The chip comes with eight P-cores that support hyper-threading, and eight single-threaded E-cores for a total of 24 threads. The P-cores have a 3. Meanwhile, the E-cores have a 2. This K has a W PBP base and W MTP peak power rating, but we recorded considerably lower power consumption than its prior-gen counterpart, and you get industry-leading performance in exchange.
You'll need to buy a capable cooler for the chip, and you'll also need a new series motherboard. You can find a wide selection of high-end motherboards that support DDR5 memory, and although you'll only find lower-end and mid-range DDR4 motherboards, there's still plenty of selection available. High end desktop processors have long offered the ultimate in performance, as long as you were willing to pay the price.
Aside from high MSRPs, the chips also require expensive accommodations, like beefy motherboards and the added cost of fully populating quad-channel memory controllers. Add in the inevitable trade-offs, like reduced performance in lightly-threaded applications and games, and any cost-conscious users who could benefit from the threaded horsepower of a HEDT chip just settle for mainstream offerings. AMD's Ryzen 9 X, with 16 cores and 32 threads, expands on its predecessors' mission of bringing HEDT-class performance to mainstream motherboards, lowering the bar for entry.
We generally don't recommend HEDT processors for enthusiasts that are only interested in gaming. Gamers are best served by mainstream processors with fewer cores and higher clocks that are often faster in games; the Ryzen 9 X also falls into the same category - AMD's lesser series models are a better value for gamers. However, if you're after a chip and platform that can do serious work seriously fast , but still be nimble enough to deliver high-refresh gameplay at the end of the day, the Ryzen 9 X fits the bill like no other CPU before it.
In threaded work, the Core iK is 2. The Core iK has eight P-cores high-performance and four E-cores Efficiency , for a total of 20 threads. The P-cores run at a 3. Still, we recorded considerably lower power consumption than its prior-gen counterpart, and you get ultra-competitive performance in exchange.
The core thread Ryzen 9 X is rated for a 3. The X offers the ultimate in gaming performance - it is the uncontested gaming chip on the market, but it is a bit overkill if gaming is all you do. However, if you feel the need for speed in productivity workloads, this chip's 12 cores will chew through those workloads with aplomb.
The Ryzen 9 X drops into existing series and series motherboards. You'll need to bring your own cooler, and the bigger the better - cooling definitely has an impact on performance with the higher-end Ryzen processors. However, if you're looking at the no-compromise chip for gaming, this is your chip. The chip comes with six P-cores that support hyper-threading that operate at a 2.
The Core i serves up solid performance in all manner of threaded productivity applications, and its snappy single-threaded performance beats even the fastest Ryzen processors. Additionally, the Core i delivers incredible levels of gaming performance but at a much lower price point than any comparable AMD processor, setting a new bar for budget gaming chips. Luckily, Intel's partners now have B- and H-series motherboards available, and a B motherboard plus Core i CPU will make a killer gaming combo.
Read More: Intel Core i Review. The Ryzen 3 X is a hard chip to find because it is simply such a great deal. The chip unlocks a new level of performance for budget gamers with four cores and eight threads that can push low- to mid-range graphics cards to their fullest.
This new processor wields the Zen 2 architecture paired with the 7nm process to push performance to new heights while enabling new features for low-end processors, like access to the speedy PCIe 4.
The X's four cores tick at a 3. AMD includes a bundled Wraith Spire cooler with the processor. Better still, if you're having trouble getting your hands on a new graphics card, this chip's onboard graphics will let you get your computer up and running even without dedicated graphics. Meanwhile, the seven Radeon Graphics cores can muster some modest p gaming performance. It's — who still wants a high-end CPU with a paltry core count in the single digits?
With the Ryzen 9 X, you can scoot right into the double digits with 12 cores and 24 threads. This CPU will blast through whatever work you throw at it so you can move right along to gaming.
It's unlikely you'll find a game that this CPU can't handle with ease, even if you're playing at p to push the processor to its limits while gaming at high frame rates. This processor also nets you access to PCIe 4.
If you don't want to bet the performance of your gaming rig on a budget CPU, the Intel Core iK can meet you in the middle. This chip also comes with integrated graphics that can help you get your next PC build set up even if you don't have the graphics card yet. With six cores and 12 threads capable of running at up to 4. And, if you're finding the CPU is holding you back, you can try to eke even more power out of it as it is an overclockable model.
Just make sure you get an adequate CPU cooler if you plan to push the overclocks. Though this one stays at the same 65W TDP as its smaller sibling, AMD has packed in eight cores with multi-threading, and the processor can hit boost clocks up to 4. This chip also comes with a little extra oomph in the graphics department thanks to an extra graphics core, bringing the total to eight Radeon Graphics cores.
However, this is only an issue with those more serious workloads, which is more than sufficient for more reasonable stuff.
You could argue that gaming could go beyond the threads we have here, but there's no evidence that is the case so far, and that's even though the next-gen consoles are rocking 8-cores and threads. The Ryzen 5 X also bucks the Ryzen family's trend by shipping with a Wraith Stealth cooler, so you don't have to drop extra money on a third-party chiller.
You don't need to, but if you do, you'll hit higher clocks for longer and also open up the wonderful world of overclocking, which could make it worthwhile. This is a decent little overclocker, and while it won't affect gaming much, it'll help in other areas nicely. The key takeaway for us as gamers is that this improvement means AMD pushed Intel to improve, and improve it did with Alder Lake.
Whatever resolution you are gaming at, this processor can handle it and keep your graphics card of choice fed with many juicy frames. The fact that this is a core, thread monster means that it can cope with anything else you throw at it as well. So if you have dreams of 3D rendering, video editing, or any other serious tasks, you'll know that you have the raw grunt to handle it. That it won't hold you back when gaming makes it even sweeter.
The only real downside is the pricing and the dropping of the Wraith cooler—don't forget to factor in when you buy. You do get what you pay for, though, and this is a phenomenal chip for gaming and anything else you might want to do. If you're in the market for absolute power, you could step up to the Ryzen 9 X , which gives you 16 cores and 32 threads. Okay, with the K being a frustrating chip, maybe it's not a total return to the old days, but the K is still an outstanding six-core, thread gaming processor.
It's also affordable too, with a price tag well underneath the Ryzen 5 X and performance figures that have it trading blows with AMD's otherwise excellent Zen 3 chip. The Cypress Cove 14nm backport may have made it relatively power-hungry, but that doesn't stop it from being a great gaming CPU and one that delivers a lot of processor silicon for not a lot of cash.
And PCIe 4. Though that is of dubious benefit at the moment as our testing has not so far gone well with supported PCIe 4. That will hopefully change, but even so, this is still one of the best cheap gaming CPUs around. The Core i5 F is a surprisingly exciting option.
It's slightly faster than the previous-gen Core i5 , but that F-suffix means it ditches the Intel integrated graphics completely. Overall, it's an excellent budget-friendly choice that doesn't cost much more than a Core i3 part. There are other compromises, like the locked multiplier—no overclocking here. But you can save money and grab an H motherboard. At least you get a cooler in the box, something we'd like to see as an option with every CPU. Most boards will happily run the F at 3.
Future games may start to push beyond its 6-core capabilities, but probably not before you're ready for an upgrade. Right now, the i5 F is plenty fast and extremely affordable. If the Intel Core i7 K didn't exist, this would be an incredible chip and would have been higher up the recommendations, no sweat. It's excellent for gaming, producing the exact figures that can be seen for the X and X.
Still, it also appears to hit the sweet spot in configuration terms, with its eight cores and 16 threads surely seeing it right for the future, seeing as that is what the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 are rocking.
Unfortunately for AMD, Intel does exist, and the blue company's latest Core i7 trounces this in plenty of the more critical metrics but has this chip beat in one significant way—value for money.
This can be faster in some tasks, and if that's what you've got an eye on, then buy this and don't give it a second thought. But if you're mainly looking at gaming, Intel does better and costs less. And that's hard for AMD to get away from. Competition aside, this is still Zen 3 strutting its stuff, and it does that impressively well. Throw in the support for PCIe 4. AMD's APUs are the best processors to drop into your rig if you're not going to use a discrete graphics card, but still want a modicum of gaming performance out of your system.
That makes this a chip that's almost up there with the best of the Ryzen series CPUs in processing power, but with the graphical grunt to deliver p gaming on low settings in some seriously demanding titles. At the same time, you wait for discrete graphics cards to be available and without compromising too heavily on your system performance in the meantime. Essentially, the chip itself conveys the efficiency of certain cores to the operating system via an API.
The OS then makes the decisions on which cores and instruction threads to use. But in Windows 10 and Linux, Thread Director will still run, but without some of the thread-specific feedback that will improve performance within Windows All of these factors add a new wrinkle to the 12th-gen Alder Lake chips: Intel believes that your PC will be faster when two tasks are run concurrently, rather than one after another.
Intel released data showing that when Adobe Lightroom and Premier are used together to edit photos while a video is being exported the tasks complete faster than when run separately. How Thread Director will work from a user perspective is still a bit confusing.
When you hide an application, Windows will automatically push it to the slightly slower efficiency or E-cores, Therien said. But he also said that users will be able to configure that behavior themselves.
And as far as the new Apple M1 and M1 Max chips are concerned? Intel is providing a number of tools to overclock the Alder Lake processors, many of which will probably be used by competitive enthusiasts hoping to score a few clocks higher than rivals when supercooling the chips. Dan Ragland, the principal engineer overseeing the feature, showed how the tool overclocked an unnamed Intel processor from 4.
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