60 PCWorld JULY 2020REVIEWS INTEL 10TH GEN
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Dollars$25$21Intel’s 10th-gen CPUs
earn a place at the
table, rather than
being the butt of
jokes like many 9th-
gen versions were.Ryzen 3 3100 Matisse (4/8)
Ryzen 5 3600 Matisse (6/12) Street
Ryzen 3 3300X Matisse (4/8)
Core i3-10100 Comet Lake S (4/8)
Ryzen 5 3600 Matisse (6/12)
Ryzen 9 3900X Matisse (12/24) Street
Ryzen 5 3600X Matisse (6/12) Street
Core i3-10300 Comet Lake S (4/8)
Ryzen 7 3700X Matisse (8/16) Street
Core i3-10320 Comet Lake S (4/8)
Ryzen 7 3700X Matisse (8/16)
Ryzen 5 3600X Matisse (6/12)
Ryzen 9 3900X Matisse (12/24)
Ryzen 7 3800X Matisse (8/16)
Core i5-10600K Comet Lake S (6/12)
Ryzen 9 3950X Matisse (16/32) Street
Core i7-10700K Comet Lake S (8/16)
Ryzen 9 3950X Matisse (16/32)
Core i3-9100F Coffee Lake R (4/4)
Core i9-10900K Comet Lake S (10/20)
Ryzen 7 3800X Matisse (8/16)
Core i5-9400F Coffee Lake R (6/6)
Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake-X (18/36)
Core i5-9500F Coffee Lake R (6/6)the Core i9-9900K, had an ocean-sized gap in
multi-core performance. With the additional 2
cores in Core i9-10900K, the gap narrows to
the point that some might gladly trade it for the
gaming and performance in lighter loads the
Core i9 offers.
Intel’s pricing restraint helps, too. At $488
list, the 10th-gen Core i9-10900K gives you two
more cores for the same price as the 9th-gen
Core i9-9900K. In Intel’s world, that’s a majorprice cut. In fact, Intel’s entire 10th-gen lineup is
a major improvement, as the Core i7 and Core
i5 finally get Hyper-Threading. Those two
models were embarrassingly underpowered
against their AMD counterparts. AMD’s CPUs
are still a raging deal—but at least 10th-gen Intel
isn’t just a wholesale write-off.
Rather than focus on the deal AMD offers,
there’s another positive trend we want to
point out. The height of Intel’s hubris couldContinues on opposite page