The most powerful among all Xeons in the Sandy Bridge family is the 2690. I tested the 1650 at 4.5 GHz, and in Cyberpunk 2077 with a GTX 1080, the FPS drops were terrible. I also tested the 2680 v2 without overclocking, and despite having two more cores, it seems to be weaker than the 2690. In my opinion, the processor is great. I overclocked the Turbo mode to 3.4 GHz on each core, and in CPU-Z, it reaches 3450 points. In CP2077 with a GTX 1080 at 2k resolution on medium settings, it hardly drops below 60 FPS. Bought it for 13 euros on eBay. Fantastic. [Sep '23Kac3Vielky]
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]
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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