In 2019, the desktop processor market became interesting. Intel dominated here for many years, but AMD released Ryzen 7 - direct competitors to Intel i7 models. Then came the Ryzen 3 and 5 series of punches against Intel i3 and i5 - and finishing off the competitor with
Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X sledgehammers . However, these monsters are not for the gaming market, but for other HEDT applications.
With the 24/32-core Threadripper, AMD has become a technology leader. Intel can not answer anything to the fastest AMD processors, but is trying to compete in the second tier of cheaper CPUs. To do this, Intel had to greatly reduce prices. Intel also continues to manipulate its compiler, which
slows down the execution of programs on alternative processors (see the Intel Compiler Cheating section below).
What now? What are the best gaming CPUs in different price categories? In late November and early December 2019,
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Here are the recommendations of AnandTech, which divided the gaming market into six concise segments (prices are current at the time of writing):
These recommendations try to find the best price-performance ratio.
With a winner in the top category is another story. Intel announced that the 9900KS will only be released for a limited time. An octa-core CPU with a clock frequency of up to 5 GHz can now be found for sale at approximately $ 600, and the wholesale price of Intel in batches of 1000 pieces is $ 513. Experts warn that the chip is very hot (heat up to 172 watts at the peak), it is better to fork out for an expensive cooling system.
On 3DNews they
write that the whole story with the appearance of the Core i9-9900KS on the market from the very beginning evokes a sense of deja vu. "Why? Yes, very simply, we found similar events sixteen years ago when AMD released its revolutionary Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processors with Hammer microarchitecture. Then, in order to repulse these new products, Intel urgently organized the release of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors equipped with a 2 megabyte L3 cache, which were whipped up from the Xeon MP server chips. Now, of course, the situation is developing in a slightly different scenario, but the overall plot outline has remained the same. Not having the opportunity to respond symmetrically to the cheeky creeps of a competitor, Intel twists out as best it can and instead of a new product family offers temporary flagship processors "quick response". The Core i9-9900KS is just such a cobbled-up response from the available materials to the third-generation Ryzen. ”
It is clear why the Core i9-9900KS is released in a limited edition. This is a special overclocked version of the Core i9-9900K, built on selected semiconductor crystals that are capable of operating at even higher clock speeds. In this case, 5 GHz. By definition, there are a limited number of “selected” crystals.
As an alternative, you can look at the base i9-9900K (wholesale price $ 488) or at a competitor from AMD - the flagship Ryzen 9 3950X processor on the Zen 2 architecture. Although it costs more ($ 749), it is a new generation processor: 16-core CPU manufactured by the 7 nm process technology, rather than the old Intel 14 nm process.
Ryzen 9 3950X may be inferior to Intel processors in single-threaded performance tests, but due to the larger number of cores, it effectively performs other tasks in the background. This makes sense: today, many gamers simultaneously run chat programs with colleagues, video broadcasts, and other applications. So not only gaming performance is important, but also multithreading.
Sales of the Ryzen 9 3950X began on November 25, 2019 (in Japan on November 30), and immediately caused an unprecedented stir. Japanese media reported that the lines in stores lined up a few hours before the opening, and on the first day,
stocks of Ryzen 9 3950X were sold out .
Queue in front of Computer Shop ARK in Tokyo, September 30, 2019In addition to the top category, AMD processors are recommended in all other segments, starting with the cheapest, dual-core AMD Athlon 3000G with integrated Vega 3 graphics for the price of only $ 49.
CPU hierarchy in games
PC Gamer has published
a performance rating of different CPUs in games with the top-end RTX 2080 Ti graphics card.
Below is the
CPU hierarchy according to Tom's Hardware. Processors are sorted by gaming performance. Unfortunately, recent changes in tests and security patches for the CPU have affected the results, so there are many gaps in the table. For many CPUs, old results are indicated, where the maximum result corresponds to a score of 100%, and the rest were evaluated relative to it.
In general, the table is sorted by average performance in games (there were eight games in the test suite), some cheaper processors cost higher than more expensive ones.
Also indicated is the performance rating in applications. The test suite included archivers, HandBrake, Blender, and Adobe Creative Cloud Suite.
However, the results of benchmarks should be treated critically.
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-10 Amazon AMD:
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 6 — $189,99
- AMD Ryzen 5 2600 — $119,99
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X — $189,99
- AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Radeon Vega 8 — $77,98
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700 — $167,39
- AMD Ryzen 5 2600X — $149,00
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 8 — $309,99
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 6 — $239,99
- AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, 12 — $579,99
- AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, 8 — $379,99
11- Intel — Core i9-9900K $489,99.