huge amount of cores and has 280W TDP which would shows how efficient this CPU is. The single core performance is not too mind boggling but the multi core performance blows all other single socket CPU in existence. Safe to say, this CPU poses incredible value for content creator, data center and regular server users alike for amount of multithreaded performance you get at that price point. [Feb '20ColdSpy]
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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