It’s a Cascade of 14nm CPUs: AnandTech’s Intel Core i9-10980XE Review
by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 25, 2019 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark which offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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rolfaalto - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
For me the most important CPU features are AVX512, very high Ghz, and lots of fast memory. Plenty of PCI lanes are a significant plus, because they feed all the Volta GPUs ... which of course are PCIe-3. I don't care much about high core counts because that's the point of the GPUs. Mainly I need a few very fast cores to handle all the stuff that can't be massively parallelized. So, this chip checks all the boxes, especially at half the price! :-)blobcat - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Looking at the retailers today, the price landed at about $60 higher than prices listed here (and everywhere else leading up to release). 10900x is $649, 10920x is $749, etcIrata - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
That's because the price given was a price when buying 1,000 units. I think the article even stated that.Holliday75 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
It says the following at the bottom of page 1."*Intel quotes OEM/tray pricing. Retail pricing will sometimes be $20-$50 higher."
blobcat - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Yes I saw that, but thought it might be helpful to some to know actual retail pricing. Also worth noting that the markup landed at the high end of the range given and then some.Dorkaman - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
How about some overclocking prime95 non avx stable. I'd love to see it against an overclocked 9900KS in games and rendering tests.Dionysos1234 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Why no discussion of (lack of) ecc memory support?Jorgp2 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
That's probably baked into the chipset, and couldn't be added in if they wanted to.That's just Intel's idiotic product segmentation from the original launch biting them in the ass.
SBKch - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Could you add Ryzen 3950X to web benchmarks as I've noticed that it's missing?Sychonut - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Awesome! Looking forward to next generation on 14+++++++.