Best Processors by overall performance - December 2018

Best Processors by overall performance

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX (YD299XAZAFWOF)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX (YD299XAZAFWOF)

$1700

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Who really needs 32 cores? The answer is fairly limited, but the perspective that AMD offers is that the new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX is quite a bit less expensive than Intel's current (though dated) flagship, the 18-core Core i9-7980XE, and handily ...

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Intel Core i9-9900K 8 Cores 5.0 GHz LGA1151 95W BX80684I99900K

$535

Series: Core i9 9th Gen

Core Name: Coffee Lake

Socket: LGA1151

Integrated Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630

CPU Cores: 8

CPU Threads: 16

CPU Clock Rate: 3600MHz

CPU Turbo Clock Rate: 5000MHz

TDP: 95W

CPU Cooler included:

Manufacturing Process: 14 nm

Maximum Supported Memory: 64GB

Cache L3: 2.00MB

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Intel Core i9-7960X 16 Cores LGA2066 BX80673I97960X

$1537

Series: Core i9 X-Series

Core Name: Skylake X

Socket: LGA2066

Integrated Graphics: No

CPU Cores: 16

CPU Threads: 32

CPU Clock Rate: 2800MHz

CPU Turbo Clock Rate: 4400MHz

TDP: 165W

CPU Cooler included:

Manufacturing Process: 14 nm

Maximum Supported Memory: 128GB

Cache L3: 22.00MB

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Best performance under $400

$370

Intel Core i7-8700K

$275

Intel Core i5-9600K

$339

Intel Core i7-8700

Best performance under $300

$275

Intel Core i5-9600K

$250

Intel Core i5-8600K

$290

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Best performance under $250

$250

Intel Core i5-8600K

$169

Intel Core i3-8350K

$233

Intel Core i5-8500

Best performance under $200

$169

Intel Core i3-8350K

$200

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

$173

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Ryzen 5 1600X

Best performance under $150

$147

Intel Core i3-8100 OEM

$125

Intel Core i3-8100

$89

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

Best performance under $100

$89

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

$85

AMD Ryzen 3 1200

$96

Intel Pentium Gold G5500

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AMD FX-8350

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Series: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 Series

GPU Interface: PCI-Express x16

GPU Chipset: GeForce GTX 1060

GPU Memory Size: 6GB

GPU Memory Type: GDDR5

GPU Memory Interface: 192-Bit

GPU Clock Rate: 1510MHz

GPU Boost Clock Rate: 1710MHz

DirectX: DirectX 12

OpenGL: OpenGL 4.5

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