Intel Core i5 Comet Lake i5-10600K OEM (CM8070104282134)

This time, Intel was able to

While AMD is struggling with a new process technology, the blue camp continues to sell obsolete processors at inflated prices. Moreover and sockets change. Last year, the company was regularly kicked for the top-end Core i5 with an index of 9600, which could become the leader of the middle segment if the company did not cut its multi-threading support. With the arrival of Comet Lake, everything has changed and now the new Core i5 10600K boasts multi-threading support and an unlocked multiplier.

6 cores, 12 threads, unlocked multiplier

The Core i5-10600K offers buyers six cores, twelve threads, 12 MB L3 cache and clock speeds ranging from 4.1 to 4.8 GHz. An unlocked multiplier will help push those numbers up a bit more by overclocking. However, it's not worth rolling the lip, Intel is already squeezing all the juice out of the 14-nm process technology, so the ceiling is groped very quickly during overclocking. In most tests, the alignment of forces is such that the Intel Core i5-10600K is comparable in performance to last year's Core i7-9700K, which was sold for almost $400. A couple of years ago, only very optimistic people could have predicted such a move towards both improvement and cost reduction by Intel.

A worthy competitor to the Ryzen 7 3700X

Compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X, it holds up more than worthy: in games it is a little faster, in work tasks it lags slightly due to the additional cores from Ryzen, but the difference is generally minimal. At the same time, the price in stores for both “stones” is completely identical for once, about $340, and the Core i5-10600K looks even slightly more profitable due to the built-in video core. But against the background of the younger model Core i5-10400F, the benefit is not so obvious: the performance gap rarely exceeds 15%, and the price in stores is one and a half times higher.