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: 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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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.