I play some games but mostly it's productivity, video and photo editing.
Here's what I've noticed so far:
- Lightroom is way faster. Processing, importing, exporting and editing, it just feels instant now and batch exports that took just above an hour before takes around 20 minutes now.
- Gaming, the 1% lows and overall minimum fps has risen up and become completely sustained. Cyberpunk 2077 would struggle with RTX enabled at 2560x1080 before and hover in the 40fps range when RTX was set to Ultra and DLSS set to balanced. All other settings on Ultra. With this CPU it's now 60fps and none of the dips that I used to see on the 6700K. CPU utilisation is 35% ish with the 2070 Super at 99% with these settings now. Thread Director puts all threads to use as well so that 35% isn't just under a handful of cores, all 20 threads are utilised which is great to see and their usage is even:
(The E-Cores are the last 4 threads)
My 6700K used to regularly hit 90 degrees under full load too but this just hovers around 75 degrees max and that's when exporting in Lightroom. Gaming temps are 60-65, normal usage temps are below 30 degrees.
if you do just gaming and some productivity then the 12600K would be the one I'd go for. Cheaper but still has 6 P cores and 4 E cores totalling 16 threads. Very powerful for gaming and will easily lunch through games for years if kept well fed with a modern GPU.
