The Intel Core i9-9900KS Review: The 5 GHz Consumer Special
by Dr. Ian Cutress on October 31, 2019 10:45 AM ESTGaming: F1 2018
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
We use the in-game benchmark, set to run on the Montreal track in the wet, driving as Lewis Hamilton from last place on the grid. Data is taken over a one-lap race.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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prophet001 - Monday, November 4, 2019 - link
I mainly play WoW and this would do a much better job than a 3900.Why does that tilt people?
Qasar - Monday, November 4, 2019 - link
you sure about that ??? i have 2 comps, both with a asus strix 1060 gaming OC, one with a 5930k, the other with an FX 8350, both max eye candy less AA ( 4x ) and AF ( 4x as well i think ) , and get about the same FPS. the 3900 will prob use less power over this.MDD1963 - Thursday, November 7, 2019 - link
I'm surprised an FX8350 can saturate a GTX1060, but, you maxing out the details and quality is the only reason the FX keeps up...; it's like saying the i5-8400 matches the 9900KS at 4k with a GTX1070. (Of course it does)eek2121 - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
bwahahah, have you looked at the benchmarks? Enjoy your 3-5 extra FPS in gaming. ;)Korguz - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
and the added power usage....Chaitanya - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
Also comes with only 1 year warranty. By special it really should mean mentally defective edition.amnesia0287 - Friday, November 8, 2019 - link
How many people ever actually use the warranty anyway lol.Samus - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
Because it's drop-in compatible with the poor sap who isn't getting enough from the cheap Walmart i3 gaming PC they overpaid for.Unfortunately AMD just doesn't have the presence in retail to gloat that. Ironic, because traditionally AMD has had a superior upgrade path, keeping sockets longer and (provided motherboard vendors support their boards) new microcode support via BIOS updates.
josiasmat - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
I find it funny that in the past Intel CPUs were praised for their power efficiency over AMD ones. Now that AMD has a 65W CPU that is almost as fast as the reviewed CPU, it doesn't matter at all...Sivar - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
Indeed, the 7nm process is clearly a win here. That said, total platform power with Intel (9900KS excluded!) still tends to be lower very similar or even lower, in part due to the rather power-hungry 14nm AMD 570x chipset.470x-based AMD systems still win in most cases, but not by an extremely large amount.