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
CPU Performance: Synthetic Tests
As with most benchmark suites, there are tests that don’t necessarily fit into most categories because their role is just to find the peak throughput in very particular coding scenarios. For this we rely on some of the industry standard tests, like Geekbench and Cinebench.
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.
LinX: LINPACK
The main tool for ordering the TOP500 computer list involves running a variant of an accelerated matrix multiply algorithm typically found from the LINPACK suite. Here we use a tool called LinX to do the same thing on our CPUs. We scale our test based on the number of cores present in order to not run out of scaling but still keeping the test time consistent.
This is another of our new tests for 2020. Data will be added as we start regression testing older CPUs.
Cinebench R20
The Cinebench line of tests is very well known among technology enthusiasts, with the software implementing a variant of the popular Cinema4D engine to render through the CPU a complex scene. The latest version of Cinebench comes with a number of upgrades, including support for >64 threads, as well as offering a much longer test in order to stop the big server systems completing it in seconds. Not soon after R20 was launched, we ended up with 256 thread servers that completed the test in about two seconds. While we wait for the next version of Cinebench, we run the test on our systems in single thread and multithread modes, running for a minimum of 10 minutes each.
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Beany2013 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Aside - I just priced up the 3600, 3700x, 10600k and 10900k in the UK.Oh dear Intel. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
And that's before you talk about cooling. My word.
WaWaThreeFIVbroS - Thursday, May 21, 2020 - link
Half claimed that author is an AMD shill? I only saw one lol, keep living in your fantasiesBesides, what danny said is true, the price listed on this article is highly misleading, this place is going downhill ever since the purch dudes or whatever their names are right now boight anandtech lol
WaWaThreeFIVbroS - Thursday, May 21, 2020 - link
Bought*WaWaThreeFIVbroS - Thursday, May 21, 2020 - link
Half claimed that author is an AMD shill? I only saw one lol, in the entire comment section, keep living in your fantasies, shillBesides, what danny said is true, the price listed on this article is highly misleading, 3900X can be found for low 400$, and the 488$ for 10900K is a bulk price, this place is going downhill ever since the purch dudes or whatever their names are right now bought anandtech lol
Meteor2 - Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - link
Are you OK?trivik12 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
terrible product but its still impressive that it has single core performance to hold against latest Ryzen processor. I wonder when Rocketlake will release and then hopefully we see 10/7nm desktop in 2022 at least.At least Tigerlake in notebook looks good as clockspeeds are up big time and icelake already has shown good single threaded performance. Tigerlake-H/U/Y should be welcome additions.
casperes1996 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Reminds me of back when Steve Jobs went on stage and talking about how the advertisement team got inspired by how hot Intel chips ran compared to IBM's Power chips and showed this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g15RwcVMXsc
Replace the "Apple Computer" bit with AMD and it's almost applicable today
Maxiking - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Great cpu, god bless Intel, AMD duct tape technology demolished in gaming again. How does Intel keep doing it? It is like watching magician pulling rabbits out of a hat!Dug - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Except several show the 9900k better than their new cpu! How is that magic?Beany2013 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Magical *thinking* dug. You know, not based in reality.