Buying gaming hardware in South Africa can be a daunting task. The exchange rate and local pricing can cause product value to vary relative to international standards.
If you’re building or upgrading a performance-oriented gaming rig, chances are you’ll want to include an Intel CPU capable of handling modern games.
We’ve collected the pricing and performance data for a wide range of Intel gaming processors and calculated a value score measured in performance per rand.
Performance is measured by an individual processor’s PassMark Score.
Because we want to depict an accurate difference in performance per rand, we have used pricing from a single source in order to avoid discrepancies in value score.
Pricing data is taken from Rebeltech and is accurate at the time of writing.
Check out our Intel processor value comparison below:
|
Processor
|
PassMark Score
|
Price
|
Value Score
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-4460 3.20GHz | 6,607 | R3,382 | 1.95 |
| Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz | 7,193 | R3,631 | 1.98 |
| Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz | 7,604 | R4,216 | 1.80 |
| Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz | 7,696 | R4,525 | 1.70 |
| Intel Core i7-4790 3.60GHz | 10,000 | R5,686 | 1.76 |
| Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz | 11,188 | R6,229 | 1.80 |
| Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz | 5,478 | R2,129 | 2.57 |
| Intel Core i3-6300 3.80GHz | 5,803 | R2,621 | 2.21 |
| Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz | 6,530 | R3,382 | 1.93 |
| Intel Core i5-6500 3.20GHz | 7,025 | R3,643 | 1.93 |
| Intel Core i5-6600 3.30GHz | 7,607 | R3,987 | 1.90 |
| Intel Core i5-6600K 3.50GHz | 7,784 | R4,344 | 1.79 |
| Intel Core i7-6700 3.40GHz | 9,981 | R6,343 | 1.57 |
| Intel Core i7-6700K 4.00GHz | 10,994 | R6,391 | 1.72 |
| Intel Core i7-6800K 3.40GHz | 13,759 | R8,126 | 1.69 |
| Intel Core i7-6900K 3.20GHz | 17,526 | R19,461 | 0.90 |
| Intel Core i7-6950X 3.0GHz | 19,918 | R31,255 | 0.64 |
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