Top 10 processors | The best processors of 2021

When prices change quick­ly, and new prod­ucts appear often, it is not easy to choose the opti­mal com­po­nents for a com­put­er. In this mate­r­i­al, we have col­lect­ed a dozen proces­sors, each of which will be opti­mal in its price niche. They will be locat­ed in order of increas­ing price, so that every­one can find an option that fits their bud­get and tasks.

When prices change quick­ly, and new prod­ucts appear often, it is not easy to choose the opti­mal com­po­nents for a com­put­er. In this mate­r­i­al, we have col­lect­ed a dozen proces­sors, each of which will be opti­mal in its price niche. They will be locat­ed in order of increas­ing price, so that every­one can find an option that fits their bud­get and tasks.

Ultra-budget Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Two proces­sors — AMD Athlon 3000G and Pen­tium — com­pet­ed for the place of the absolute min­i­mum, from which it is worth start­ing the assem­bly in 2021.

The first wins a lit­tle in price and has the pos­si­bil­i­ty of such a thing, but over­clock­ing. Intel just works well out of the box.

Intel Pen­tium Gold G6400 (BX80701G6400) (2/4; 4 GHz) is an excel­lent proces­sor at a min­i­mal price for office tasks.

With it, you can wait for a while, using it as a “stop­per” if you are col­lect­ing a game assem­bly.

Below is a com­par­i­son of frame rates with AMD on a sys­tem where the bot­tle­neck is the CPU itself.

As you can see, the price dif­fer­ence of about UAH 200 jus­ti­fies the dif­fer­ence in per­for­mance.

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Budget Intel Core i3-10100F

Intel Core i3-10100F (BX8070110100F) (4/8; 3.6 — 4.3 GHz) has 4 phys­i­cal cores and 8 threads. And although Intel posi­tions it in the entry-lev­el line, only a few years ago this con­fig­u­ra­tion of cores was used only in flag­ship chips.

The stone is great for every­day tasks and work­ing with images. Due to its low price, it can be used in ordi­nary home com­put­ers and installed in bud­get game assem­blies.

The only nuance is the lack of a built-in graph­ics proces­sor. On the one hand, this made it pos­si­ble to reduce the price com­pared to the usu­al Intel Core i3-10100, on the oth­er hand, it makes it nec­es­sary to have a sep­a­rate video card.

The AMD Ryzen 7 2700 proces­sor can be used in ordi­nary home com­put­ers and installed in bud­get game assem­blies

The best price-to-performance Intel Core i5-10400F

Intel Core i5-10400F (BX8070110400F) (6/12; 2.9 — 4.3 GHz) is right­ful­ly con­sid­ered the opti­mal, pop­u­lar proces­sor. In the price range of UAH 4,000–5,000, 6‑core 10400F proces­sors can be com­pared only with AMD Ryzen 5 3500X.

At the same time, the proces­sor los­es to the red ones both in terms of the num­ber of threads, 6 vs. 12, and in terms of the max­i­mum fre­quen­cy — 4.1 GHz vs. 4.3 GHz.

Thanks to this, the solu­tion from Intel is faster in both games and work tasks.

Below is an illus­tra­tive exam­ple.

With almost equal per­for­mance indi­ca­tors of one core, AMD is slow­er in the test of the entire chip as a whole.

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The optimal working processor AMD Ryzen 7 2700

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (YD2700BBM88AF) (8/16; 3.2 — 4.1 GHz) is more suit­able for those who care more about the large num­ber of cores and threads com­pared to their fre­quen­cy.

The chip has an 8‑core 16-thread proces­sor on the Zen + archi­tec­ture.

In its price niche, it can only com­pete with its pre­de­ces­sor, the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, which is sig­nif­i­cant­ly infe­ri­or to it both in the speed of oper­a­tion per core and in over­all per­for­mance.

It is the opti­mal choice for inex­pen­sive video edit­ing, work with com­plex 3D and ren­der­ing.

The AMD Ryzen 7 2700 proces­sor is the opti­mal choice for inex­pen­sive video edit­ing, work with com­plex 3D and ren­der­ing

Gaming 8‑core Intel Core i7-9700KF

Com­pared to the pre­vi­ous AMD, the Intel Core i7-9700KF (BX80684I79700KF) proces­sor (8/8; 3.6 — 4.9 GHz) does not sup­port mul­ti­thread­ing — the num­ber of threads is equal to the num­ber of cores.

It also dis­ables the built-in graph­ics core.

But there is the pos­si­bil­i­ty of over­clock­ing, which togeth­er with the high clock fre­quen­cy and mod­ern archi­tec­ture make it the best in the niche up to 7000 hryv­nias.

Below is a com­par­i­son with the com­peti­tor Intel Core i5-10600, where the i7 was in stock con­di­tion.

You can also see the approx­i­mate dif­fer­ence in stock/overclock.

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Fresh i7 Intel Core i7-10700F

Intel Core i7-10700F (BX8070110700F) (8/16; 2.9 — 4.8 GHz) is an updat­ed ver­sion of the pre­vi­ous proces­sor.

It has increased per­for­mance by one core and sup­port for mul­ti­thread­ing has appeared. To reduce the price, we chose the option with the dis­abled built-in video core.

In its price niche, it can com­pete with the Ryzen 7 3700x, some­times los­ing to it in mul­ti-core tasks, but win­ning in more clas­sic and gam­ing sce­nar­ios.

Below you can see a com­par­i­son with both last year’s 3700x and the new 5800x, which will be dis­cussed lat­er.

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Fresh i7 under overclocking Intel Core i7-10700K

The Intel Core 10700K proces­sor (CM8070104282436) (8/16; 3.8 — 5.1 GHz) has high­er fre­quen­cies, a lim­it on pow­er con­sump­tion, and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of over­clock­ing.

Thanks to this, it is about 5–10% faster than the 10700F, and is almost equal in per­for­mance to last year’s flag­ship 9900K, yield­ing to it about 2000 UAH in price.

Below is a com­par­i­son of the stock ver­sion with the over­clocked ver­sion, as well as the Intel Core i9-9900KF.

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Flagship Intel Core i9-10900F

The Intel Core i9-10900F (BX8070110900F) proces­sor (10/20; 2.8 — 5.2 GHz) has 10 cores with mul­ti­thread­ing sup­port, which gives up to 20 work threads.

Actu­al­ly, mod­ern i9s are more chips for work tasks than for games.

They are revealed to the max­i­mum when work­ing with com­plex 3D graph­ics and video ren­der­ing at a pro­fes­sion­al lev­el.

Since graph­ics card resources are increas­ing­ly involved in tasks of this lev­el, graph­ics built into the proces­sor are no longer nec­es­sary, and there­fore, you can save mon­ey on them.

Com­par­ing with the near­est com­peti­tor, you can see prac­ti­cal­ly the same per­for­mance on one core, and a sure vic­to­ry in the mul­ti-core test.

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Fresh R7 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

In mid-2020, AMD released a line of proces­sors based on the Zen 3 archi­tec­ture.

They turned out to be faster than com­peti­tors from Intel, which can be ver­i­fied by the exam­ple of R7 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (100–100000063WOF) (8/16; 3.8 — 4.7 GHz).

This 8‑core and 16-thread proces­sor prac­ti­cal­ly matched the flag­ship chip from Blue — i9-10900K in mul­ti-thread­ing, and sur­passed it in per­for­mance per core.

It is now the opti­mal stone for any flag­ship gam­ing builds and work­sta­tions.

Below is a com­par­i­son with com­peti­tors in a syn­thet­ic test and a pop­u­lar game.

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The best gaming and work processor on the market AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

The new 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (100–100000061WOF) (12/24, 3.7 — 4.8 GHz) lit­er­al­ly has no com­peti­tors in its niche.

Due to the mod­ern archi­tec­ture, the per­for­mance per core is sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er than that of Intel’s flag­ship.

And thanks to a larg­er num­ber of cores and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of high-qual­i­ty over­clock­ing, it com­pares and even sur­pass­es last year’s 16-core flag­ship R9-3950X in mul­ti-thread­ed tasks.

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The Ryzen 9 5900X is the best proces­sor for almost any task on a con­sumer plat­form.

It is infe­ri­or only to the Ryzen 9 5950X by one per­cent in sev­er­al spe­cial­ized appli­ca­tions, while win­ning at almost twice the price.

Now it is the Top 1 proces­sor on the mar­ket in the upper price seg­ment.

We hope that our buy­er’s guide will help you choose a proces­sor, and we wish you suc­cess­ful pur­chas­es from Hot­line!

Author: Mykhai­lo Kushnarev