Ryzen 7000 left with a mountain to climb as Intel Alder Lake occupies top 10 places in PassMark single-thread chart while AMD languishes outside top 25

[RobertJasiek]

Even small budget CPUs have more than enough single core performance for your daily tasks.

Cinebench R15 single thread 93+ on Core i is good enough for light multi-tasking, although one notices that it is not the fastest. A decade ago, such a CPU cost €50, nowadays it is closer to €100. The new budget €30 - 50 is too slow for really enjoying light multi-tasking, IMO.

[rs]

Cinebench R15 single thread 93+ on Core i is good enough for light multi-tasking, although one notices that it is not the fastest. A decade ago, such a CPU cost €50, nowadays it is closer to €100.

You can get something like G6900 for ~50 USD/EUR. Which comes close to Ryzen 3600's CB R23 single core score. Ten years ago you didn't get more cores/threads for that money.

[Anonymousgg]

Single-thread performance is obviously important. It's what you'll actually notice in a lot of cases, and an improvement to single-thread peformance obviously improves multi-thread. We are getting to the point where many users will have more cores than they need (8-12).

Zen 4 will smash Alder Lake. Raptor Lake is an open question, but is likely to take back the lead in multi-thread. After that, it depends heavily on rumors .

[Tvegas1980]

How much did intel pay you to write this puff piece?

[systemBuilder22]

What a LIE the Intel 12900 is a single processor it's not six processors this practice of making six variants of their fastest processor by appending different letters to the same name and throwing out features should be disqualified!  And the 5950X is 15% faster overall than the best 12900, which ties the 5900X

[Robert Leone]

Look single thread performance means nothing when you are dealing with a computer.  So many processes once you turn on the computer and the OS starts you are already working from a multi-thread aspect.  Having a claim to fame because of single thread performance is grasping for straws.  Only multi-thread speed matter these days.  Not to mention the TDP difference is slightly laughable and quite honestly means more then performance because honestly performance doesn't change to much the actual speed - it's all about power consumption. 

[Jose]

Single threaded performance is critical to many design applications and honestly most end users work but why desktop parts are an area of conversation for a laptop forum I'm not sure. I thought efficient performance was the focus for mobile users.

[Mack61]

All very interesting...but as a photographer who used Lightroom, Photoshop and a number of 3rd party plugins, all loaded simultaneously, my current homebuilt desktop is an AMD Ryzen and my planned replacement, homebuilt desktop will be a Ryzen 7000 based system. Single threaded performance is important in games and applications which haven't been designed to make proper use of multithreaded cpus...that means non-optimised software to me as multi core, multi threaded processors have been with us for multiple iterations of software

[hs4]

After the launch of Zen3, it was said that most casual game players would be satisfied with 5600X. In fact, in some cases, the 5800X had lower FPS. Intel also has a policy of using up to 8 P-cores and more E-cores beyond that. These policies indicate that:

• For applications that we consumers use on a daily basis, we only need up to 8 fast threads and a few threads to offload trivial tasks.
• For specific applications such as encoders, the total performance of all threads will be important.