Intel’s 16-core flagship Alder Lake i9-12900K processor delivers a staggering performance improvement over it's predecessor (+70% 64-core). It features a new hybrid architecture which combines eight hyper-threaded performance cores with eight efficiency cores for a total of 24 threads. Alder Lake CPUs will require a new Z690 chipset which supports DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0. At an MRSP of $590 USD, the i9-12900K is aimed at power users who demand the best of the best. That said, Intel’s 10-core 12600K matches the 12900K’s performance for the majority of consumer use cases at a 50% price discount. [Nov '21CPUPro]
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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