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: Grand Theft Auto V
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA in tow to help optimize the title. GTA doesn’t provide graphical presets, but opens up the options to users and extends the boundaries by pushing even the hardest systems to the limit using Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine under DirectX 11. Whether the user is flying high in the mountains with long draw distances or dealing with assorted trash in the city, when cranked up to maximum it creates stunning visuals but hard work for both the CPU and the GPU.
For our test we have scripted a version of the in-game benchmark. The in-game benchmark consists of five scenarios: four short panning shots with varying lighting and weather effects, and a fifth action sequence that lasts around 90 seconds. We use only the final part of the benchmark, which combines a flight scene in a jet followed by an inner city drive-by through several intersections followed by ramming a tanker that explodes, causing other cars to explode as well. This is a mix of distance rendering followed by a detailed near-rendering action sequence, and the title thankfully spits out frame time data.
There are no presets for the graphics options on GTA, allowing the user to adjust options such as population density and distance scaling on sliders, but others such as texture/shadow/shader/water quality from Low to Very High. Other options include MSAA, soft shadows, post effects, shadow resolution and extended draw distance options. There is a handy option at the top which shows how much video memory the options are expected to consume, with obvious repercussions if a user requests more video memory than is present on the card (although there’s no obvious indication if you have a low end GPU with lots of GPU memory, like an R7 240 4GB).
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+++++++.