Mid-to-high-end popular CPU in 2019： Multi-core or high frequency？ A or I？ Who do you choose？

　　[PConline cross review]2019 is coming to an end. For the majority of DIYer, the first half of 19 years belongs to Intel；; In the second half of 19 years, it belonged to AMD.

In the first half of 2019:

　　Intel can still stably suppress AMD’s market share in the first half of the year only by relying on the toothpaste left by Skylake. It can be said that in the DIY market in the first half of the year, Intel still didn’t take AMD as an opponent.One thing said, Intel is really good at playing games.

In the second half of 2019:

　　The first two generations of Ruilong made AMD’s CPU department slightly better. In July, the three generations of Ruilong were AMD’s challenge to Intel:Don’t treat us like ants, the times have changed since today!

　　On the day of summing up at the end of this year, I will send you the annual popular A/I CPU cross-evaluation, which will be used as PConline’s 2019 CPU ranking.

　　This time, only the popular processors were selected as the horizontal selection. If you want to see a more complete ranking, you can click here to enter the 2019 CPU ladder diagram.

Six popular CPUs on e-commerce platform

　　This review is not in ceiling price. In recent years, in addition to the students who installed machines for cost performance, they also installed machines for the pursuit of ultimate performance. Therefore, the sales of high-end CPU are relatively high this year, which is of reference value for adding statistics. However, when the total score is evaluated horizontally, the price will still be added to the scoring item.

　　Based on the sales statistics of multi-e-commerce platforms, we selected six CPU models that sell well every year:

I. Intel i5-9600KF/　i5-9400F

　　“The middle-end main force that takes advantage of the right time and the right place."

　　The first place in sales volume is often occupied by Core i5, but this year’s Ruilong 3600X is also very competitive. In addition, the ninth generation Core i5 came out much earlier than the 3600X, and the accumulated sales volume is more reasonable than the latter.

　　Both CPUs are i5 of the ninth generation, and the sales volume is relatively hot. Here, I choose i5-9600KF as the representative of Intel.

Second, AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

　　"Sales champion in the second half of 2019"

　　During the period when the third-generation Ruilong CPU was just launched, apart from the eye-catching Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 7 3700X, what attracted people more was the Ryzen 5 3600X with 6 cores and 12 threads. Everyone could count the boxes.

Iii. Intel i7-9700K

　　"The most cost-effective game artifact in the high end"

　　If you want to play games, you have to look at Intel. Compared with the situation that game optimization stopped at 4 cores a few years ago, the game’s support for 8-core CPU is not good now, but at least it has been done. Some large 3A masterpieces can really enjoy the performance bonus brought by multi-core, and Intel’s high-frequency and high-energy characteristics are very suitable for game scenes. Cutting the hyper-threading function that has zero effect on games, the i7-9700K is indeed the most cost-effective high-end CPU suitable for playing games this year.

Iv. AMD Ryzen 7 3800X/Ryzen 7 3700X

　　"showstopper that impacts the high-end CPU market"

　　It is also two high-end CPUs that big game players pay attention to, both of which are 8-core and 16-thread specifications. Ryzen 7 3800X can be regarded as a better Ryzen 7 3700X.

　　Although the game is not as good as i7-9700K and i9-9900K, the performance-price ratio and comprehensive performance are weighed together, and they are more worthy of purchase than two Intel high-end CPUs. Here, Ryzen 7 3800X, which is slightly stronger, is selected for comparative test.

V. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

　　"miracle of 7nm, I/O die and glue MCM packaging"

　　In fact, in terms of miracles, its eldest brother Ryzen 9 3950X is more suitable, but because Ryzen 9 3950X keeps jumping tickets and has been in a "snap-up — — "Out of stock" status, as of the time of our statistics, we have not accumulated much sales, so we can’t be on the list.

　　The CPU of AM4 interface can be packed into 12 cores or even 16 cores, which is closely related to AMD’s newly designed core architecture. CCD+I/O die is more flexible than the big core route that Intel has always adhered to.

VI. Intel i9-9900KF

　　"Can it be used without exceeding 5GHz?"

　　Perhaps because i9-9900K is the flagship CPU launched at the end of 2018, itI lost to the low nuclear display version i9-9900KF.

　　After thinking about it, the value of this CPU should be that it will exceed 5GHz immediately after being bought back, and then it will be used to brush bilibili and visit Weibo, at least in the view of supercontinent. (Manual dog head)

▼Comparison of six CPU specifications: AMD is confident.

　　The CPU parameters are listed here. On the whole, the CPU specifications of AMD seem to be more bright: 7nm+ multi-core+super large three-buffer +PCIe 4.0, and the frequency span between different CPUs is not large. Intel dominates the high-frequency direction, and the frequency span between the mid-range and high-end CPU is large.

Test platform construction

　　Let’s introduce our evaluation platform first.

　　The hardware of the evaluation has been used all the time. The first thing to ensure is that the platform is stable and reliable.

　　As for the motherboard, both Z390 chipset and X570 chipset use ROG HERO series, with the same positioning, which reduces the performance impact caused by different motherboard specifications.

　　The radiator is GI-CX360 water-cooled with overclocking triple mirror. Because the specification span of CPU in this test is large, it will be safer to use 360 water-cooled.

　　The memory is pulled out from four Kiki royal halberds, and the combination of double 8GB is enough to give full play to their performance.

performance test

Theoretical performance test▼

　　The theoretical performance test project will test a variety of traditional running software, and whoever scores high will be powerful, simple and rude.

▍　CPU-Z v1.90

　　CPU-Z test items are divided into single-thread and multi-thread. It can be seen that i7-9700K and i9-9900KF with higher frequency have completely outperformed AMD’s three participating CPUs in single-thread performance, which should be a predictable result without testing.

　　In terms of multithreading performance, Ryzen 9 3900X has no suspense, and the 12-core 24-thread specification crushes the other five participating CPUs. Being both 8-core and 16-thread, Ryzen 7 3800X multi-threaded performance is higher than i9-9900KF with stronger single-core performance.

　　Ryzen 5 3600X with 6 cores and 12 threads is basically the same as i7-9700K with 8 cores and 8 threads, so i5-9600KF can only be a younger brother among them.

▍　CineBench R15

▍　CineBench R20

　　CineBench is a running score software that scores by testing the rendering speed. No matter whether this pile of CPU is in R15 or R20, the multi-thread performance ranking is the same. The multi-threaded performance of Ryzen 9 3900X still surpasses the other five CPUs, and in R20, the single-threaded performance of AMD processor actually surpasses the high-frequency i9-9900KF.

▍　wPrime 2.10 1024M

　　WPrime is a software that tests the computing power of CPU by calculating prime numbers, and it is also very direct and violent. The multi-core Ryzen 9 3900X is still popular, and the testing time is nearly half that of i9-9900KF. The slowest is i5-9600KF, because the number of core threads is relatively small, and Ryzen 5 3600X, which is located close to it, is much faster than it, only 60% of the time.

3DMark Time Spy Extreme physical score▼

　　3DMark’s TSE project is also a software with multi-threading performance. Ryzen 9 3900X is still in the lead, while i9-9900KF with stronger high-frequency single-core performance is about 400 points away from Ryzen 7 3800X of the same specification.

Compressed file performance test▼

　　Compression software is often used by people. Because the compression software algorithms are different, the speed of compressing files among different compression softwares will be different. Here, two compression softwares are selected for testing: WinRAR, which is used by many people, and 7Zip, which comes with Benchmark.

▍　7-Zip benchmark score

　　In the 7-Zip test, the distance between AMD processor and Intel processor is very large. The score of Ryzen 7 3800X is 11.3% higher than that of i9-9900KF with the same core specification, and Ryzen 9 3900X continues to lead.

▍　WinRAR compressed file speed

　　WinRAR, the result here is reversed. Ryzen 9 3900X is 4.3% slower than i9-9900KF, and i5-9600KF is still stable at the bottom. Let’s click on the big picture to compare the other figures.

Performance test of office scenario simulation application▼

　　Most of the test items of PCMark are aimed at daily office applications, such as web browsing and document editing. Ryzen 9 3900X still doesn’t have much advantage, only 1.8% higher than i9-9900KF, which shows that CPU with high frequency and strong single core will be better used in this kind of project.

Professional software application performance test▼

　　Compared with the daily office work above, professional applications will test the performance of CPU more, among which multi-threaded applications are the majority. In theory, Ryzen 9 3900X with more cores will have more advantages.

▍　POV-Ray Benchmark

　　POV-Ray Benchmark is a software for testing the rendering performance of CPU. It can achieve results by rendering a large picture and calculating the average rendering pixels per second.

　　Ryzen 9 3900X outshines others, i9-9900KF is similar to AMD 3800X, while i5-9600KF, which has lost the number of threads, has fallen into the sewer and can’t get out.

▍　FHD X264 Benchmark

　　FHD X264 Benchmark tests and records the rendered frames by exporting the video. Ryzen 9 3900X here is not much different from i9-9900KF, only 6.4%.

▍　ArcTime Pro video compression and export

　　ArcTime Pro is the normal process of exporting video. Here, the performance of Ryzen 9 3900X with more cores is relatively normal, and the distance between i9-9900KF is a little bit.

　　This shows that if you do video work, it will be more popular with more cores/threads. Ryzen 9 3900X has the best performance in these products and is more suitable for video workers. The performance of i9-9900KF is also good. Although the number of cores suffers, the actual performance gap is not as big as the proportion of core numbers.

　　Summary of theoretical performance test:There’s nothing to say about small projects. The core specifications and performance of the processor are here. We can know what’s going on by comparing them. What Supercontinental wants to talk about here is the problem that AMD’s multi-thread performance surpasses Intel’s when its single-thread performance is slightly weak.

　　To put it simply, the SMT technology of Ryzen CPU is a little more powerful than the HT technology of Core I series, and the multi-core utilization rate is higher, which is why the single-thread performance of Ryzen 7 3800X is not as good as that of i9-9900KF in many of the above projects, but the multi-thread performance is reversed.

　　"Multi-frame" is bound to be the trend of future development.Win10 system is a good example. You won’t see the scene of Win7 "one core is in trouble, and N cores are watching" in Win10 system. AMD has made a better decision than Intel on how to optimize the performance of "multi-frame".

Game performance test

　　The number of game masterpieces this year is also dizzying, and the two processor manufacturers are also keen to use game performance as their selling point.

　　Here, six popular online games and 3A masterpieces are selected for testing, and the image quality is uniformly set to 1080P resolution, with the lowest image quality. The reason for this setting is to reduce the influence of graphics card bottleneck and maximize the performance difference of CPU.

▍　Tomb Raider: Shadow

▍　DOTA2

▍　GTA5

▍　Total War: Three Kingdoms

▍　Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.

▍　Jedi survival: the great escape

　　Game test summary:All six CPUs can make the game run at more than 100 frames, but in Tomb Raider: Shadow, Total War: The Three Kingdoms and The Great Escape of the Jedi, the performance of Intel’s two high-end CPU games has obviously abandoned the rest of the processors.Take the position of the first brother of Intel Games..

　　The "extreme game performance" that Intel has been boasting is indeed well founded.However, the game running at such a high number of frames, except for some e-sports big brothers who use 240Hz screens, can actually ignore this frame gap to some extent.

　　Moreover, our test is based on the setting of 1080P resolution and the lowest image quality. If the image quality is properly raised, the graphics card and CPU will tend to be performance bottlenecks, then the gap between them will be narrowed.

Temperature and power consumption test

　　Because it is impossible to test the power consumption of a single hardware, there have been data errors when the software reads the hardware power consumption information. Here, Nortel instrument power consumption meter is used to test the power consumption of the whole platform, and Tomb Raider Benchmark is used to test the full load of the game.

　　I9-9900KF showed the phenomenon of frequency reduction during the test, and the power consumption was lower when the game was fully loaded and tested by Prime 95 than that of i7-9700K. Combined with the above Tomb Raider game test, the frame number of i9-9900KF in the game was not as good as that of i7-9700K, which can explain this phenomenon.

　　On AMD’s side, the power consumption of three generations of Ryzen processor can be effectively controlled by the 7nm process. The power consumption of Ryzen 9 3900X single baked FPU is only 278W, which is nearly 30W lower than that of i7-9700K, which has the highest power consumption. The former is a "miracle species" with four more cores than the latter.

　　As a result of opening PBO, three generations of Ryzen processor hit a temperature wall of 95°C together when baking FPU to reduce the frequency.

　　Intel processors have much lower power consumption and lower frequency at low frequency. The baked FPU of i5-9600KF with few cores is only 68°C, while the 8-core i7-9700K and i9-9900KF have reached the 90°C mark due to more cores and higher frequency, but the temperature is still lower than that of AMD processors.

Summary of PConline evaluation room

▼Comparison of comprehensive performance of six popular CPUs：

　　Hard to do the test, and finally for this comprehensive comparison table, which is the essence of the whole test.

　　The comprehensive performance gap table is the data obtained by synthesizing all the above test items except temperature and power consumption. Because many items will eat multithreading performance, Ryzen 9 3900X undoubtedly won the comprehensive performance championship.

　　Look at the other contestants, i9-9900KF and Ryzen 7 3800X with the same specifications. Although the latter is blessed by SMT technology, some multithreaded scenes will perform slightly better than the former.However, the game is the strong point of i9-9900KF, which lags far behind Ryzen 7 3800X, and wins by high-frequency performance..

　　Because i7-9700K has no hyper-threading function, even if the game is strong, the multi-threading scene drops too many points, and its comprehensive performance is even worse than that of Ryzen 7 3800X, and even it is almost caught up by Ryzen 5 3600X with fewer cores.

　　There is nothing to say about the i5-9600KF. Except for games, other projects are basically at the bottom, but U is actually a good U, but it just happens to be the cheapest and lowest specification one in this horizontal review.

　　Comparing Intel’s game strengths, there is no suspense, but in fact AMD is not too far behind Intel, which is worthy of surprise.

　　Because our game tests are all set to the lowest quality special effects to enlarge the game performance gap between CPUs, the gap will be even smaller if the high quality special effects are turned on.

　　Cost-effectiveness is also a concern for everyone to buy a processor, but there is no more scientific measurement method, so here is a simple and rude one.CPU price ÷ comprehensive performance percentage, get the unit price per percentage of performance. As a result of this calculation,Ruilong 3600X has the highest cost performance and i5-9600KF has the second highest cost performance..

　　Anyway, the smaller the number, the higher the cost performance.Overall, AMD Ruilong will be slightly more cost-effective than Intel Core..

　　As for the unscientific comparison method, I can tell you responsibly: it is good for everyone to have fun, and everyone has his own scale in his heart.

　　Because the higher the performance, the more difficult it is to improve the performance, so how to calculate here will be that the middle/low-end processors have higher cost performance: because the cost of realizing their performance is very low. High-end processors are expensive, and it takes hundreds or thousands of RMB to improve the performance of 10%. Whether it is worth it or not is a matter of opinion.

▼Summary time for expressing personal opinions — —

　　At the end of 2019, Supercontinental believes that it is meaningless to discuss the issue of "whether the processor performance is excessive".

　　As for the reasons, I don’t need to be embarrassed. Everyone is from the era of the media.The demand for creative CPU has soared., playing games to buy less core high-frequency CPU. For those creators and big UP owners, their demand for CPU performance can be said to be bottomless.

　　Therefore, regardless of the use requirements, all those who say that the CPU performance is excessive should be treated as hooligans.

　　Undeniably, in this year’s CPU market, Intel is still firmly on the throne of the game boss.I also changed my computer for playing games to i7-9700K.In some games with high demand for the stability of game frames, it is indeed better than AMD. (It’s not that I’m black, sometimes I really get stuck playing games with AMD processors.)

Sometimes I just get stuck suddenly and then I get disconnected.

　　On the comprehensive ability, AMD with "excess performance" will be even more brilliant.,In other words, AMD’s processors have become "all-powerful"Ryzen 9 3950X, which has the largest number of consumer platforms, has a higher acceleration frequency than any other Ryzen processor. What’s the concept? Not only do you have multi-core advantages at work, but you can also enjoy high-frequency advantages when playing games.

　　Coupled with the rest of AMD’s product lines, the "ceiling" EPYC Rome CPU with servers, and the weakness is the thread ripper of the fever platform. APU more suitable for the low-end platform will also come, and everyone can find their own heart water products in AMD.

　　This year is the flowering and fruiting period of AMD Ruilong.

　　It’s always good to have competition. AMD’s ZEN architecture has given people renewed confidence in Moore’s Law. In order to continue to consolidate its own market, Intel will also speed up the pace of new products, and ultimately, users will benefit. This year’s new CPU products are worthy of our happiness.

▼Guide for purchasing 6 processors (recommended) — —

▍　I5-9600KF 1399 yuan

　　Like i5-9400F, it is stillThis year, there is a high purchase value of CPU.In office, online games and most 3A masterpieces, it will have better performance, and the owner of Internet cafes should like this CPU better.

　　If the game you play is biased towards Tencent online games and the budget is not much, it will be a better choice.

▍　Ryzen 5 3600X 1499 yuan

　　Compared with the above two i5s, this processor has no price advantage.But the comprehensive performance will be stronger.. With the SMT hyper-threading function, I think it is more suitable for users who usually work and play games moderately, and they can also play games by editing pictures and repairing drawings. Professional performance is better than i5, and the game loses a little bit, but it’s not too bad.

▍　I7-9700K 2899 yuan

　　Subjective opinion:If you want me to recommend the CPU in 2019, I think this is the most fragrant CPU. After exceeding 5GHz, the game performance is off the charts, and it has experienced the latest wave of price reduction, which is very affordable.

　　Objective opinion:The 8-core specification is just right for most games, but it doesn’t have hyper-threading. It may not be as good as AMD’s Ryzen 7 series when dealing with work. It belongs to a processor made for games. After the price reduction, the price/performance ratio is really high. It is recommended for game enthusiasts with little budget.

▍　I9-9900kf3,499 yuan

　　The strongest game processor ordered by Intel, but there is also an i9-9900KS in this series, which is the complete body of the 9900K series.

　　Compared with i7-9700K, it has more hyper-threading function, and it has good performance in both games and work. Personally, it is suitable for game anchors — — Turn off Hyper-Threading when playing the game live, turn on Hyper-Threading when editing the essence live, and release the film quickly.

▍　Ryzen 7 3800X 2599 yuan

　　Ruilong 7Their positioning is equivalent to i9-9900K, but the game is obviously not as good as the latter.

　　Because they all have hyper-threading function, their comprehensive performance is stronger than Intel’s, and they are more suitable for working machines. It is recommended that users with low budget should buy them with good working performance and strong game performance.

▍　Ryzen 9 3900X 3999 yuan

　　4,000 yuan, I don’t think I’ll even know if I don’t have a mine at home.

　　The game is still inferior to Intel.But the comprehensive performance is the strongest here.,Those who pursue extreme productivity can consider it.,Or even more extreme, its eldest brother Ryzen 9 3950X.If you have a gold mine at home, you can also choose a higher-end thread ripper series.

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