Introducing the all new 10th Generation Intel Core i7 10900F processor, 10th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors are built for the everyday desktop user; this platform delivers amazing performance for everything from mainstream gaming and creation to productivity. In this graph though, we see that in the initial phase, the Core i7-10700K is ever so slightly higher in power consumption, but when the more heavy area in the second stage comes in, both processors are about equal. Processors that support 64-bit computing on Intel® architecture require an Intel 64 architecture-enabled BIOS.

Even though the TDP is 125 W vs 65 W, the peak turbo frequency difference is only +300 MHz, and the all-core turbo difference is only +100 MHz. We also benchmark much more data than is shown in a typical review, all of which you can see in our benchmark database. There’s going to be a lot of discussion on the page where we talk about power, frequency, and the quality of the silicon. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).Intel® Arc™ graphics only available on select H-series Intel® Core™ Ultra processor powered systems with at least 16GB of system memory in a dual-channel configuration.

In the past, we used to assume that it was the peak power consumption of the processor was its TDP rating – after all, a ‘thermal design point’ of a processor was almost worthless if you didn’t account for the peak power dissipation.Although a new (Z490) LGA1200 motherboard is required, it will remain compatible with Rocket Lake CPUs which are due later this year. Based on specifications, this CPU is more inline with i9-9900 but lacking some features such as Thermal Velocity Boost, has lower base clock and boost clock. The bulk of the lineup however are still the versions without a suffix, the ‘nones’, like the Core i7-10700 in this review. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In both circumstances the processors were mainly at their all-core turbo frequencies, (4600 MHz or 4700 MHz), briefly jumping to 5.