The Intel Core i9-9990XE Review: All 14 Cores at 5.0 GHz
by Dr. Ian Cutress on October 28, 2019 10:00 AM ESTCPU Performance: Office Tests
The Office test suite is designed to focus around more industry standard tests that focus on office workflows, system meetings, some synthetics, but we also bundle compiler performance in with this section. For users that have to evaluate hardware in general, these are usually the benchmarks that most consider.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
3DMark Physics: In-Game Physics Compute
Alongside PCMark is 3DMark, Futuremark’s (UL’s) gaming test suite. Each gaming tests consists of one or two GPU heavy scenes, along with a physics test that is indicative of when the test was written and the platform it is aimed at. The main overriding tests, in order of complexity, are Ice Storm, Cloud Gate, Sky Diver, Fire Strike, and Time Spy.
Some of the subtests offer variants, such as Ice Storm Unlimited, which is aimed at mobile platforms with an off-screen rendering, or Fire Strike Ultra which is aimed at high-end 4K systems with lots of the added features turned on. Time Spy also currently has an AVX-512 mode (which we may be using in the future).
In simpler titles like Ice Storm, having that high frequency causes the 9990XE to be the best physics calculator for this test that we have.
GeekBench4: Synthetics
A common tool for cross-platform testing between mobile, PC, and Mac, GeekBench 4 is an ultimate exercise in synthetic testing across a range of algorithms looking for peak throughput. Tests include encryption, compression, fast Fourier transform, memory operations, n-body physics, matrix operations, histogram manipulation, and HTML parsing.
I’m including this test due to popular demand, although the results do come across as overly synthetic, and a lot of users often put a lot of weight behind the test due to the fact that it is compiled across different platforms (although with different compilers).
We record the main subtest scores (Crypto, Integer, Floating Point, Memory) in our benchmark database, but for the review we post the overall single and multi-threaded results.
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Arc1t3ct - Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - link
I'd like to see the cinebench score for this cpu. It's probably the single most important performance metric for Architects and engineers.ballsystemlord - Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - link
Spelling error:"Blender can take advantage of more cores, and whule the frequency of the 9990XE helps compared to the 7940X, it isn't enough to overtake 18-core hardware."
"while", not "whule":
"Blender can take advantage of more cores, and while the frequency of the 9990XE helps compared to the 7940X, it isn't enough to overtake 18-core hardware."
ballsystemlord - Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - link
What's interesting about this processors benchmarks is that even at 5.0GHz AMD's Zen2 processors are still fairly close. -- Not that I'm trying to attract fanboys, it's just interesting to compare the IPC, memory latency, etc.TitovVN1974 - Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - link
IMHO, Linpack (Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) Benchmarks) with not-too-many cores gives good upper bound estimation of practically obtainable perfomance in engineering and science.ballsystemlord - Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - link
But only for Intel processors...edwardhchan - Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - link
Caseking is selling them for 1799 Euro with stock promised from Nov. 12.... So I guess the demand is low?cschlise - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
As I look at this and the struggle to make predictable quantum computing hardware, I see us reaching an inflection point where "traditional" methods will have to adapt a hybrid quantum piece because the features will have shrunk to the point where quantum effects become the norm, vice the exception.cschlise - Thursday, October 31, 2019 - link
What all this testing is showing me is that I should buy a mainstream Ryzen 9 3900X for $530 at newegg right now.yetanotherhuman - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
Wow. There are times when it doesn't even touch a 3900X. This is not a desirable product.Icehawk - Friday, November 1, 2019 - link
So no latency testing of any kind... which is what this machine is about.