The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPU Review: Skylake We Go Again
by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 20, 2020 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Skylake
- 14nm
- Z490
- 10th Gen Core
- Comet Lake
Gaming: Final Fantasy XV
Upon arriving to PC earlier this, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console, fruits of their successful partnership with NVIDIA, with hardly any hint of the troubles during Final Fantasy XV's original production and development.
In preparation for the launch, Square Enix opted to release a standalone benchmark that they have since updated. Using the Final Fantasy XV standalone benchmark gives us a lengthy standardized sequence to record, although it should be noted that its heavy use of NVIDIA technology means that the Maximum setting has problems - it renders items off screen. To get around this, we use the standard preset which does not have these issues.
Square Enix has patched the benchmark with custom graphics settings and bugfixes to be much more accurate in profiling in-game performance and graphical options. For our testing, we run the standard benchmark with a FRAPs overlay, taking a 6 minute recording of the test.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Even though our settings combinations end up being GPU limited very quickly, the Intel CPUs still appear near the top if not at the top.
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schujj07 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
That doesn't make any sense. The Crysis CPU render is new as of the Ryzen 3300X review from 2 WEEKS ago. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15774/the-amd-ryzen...catavalon21 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
AMD is shown leading in many CPU tests dollar for dollar or watt for watt.Achaios - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Chipzilla, due to its greed, got us back to the Heat Output of 2008 processors such as the Yorkfield QX 9650.Lookup "Overclocking Intel's New 45nm QX9650: The Rules Have Changed" by Anandtech, and check the thermal output of the QX 9650.
I don't see why any enthusiast would buy these overpriced and bad cpus. I certainly won't.
t.s - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Never underestimate intel fanboys. This statement is copied from fb comment section about Ryzen 4000 will have 20% IPC uplift rumour:"AMD is made for applications like streaming. Intel is made for the other 90% of the market that relies on the single core performance. Yes, most of the industry still relies on Single core performance. Maybe know your industry before making a comment"
tipoo - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
TIL I'm a streamer. I didn't think data science was all that interesting!Cooe - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Seems Intel took a good hard look a the FX-9590 and was like... "Yup. Let's do that. It'll work for sure this time, I promise!"WaltC - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Bingo...;)plonk420 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
a) thanks for showing core to core latencies! b) so this doesn't have TSX?Calypto - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Why not throw in a Coffee Lake inter-core latency chart for comparison?Calypto - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
ignore me I'm stupid