Comet Lake Discussion Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/int...u-review/5

Overall, the Core i5-10600K convincingly offers up the best gaming performance in this price range. We expect gamers to pair a chip of this class with less-expensive GPUs, but that extra bit of performance will be useful if you plan on upgrading to next-gen GPUs like AMD's Big Navi and Nvidia's Ampere.

Flipping over to the geometric mean of our application testing suite, we see that Intel has made great strides in eliminating the massive disparity between its Core i5 series and AMD's Ryzen 5 in multi-threaded applications. The overclocked Core i5-9600K falls far behind the stock 10600K, and overclocking pushes the 10600K far ahead of the 9600K and AMD Ryzen 5 chips alike. A quick look at the stock 9600K's standing against Ryzen 5, not to mention the 10600K, highlights just how much improvement Intel made by enabling Hyper-Threading and increasing clock rates.
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Overall, Intel's Core i5-10600K offers better gaming performance than the Ryzen 5 processors and minimizes disparities in multi-threaded workloads, earning our Editor's Choice award.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel...00/22.html

Intel has positioned the Core i3-10300 at $150, which is simply not competitive given the current market environment. No doubt they'll still sell tons of these to OEMs for prebuilt systems because they can market the Core i3-10300 as a "+200" model number advantage over the Core i3-10100—in real life the differences are tiny. For office systems without a discrete graphics card, I can see how the Core i3-10300 might be desirable, but the Core i3-10100 is still the better buy when looking at price/performance. As long as you don't need integrated graphics, the Core i5-10400F is what you want as you get two additional processor cores, or four threads, for just $10 more. Another strong alternative is the Ryzen 3 3300X, which is $30 cheaper, but faster in applications and close enough for gaming. Another noteworthy option is the Ryzen 5 3600 for $175, but 25% better application performance. Intel definitely needs to reconsider their pricing structure for the Core i3 and Core i5 or it'll be a bloodbath once Zen 3 releases.