Question What's the current best CPU for consumers on the market regardless of price?

[mujmuj]

i9-12900KS ? According to this link (Intel® Core™ i9 Processors ) , i9-12900KS has the best Max Turbo Frequency and the highest core numbers simultaneously.

But what does that "S" mean at the end? Last time I made the mistake of buying i9-12900KF, which later I learnt from this forum that "F" means it doesn't have the integrated graphics. So perhaps "S" also mean something I didn't expect?

And what about the other companies like AMD?

My only use is computation power for my big data (>30GB) statistical analysis.

 

[mujmuj]

"Speed can also be important when managing large datasets. Adding new variables is nearly 100 percent parallelized, and sorting is 61 percent parallelized.

Some procedures are not parallelized and some are inherently sequential, meaning they run the same speed in Stata/MP."

This means that not all work can be run in parallel.
In particular sorting 39% can not run in parallel.

Early passmark ratings for the 7950x with 32 threads show an impressive
rating of 64572 when all threads are fully utilized.
The single thread performance rating is 4362 which is also very good.
You could do worse.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+9+7950X&id=5031

By comparison, the I9-13900K also has 32 threads and a rating of 54433/4833
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i9-13900K&id=5022

fwiw, threadripper 3970X with 64 threads is 63548/2686
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+Threadripper+3970X&id=3623

Thank you so much. It seems 7950x is indeed good.

 

[geofelt]

Thank you so much. It seems 7950x is indeed good.

Yes, the 7950X is indeed good and probably the best around today.
But, on Oct 20, the 13900K will be released and that promises to be even better.
In the wings set to be available early next year is the I9-13900KS which is a well binned 13900K that can perform even better.
Here is a early comparison:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-core-i9-13900ks-rips-ryzen-9-7950x-in-early-benchmark

If price is no object, , build using the 13900K and later change the cpu to the 13900KS.