TSMC 7nm FinFET. CMOS. But, if you’re playing games such as Fortnite or PUBG, and you’re using competitive settings, then you'll see double-digit gains with the 10600K.For this review we’re going to look exclusively at results for Intel CPUs that aren’t power limited, so no TDP limited testing. Up to 4.2GHz. Of course, there are other benefits of the higher end Core i7 and Core i9 CPUs such as a large L3 cache, but in most games they probably won’t be that much faster. A decent performance boost that gets the 10600K in range of the 10700K and 10900K -- not quite the same level, but certainly comparable performance.Those margins change slightly at 1440p, here the 10600K was 8% faster than the 3700X and 3600, while it was only 6% behind the 10700K and 10900K.Anyway, in terms of performance the 10600K is very similar to the 8700K and that means that while it's able to match the average frame rate of the 9900K, 10700K and 10900K, it was about 8% slower when looking at the 1% low data.Performance at 1440p is again strong, though as expected the margins do close up but even so the 10600K is still 8% faster than the 3700X.Moving on to the gaming benchmarks we have Battlefield V up first with the 1080p results using a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card.
That meant it was slightly faster than the Ryzen 5 3600, but 24% slower than the 3700X.Looking at compression performance we see that the 10600K is very similar to the 8700K, this time beating it by a small margin. As a result the 10600K was just a few frames slower than the 10700K and 10900K, while it beat the 3700X by a 5% margin.What all that means is, for roughly the same price AMD is offering more cores and that will undoubtedly result in better productivity performance. That made it 4% faster than the 8700K and 10% faster than the 3700X, so a very solid result here for the new 6-core Intel processor.The overclocked results are not as impressive in Rainbow Six Siege, here we’re gaining just a few extra frames on average, though we do see an 8% increase in 1% low performance, so a fairly decent performance uplift still.Regardless of your decision, as of writing it’s simply not possible to purchase the Core i5-10600K. The Ryzen 5 3600 comes clocked at 3.6 GHz for the base and 4.2 GHz for the boost, the 3600X runs 200 MHz faster at 3.8 GHz and 4.4 GHz, so a 6% base clock increase and a 5% boost clock increase. It was slower than the Ryzen 5 3600 and quite a bit slower than the 3700X.Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a very GPU limited title, even at 1080p with the mighty RTX 2080 Ti.