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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euler007 - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
And exotic sports car aren't real products because they don't make millions of them.nandnandnand - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
Do they auction them off?If you want high single thread performance from Intel, grab a quad-core.
rrinker - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
IN a way - they absolutely do. You get 'invited' to by one of those limited production supercars, you don't just walk into a dealer and say here's my 2.5 million. You earn the invitation based on how many other cars by that manufacturer you already own. Want a 1 of 250 Ferrari supercar? If you don;t own any other Ferraris, good luck, even if you have plenty of money to pay for it.29a - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
Everything is for sale it doesn't matter how many Ferraris you have it matters how many $100 bills you have.vladx - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
There are cars you simply can't buy no matter how much money you have, unless you're part of an exclusive club.29a - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link
No there aren't, everything is for sale, you just don't have enough money.shadowx360 - Monday, October 28, 2019 - link
No, speaking as someone that has walked into a Ferrari dealer with someone trying to buy a Ferrari, the other poster is absolutely right. You cannot walk into a Ferrari dealer and pick up a limited model no matter how many dollar bills you have. Even for something like a 488GTB, you will be waiting years unless you buy every option on the car and lease a crappy model like a California to move up in the queue. You can buy used ones in cash but with Ferrari, they rather protect their brand than cater to new money.29a - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link
You didn't have enough money.abufrejoval - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link
With *enough* money, you can buy Ferrari and make them sell it, too.It's tautological.
Good thing, though: By they time someone controls that amount of money, they'd see the futility.
arashi - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link
With enough money you can just buy Ferrari. Everything that has a price tag can be had, just depends on the depth of the wallet.