Worst 23 Processors based on 240 Expert Reviews

Our research includes 240 expert total reviews for 23 Processors. The lowest average score is 70%, while the highest is 94% (a gap of 24%). There are about 10 reviews per product. Reviews come from sites like PCMag, Wired, and more. Click on a product to see more information (including which reviews were included). This list gets updated every few days as we routinely add the latest products.

1: Intel Core i9-11900K

Avg. Expert Score (12 Reviews)

Mar 30, 2021 · Die-hard gamers and Intel loyalists can safely opt for the Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, Intel's mainstream 11th Generation flagship desktop CPU. But a regression in core count and only modest...

2: Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Avg. Expert Score (2 Reviews)

Jul 24, 2018 · Intel Pentium Gold G5600 And G5400 Review: Four Threads Under $100. By Paul Alcorn 24 July 2018. Comments (15) ... Intel's Pentium Gold G5600 includes on-die UHD Graphics 630, while the G5400 ...

-- tomshardware.com

3: Intel Pentium Gold G5600

Avg. Expert Score (4 Reviews)

Feb 12, 2020 · The Pentium Gold G5600 also comes equipped with Intel's widely used UHD Graphics 630 integrated graphics silicon, which features 24 execution units (EUs) and is clocked at 1.1GHz. To keep the...

4: Intel Core i3-10100

Avg. Expert Score (5 Reviews)

Feb 18, 2021 · On single-threaded tasks the Intel Core i3-10100 performed well, but oddly seemed to struggle against its predecessor, the Intel Core i3-9100, depending on the benchmark. Despite having four more...

-- shop.pcmag.com

5: Intel Core i9-10900K

Avg. Expert Score (15 Reviews)

May 20, 2020 · Intel's ten-core 20-thread Core i9-10900K cements itself as the fastest gaming processor on the market and comes at a reasonable price, but the extra performance comes at the cost of incredibly...

-- tomshardware.com

6: AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT

Avg. Expert Score (11 Reviews)

Our Ryzen 7 3800XT review takes a look at this 8-core/16-thread processor being launched today at $399—the launch price of the 3800X. The Core i7-10700K has largely eroded the performance leadership of the 3800X, forcing AMD to sell it at prices under $340. The 3800XT is then an attempt by AMD to sell an 8-core part at $399 again.

-- techpowerup.com

7: Intel Celeron G5920

Avg. Expert Score (2 Reviews)

Mar 10, 2021 · Intel’s Celeron G5920 is a step above its predecessor with a sizable increase in performance, but it’s still slower in most tests than AMD’s lower-list-priced Athlon 200GE—if you can find one. MSRP...

8: Intel Core i7-11700K

Avg. Expert Score (6 Reviews)

May 25, 2021 · The Intel Core i7-11700K ($399 MSRP) is the eight-core, 16-thread desktop CPU that the Core i9-11900K should have been. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X mostly beats it in flat-out performance, but the Core...

9: Intel Core i5-10600K

Avg. Expert Score (16 Reviews)

The six-core, twelve thread Core i5-10600K ticks at a 4.1 GHz and 4.8 GHz boost, and unlike the Core i9 models, Intel doesn't include it's complicated matrix of TurboBoost 3.0 Max and Thermal...

-- tomshardware.com

10: AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT

Avg. Expert Score (12 Reviews)

Jul 07, 2020 · AMD's Ryzen 9 3900XT desktop CPU ($499) follows in the footsteps of product launches like the Intel Core i9-9900KS and the Super line of graphics cards from Nvidia, offering up modestly improved...

11: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

Avg. Expert Score (9 Reviews)

2019-10-16 · AMD's Ryzen 3 3200G is a good-value budget CPU with surprising graphics pep, but its Ryzen 5 kin offers better performance for just a bit more money. MSRP $99.00 $119.95 at Amazon PCMag editors...

12: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT

Avg. Expert Score (12 Reviews)

2020-07-07 · As you can see, the Ryzen 5 3600XT is a six-core, 12-thread desktop processor with a base clock speed of 3.8GHz, a max boost clock of 4.5GHz (up from 4.4GHz in the Ryzen 5 3600X version), an L2...

13: AMD Athlon 200GE

Avg. Expert Score (7 Reviews)

Feb 12, 2020 · The Athlon 200GE utilizes AMD's Zen microarchitecture, which premiered with the Ryzens in early 2017. It has two CPU cores with support for simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology, which...

14: Intel Core i5-11600K

Avg. Expert Score (14 Reviews)

Mar 30, 2021 · The six-core/12-thread Core i5-11600K ($262) shuttles a bit of stability into the launch of Intel's 11th Generation (Rocket Lake) line of newly launched desktop CPUs. The first sign of Rocket...

15: Intel Core i9-9900KS

Avg. Expert Score (14 Reviews)

The Intel Core i9-9900KS is essentially a tweaked Intel Core i9-9900K, which means a lot of the specs carry over. It's still an 8-core, 16-thread processor, with 16MB of cache.

-- techradar.com

16: AMD Ryzen 3 3100

Avg. Expert Score (12 Reviews)

The AMD Ryzen 3 3100 is an incredible release, mainly because it delivers performance that could only be described as mid-range just a year ago, all while keeping the price down to just $99 (about ...

-- techradar.com

17: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

Avg. Expert Score (12 Reviews)

Nov 14, 2019 · The Ryzen 9 3950X lets you jam highly threaded horsepower into an affordable motherboard, creating a new CPU class all its own. Its 16 cores and 32 threads redefines what's possible for the...

-- tomshardware.com

18: AMD Ryzen 3 3300X

Avg. Expert Score (13 Reviews)

Now AMD's new four-core, eight-thread Ryzen 3 3300X beats the 7700K in every benchmark across the board—but for only $120, making it a natural fit for our list of best CPUs and the best value...

-- tomshardware.com

19: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Avg. Expert Score (11 Reviews)

2020-07-29 · The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is the poster child for the AMD Ryzen 3rd Generation processors on the consumer level. Thanks to its new 7nm manufacturing process, it delivers much better performance at a...

-- techradar.com

20: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

Avg. Expert Score (13 Reviews)

Nov 05, 2020 · But in our testing, AMD's next processor down in its new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 stack, the eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800X ($449), puts up a surprisingly powerful challenge to the Core i9-10900K in both...

21: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

Avg. Expert Score (11 Reviews)

Dec 31, 2020 · The Ryzen 5 5600X is a six-core shredder that smooths over the last of the few flaws we saw from Zen 2 and the Ryzen 5 3600X, and it solidifies AMD as the premier desktop CPU manufacturer of 2020...

22: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Avg. Expert Score (14 Reviews)

Nov 05, 2020 · The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X wins every multithreaded test against the Core i9-10900K by meaty margins. Despite the i9-10900K's faster single-core boost clock speeds, the Ryzen 9 5900X still manages to...

23: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

Avg. Expert Score (13 Reviews)

Jul 07, 2019 · With more cores and threads than its chief like-priced Intel competitor, AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X is an excellent 12-core beast of a CPU to power a high-end gaming rig or a multimedia editing station....

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