Intel Core i3 vs. Core i5 vs. Core i7 vs. Core i9

[yeeeeman]

Intel is basically dead, they just don't know it yet. Stop wasting time with this ****.

Well, they are in a bad shape now, but I wouldn't call it dead.
The only bad thing about these parts are the prices, frankly. If 10700k would be 250$ and 10900k 350$, I think they would sell by a lot. Performance wise they are up there with AMD's best and remember one more time that this is 6700K with more cores, so a 2015 product!
But now they reached the end of tweaking skylake.

 

[Mike Koh]

Still rocking an i7 9700F I bought for cheap (like $220 in January, when rest of my country is selling for 350- 400) on my b360m mobo. the way I see it, by the time 8C8T is obsolete, I probably have a family and wont have much time for new games and the architecture improvements would probably be far better and efficient than anything we have now. even now, I barely play triple A games so I am not going to upgrade my CPU anymore, GPU on the otherhand is easily replaceable.

 

[Rjmachine]

For gaming. 8C/16T is the sweet spot, as you can see in the results. Exact same perf as 10C/20T and 8C/16T will usually allow for slightly higher clockspeeds which is preferable.

I'd rather have 6C/12T over 8C/8T considering next gen consoles gets SMT, meaning New AAA Games will take use (like Battlefield series have done for years). Console hardware predicts PC gaming requirements, so Expect RAM and VRAM requirement bump soon + more CPU cores needed. The days of Quad Core Gaming will be gone soon. Even SMT is not going to save Quads this time.

8C/16T will be enough for the entirety of next gen consoles, meaning 6-8 years into the future.

I would like to see focus on clockspeeds now. Answer is NOT more cores and threads for consumers/gamers, we need IPC and/or clockspeed improvement.

This is what Rocket Late and Zen 3 is supposed to bring, but I don't expect something really good before 2022+ (new arch and platforms from both Intel and AMD with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support).

Zen 3 and Rocket Lake will just be "more of the same" (performance-wise) and both Intel 400 series platform and AM4 is a dead end now. You won't see any leaps this time.

 

[sumitnain93]

I always trust on Intel

 

[thewhitegrizzli]

Great read - thanks a lot for sharing it helped me choose the right processor for my super duper monster custom build. Cheers -

 

[MaxSmarties]

Great read - thanks a lot for sharing it helped me choose the right processor for my super duper monster custom build. Cheers -

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