The bad news in advance: THE best CPU does not really exist as a general statement, if you include all facets such as application purpose, actually required performance, overall concept of the PC and your own budget. The most convenient CPU for one and its needs, however, already exists.
Gaming or Office, Workstation or HTPC? The range of applications and the resulting range of services is enormous and many users have already planned themselves quite a bit before the purchase decision. This kind of thing causes not only frustration and stress in self-construction, but often also financial losses when you have to buy, exchange or replace completely, which does not fit together.
Compared to gaming, there are certainly much more broad requirements profiles for evaluation in (semi-) professional. Nevertheless, one can consider a certain tendency to give the AMDs Ryzen quite potential, even if it is not always only a matter of the highest possible IPC.
In the end, as always, it will probably be decided on the price and also on the security of the future. If some of the quad-cores still keep up, sooner or later the trend towards parallelized processing will probably continue and prevail. Intel's current six-core without hyper-threading is almost a lazy compromise, as an older four-core with hyper-threading and high clock can often do better.
We see that there are a lot of interactions between all the components you need. Does the CPU really fit into the socket and if so – is the motherboard really suitable? Is the cooling performance of the CPU cooler sufficient and if so – does the RAM still fit under the cooler or does it disturb a graphics card in the first PCI Express slot? There should also be experts who screw a huge tower cooler onto a mini-ITX board and only then think about the housing…
Prices fluctuate like palm trees in the tropical cyclone, and every early adaptor puts a lot of emphasis on it. For this reason, we do not want to make price-related judgments at this point for the time being, because both market-standard price adjustments and a rather limited availability (Intel's Coffe Lake-S) make such statements an absolute momentary consideration, the statement of which is only may be outdated in a few days. That's why we refer to the pure results and leave it to the readers to use the price search engines correctly.
- 1 - Einführung und Testsystem
- 2 - Gaming: 3DMark Fire Strike, 3DMark Time Spy
- 3 - Gaming: Ashes of the Singularity, Civilization VI
- 4 - Gaming: GTA V, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War III
- 5 - Gaming: Hitman 2016, Project Cars
- 6 - Gaming: Far Cry Primal, VRMark
- 7 - Workstation VGA: AutoCAD 2016 in 2D und 3D
- 8 - Workstation VGA: Solidworks 2015 und Creo 3.0
- 9 - Workstation VGA: Catia und Maya
- 10 - Workstation VGA: Cinebench, 3ds Max und Blender
- 11 - Workstation CPU: Solidworks 2015 und Creo 3.0
- 12 - Workstation-CPU: Blender und Luxrender
- 13 - Workstation-CPU: 3ds Max Rendering und Compute
- 14 - Workstation-CPU: Handbrake und 7Zip
- 15 - Leistungsaufnahme Idle & CAD-Workload
- 16 - Leistungsaufnahme Gaming/3D & Torture
- 17 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit
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