That’s one of the bigger margins we’ve seen so far, but after re-running this test on both CPUs we ended up with the same results. A decent performance boost that gets the 10600K in range of the 10700K and 10900K -- not quite the same level, but certainly comparable performance.... the Core i5-10600K has the potential to deliver 10700K and 10900K-like performance at an even cheaper price point.Moving on to the gaming benchmarks we have Battlefield V up first with the 1080p results using a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card. If you have an nvidia card get the 3600 and stream using nvenc.If your internet connection is only good enough for 720p60, and you're not using a face cam, go for the 3600. If you have a 144hz monitor, and you want to play competitively, go for the 3600X to make sure you're getting the best AMD 6 core performance you can out of the box.If you have a monstrously fast internet connection with high enough upload to support 1080p60, and plan to include a 720p or higher face cam, go with the 2700X.Okay, that is what I am currently doing but right now I am using an i5 4460I am torn between these two sub 200 dollar cpus. Perhaps more crucially, the total system usage was 21% higher than the 3700X and a whopping 32% more than the 3600, despite only beating the Ryzen 5 processor by a 4% margin in this test.Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a very GPU limited title, even at 1080p with the mighty RTX 2080 Ti. I should point out that under realistic gaming conditions, it's ~6% faster than the 3700X as seen in our 1080p data with the RTX 2080 Ti across 7 games. Enabling MCE pushed the peak operating temperature up to 65 C as we see a 45% increase in package power to 145 watts.
This is typically how we test Intel CPUs, such as the 9900K and this is also how the majority of Z490 boards operate out of the box. When overclocked it can match the $400 and $500 parts, or at least get so close it doesn’t matter. That was enough for the new Core i5 processor to leapfrog the 2700X, but not enough to catch the Ryzen 5 3600. Then when compared to competing Ryzen parts it was 6% faster than the 3700X and 9% faster than the 3600.Looking at compression performance we see that the 10600K is very similar to the 8700K, this time beating it by a small margin. I am torn between these two sub 200 dollar cpus. But, if you’re playing games such as Fortnite or PUBG, and you’re using competitive settings, then you'll see double-digit gains with the 10600K.What all that means is, for roughly the same price AMD is offering more cores and that will undoubtedly result in better productivity performance. It was slower than the Ryzen 5 3600 and quite a bit slower than the 3700X.Increasing the resolution further increases the GPU bottleneck and now the 10600K, 3700X, 3600 and a bunch of other processors all deliver virtually identical performance.Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege saw the 10600K deliver 276 fps on average which is comparable to the performance enabled by the 10700K and 10900K. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X $ 154. Basically we’re increasing the all-core clock frequency from 4.5 GHz to 4.8 GHz.The single core performance was also slightly up on the 8700K, here the 10600K was 4% faster and that made it just 1% slower than the 3600.Out of the box, the 10600K will clock up to 4.8 GHz and that’s going to make it pretty snappy in games.
All configurations were tested with an RTX 2080 Ti, 32GB of DDR4-3200 CL14 memory and a Corsair Hydro H150i Pro 360mm AIO liquid cooler. Here the 10600K was 6% faster than the 8700K and that allowed it to match the 9700K. So while we'll be using the default clock multiplier tables, none of the Intel CPUs are adhering to any power limits. That in my opinion makes it Intel’s best value high-end gaming CPU.Regardless of your decision, as of writing it’s simply not possible to purchase the Core i5-10600K. So for those seeking strong gaming performance and good value, the 10600K is an appealing option. Close. As far as we're aware no retailer has received stock and we’ve been told there will be no stock available in Q2. In this instance the Intel CPU was just 1% faster or 1fps faster when comparing 1% low data and 4% faster when comparing the average frame rate.For this review we’re going to look exclusively at results for Intel CPUs that aren’t power limited, so no TDP limited testing. It’s also very likely that you’ll be able to overclock the 10600K to around 5 to 5.1 GHz and achieve Core i7-10700K and by extension Core i9-10900K-like performance, at a fairly hefty discount.Next up we have the Blender Open Data benchmark where the 10600K was 5% faster than the 8700K, completing the CPU benchmark is 1282 seconds.