The Intel Core i9-9980XE CPU Review: Refresh Until it Hertz
by Ian Cutress on November 13, 2018 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Far Cry 5
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). We use the in-game benchmark for our data, and report the average/minimum frame rates.
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| Far Cry 5 | FPS | Mar 2018 |
DX11 | 720p Low |
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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nexuspie - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Marketing doesn't work in tech. Tech buyers aren't dumb. People want performance, and today that's Intel by far. On a per-core basis it creams the competitor.Arbie - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Ironically stated in pure marketing-speak.Tech buyers know that shouting "performance" is meaningless out of context - and that includes a lot more than clock speed. For example price, power, cooling, cores, threading, features, platform, socket life... the list goes on. All conveniently ignored in a slogan like yours, which could have come from an Intel ad.
Spunjji - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
He's dropping classic lines from the "I am an empowered, smart individual and marketing doesn't work on me" playbook. I find it's usually a line trotted out by people on whom marketing works absolute miracles.Kilnk - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
I've been reading your comments and I love your style.Arbie - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
"there’s no point advertising a magical 28-core 5 GHz CPU ... if only one in a million hits that value."Sure there is: to confuse the market and draw attention away from the competition. As at Computex in June.
twtech - Thursday, November 15, 2018 - link
How about 4.5 GHz?eva02langley - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
So many refreshes, and so little supply on the shelves.jospoortvliet - Friday, November 16, 2018 - link
Takes only 9 weeks to be delivered I suppose? And that is just the promise - delays likely.Cooe - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Rofl, and the second you look at the price tags, anyone with half a piece of common sense would realize that buying an i9-9980XE over a TR-2950X is absolutely freaking ridiculous! (Unless you simply NEED AVX-512 that is). Intel's flailing with Skylake.... again..., while AMD's near finished changing the game entirely with 7nm Zen 2, and it's all honestly pretty damn hilarious. Karma's a b**ch and all that lol.benedict - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Agreed, the 2950X offers the best value in the HEDT segment.