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Intel 10th-Gen CPUs to Get 5.3 GHz Boost Clock
AMD has been slowly catching up to Intel throughout the gaming CPU market. The first generation of AMD Ryzen CPUs was able to destroy the competition in all benchmarks except gaming but, AMD Zen 2 has been able to catch up to Intel 9th-Gen in the gaming market. Well, it seems like Intel is going to pull far ahead of AMD with their 10t-gen Intel CPUs. Intel’s 10th-Generation CPUs are going to reach a boost clock of 5.3 GHz and according to the latest leaks, AMD is going to have a hard time catching up.
Intel Unveils 10th-Gen Hardware
Intel has unveiled their latest generation of CPUs and the high-end 10th-Gen CPU, the Intel Core i9-10900K with 10 Cores, and 20 threads has a max boost clock of 5.3 GHz with an MSRP of $488. For comparison, the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 12 cores, 24 threads, and a max clock of 4.6 GHz. This means really bad news for AMD as the gaming market is the only part of the consumer CPU market which AMD has not been able to disrupt that much and this puts them even further back then they were before.
The mid-tier 10th-gen CPU, the Core i7-10700K features 8 cores, 16 threads, and a max boost clock of 5.1 GHz for $374. All across the board, Intel is able to destroy competing AMD CPUs in terms of boost clock and in turn single-core performance which means that the 10th-gen Intel CPUs are going to perform much better than the competing AMD CPUs in terms of gaming performance. The Core i3-10100 with 4 cores, 8 threads, and a boost clock of 4.3 GHz has an MSRP of $122. It’s amazing to see how only a few years back you needed to spend at least $300 to play triple-A games and now for only $122 you can play all triple-A games with decent performance as you can now get a quad-core CPU for about $100.
AMD 4000 Series CPUs Latest Leaks
The latest rumors regarding AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 4000 series CPUs show us that AMD is definitely not going to be able to compete with Intel in single-core performance. The image below from UserBenchmarks benchmarks an AMD CPU with the name ‘PD340SC5M4MFH_37/34_Y.” By Dissecting the code name we see that it’s an AM4 CPU with a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a boost clock of 3.7 GHz. It seems like this CPU is a lower-end AMD CPU as it’s related to the 65W G-series lineup as it only features 4 Cores, 8 Threads, and 4 MB of L3 cache along with 2 MB of L2 cache.
Now, this CPU is only being tested right now and in the near future it is definitely going to get higher boost clocks but it is still a worrying sign. The fact that this CPU only has a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a max clock of 3.7 GHz shows us that it is probably going to come out with a boost clock a little below 4 GHz. Well, the cheapest 10th-gen Intel CPU the Core i3-10100 for $122 features 4 cores, 8 threads, and a boost clock of 4.3 GHz. Unless AMD is able to do some serious optimization, Intel is going to leap ahead of the competition in the gaming CPU market.