Market Overview
We are now a few weeks on from the blastoff of Intel’s Rocket Lake, and the silicon circumstance is still a little upside down. The studies of Intel’s new Core i9 and Core i7 processors are not that favourable, however, the maximum of the processors sold out on liftoff day regardless. The Core i5 Rocket Lake appears to be extra price-competitive, particularly as AMD looks to be concentrating more on the high-cost, high-margin commodity lines right now with silicon stock being limited. This lends Intel the chance to cover the sub-$300 market with as much product as required if they can deliver it.
The leading ones
With that substance said, there aren’t that multiple trends this month in the rates and rage of most processors. Four of Intel’s fourteen Rocket Lake processors are in Amazon’s top seller’s list, entering a high #14 with the Core i7-11700K at $400 and the Core i9-11900K at#15. Amazon appears to only be selling limited models, while all fourteen are recorded at Newegg, beginning at $180 for the Core i5-11400F. The Core i5-11400F looks like to have received the interest of a lot of analysis websites, being the inexpensive model but granting six of Intel’s latest Cypress Cove cores.
The input of these Rocket Lake processors into the demand implies that some of Intel’s former Comet Lake contributions are either being proposed at lower prices or lowered in popularity. The Core i9-10850K previous month was #11 on Amazon’s best-seller, but is now #39, despite occurring narrowly cheaper at $395 (the Core i9-10900F peeks more persuading at $349). Furthermore, the Core i7-10700KF was #17 and presently is #41, at just under $300.
Users demand
Users seeking draw-dropping discounts of the month are not taking off to find much between Intel and AMD right now. Newegg is occasionally driving everyday sales for the odd $10 off here or there, or bundling bargains, but for the maximum part the only price declines we’re discerning in our trackers are from processors that are presently in stock that weren’t formerly. Across our 100+ traced processors, the normal price is up 1% compared to our last guide.
Best CPUs for Gaming this month
Sometimes selecting a CPU is hard. So we’ve got you fastened. We give you our preference of some of the best processors available, providing data from our surveys.
| Segment | Recommendation | |||
| AMD | Intel | |||
| The $400+ CPUs | Ryzen 7 5800X (8C) | $450 | Core i7-11700K (8C) | $400 |
| The $350 CPUs | Ryzen 5 5600X (6C) | $376 | Core i7-11700 (8C) | $340 |
| Core i7-10900F (10C) | $349 | |||
| The $300 CPUs | Ryzen 7 3700X (8C) | $320 | Core i7-10700KF (8C) | $298 |
| – | – | Core i5-11600K (6C) | $265 | |
| The $200 CPUs | Ryzen 5 3600 (6C) | $200 | Core i5-10600KF (6C) | $200 |
| Core i5-11500 (6C) | $220 | |||
| Core i5-11400F (6C) | $180 | |||