The Intel Core i9-9980XE CPU Review: Refresh Until it Hertz
by Ian Cutress on November 13, 2018 9:00 AM ESTHEDT Performance: SYSMark 2018
You either love it or hate it. BAPCo’s SYSMark suite of tests is both an interesting combination of benchmarks but also clouded in a substantial amount of ire. The altruistic original goal was to develop an industry standard suite of real-world tests. AMD (and NVIDIA) left BAPCo several years ago citing that workloads were being chosen on purpose that favoured Intel processors, and didn’t include enough several emerging computing paradigms for the industry. Intel disagrees with that statement, and here we are today.
We run this disclaimer on our SYSMark testing primarily to emphasise that this benchmark suite, while some consider it more than relevant and encompassing a lot of modern professional software, others feel is engineered with specific goals in mind.
We haven’t run SYSMark on every processor, as it requires a fresh OS image compared to our automated suite, and requires refreshing that image every seven days. As a result we are trying to do sets of processors at a time where it makes sense and when time is available.
It’s clear from the Intel comparisons that the i9-9980XE takes a lead here, with a nice bump over the 7980XE of around 7% in the overall test. Given that the 7900X is the best of the Skylake-X processors, it will be interesting to see what the 9900X scores here.
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Stasinek - Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - link
If something is a joke - Threadripper 2920, 2970,2990 is for sure with one exception 2950To have much more weak threads than IF/RAM subsystem is capable handle it's a joke.
Intels HDET despite having less cores is stil just better solution.
Benchmarks yet another series here on this site are best prove of that.
Badelhas - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Intel have been milking us for years, I am still holding to my 2500k overclocked to 5ghz (their last great CPU) and my next CPU is going to be a AMD for sure. Nvidia is doing the same lately, its outrageous.Badelhas - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Oh, I forgot: GREAT REVIEW, Anandtech! Cheers. :)imaheadcase - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Crazy right, its almost like you needed a performance product and bought it.nerd1 - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
My 9900k@5.1Ghz is almost 3X faster than yours considering IPC difference. And seriously, no one's using AMD GPU anymore, either for gaming or gpu computing.benedict - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
No one cares how fast your CPU is and plenty of people who are not obscenely rich use AMD GPUs.nerd1 - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
He said 2500k is intel's last great CPU and I showed him a counterexample.AMD is indeed good if you just need many cores for budget, but that's it.
Aephe - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
Actually, if, like me, you're rendering on Corona (or any CPU render engine in 3ds Max) daily, AMD has the best CPU. Period. The fact my 2990WX is also WAY cheaper than the next best thing from Intel is just an added bonus for my company.Spunjji - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
He's using a different definition of "great CPU" from you. His includes price/performance ratio, yours doesn't. Insisting that your comparison is more valid than his doesn't make any more sense than him doing the same, so if you're going to mock someone's post, maybe avoid the same errors.Arbie - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
How do AMD's GPUs relate to the HEDT CPU market being discussed here? And seriously, can't see any point to your remarks.