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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phexac - Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - link
“That's just a bunch of hogwash. You couldn't dig a straight line from Chicago to Jersey. It's just fancy sounding hogwash meant to convince those without the logic or background to see it for the hogwash it is. It's no more true than grimm's fairy tales.“I love how the less a particular poster knows about this issue, the angrier they get and the more certain they sound about the nonsense they spout.
Slash3 - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
The secret DIMMs look like the same Samsung B-die based G.Skill ARES used in their 9900K blade.https://www.servethehome.com/icc-vega-r-116i-revie...
colonelclaw - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
I dunno, it may be absolutely terrible value for money, and not even obtainable by pretty much the entire world's population, but I do like it when a tech company does something because they can, not because they should. It's this sort of attitude that keeps us all evolving.nathanddrews - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
At the end of the day, life is all about bragging rights. I'd never buy this, but I'd love to have it!mooninite - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
Why would you love to have it? Just because it is an Intel CPU? The same company that has *hardware* security vulnerabilities? A much cheaper Ryzen system is shown to be just as fast as this product...Retycint - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
It's really amusing to see how some people get so triggered over the mere mention of IntelGreenReaper - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link
It's shocking to see support for Intel, even though their name is a shorthand for the intelligence agencies!Retycint - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link
It's also very amusing to see you immediately assume I'm an Intel supporter29a - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
That's a strange take on life.colonelclaw - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
Exactly! It's just a bit of fun. As a product, it would be useless for my day job, but an absolute hoot in my gaming pc back at home. Who cares that it's pointless, and overpriced by a factor of five? I'm never going to buy it, and neither is anybody else here.