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: SPEC 1T
A popular industry standard comparison tool between processors are the range of SPEC benchmarks. We use SPEC2006 and SPEC2017 in our major microarchitecture analysis pieces as a way to determine where certain processors might be bottlenecked given a particular microprocessor design decision. For the purposes of this review, we are looking at the aggregate results between some of the other processors we have tested, given that this benchmark has only recently rolled into our regular suite.
All the sub-tests for our SPEC runs are provided in our benchmark database, Bench.
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arashi - Sunday, May 24, 2020 - link
Replacing Stewart with xx does not a clone account make.Try again.
Spunjji - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - link
Good catch XDSpunjji - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - link
You're talking past yourself.Sure, it's impressive what Intel's disaster management engineers managed to pull out the wreckage of their failure at 10nm. Their failure at 10nm was an engineering failure too, though, and they still haven't managed to backport their 10nm-planned architecture to 14nm.
In other words, those engineering failures are the only reason they had to build this crazy nonsense - of which you express such admiration - in the first place.
extide - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
This is not HEDTSpunjji - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - link
He's still reading from the 2016 Intel playbook :DIcehawk - Saturday, May 23, 2020 - link
I care because I like silent machines and use fanless PSUs. I can’t afford to blow 250-300W of the power budget on the CPU when I am limited to 450W, the small difference in real world gaming isn’t worth popping for a higher power PSU that brings with it fan noise. I should be able to run my 3900X with a nV 3070 with what I have, I don’t think I could with this i9.If power budget isn’t a concern then it’s down to brand preference, usage mix, etc to me. I have an intel 8700 as well, at the time I felt that was the best CPU choice, when I needed another new machine a few months ago the 3900 was - I still feel it would be today for me.
YMMV
Spunjji - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - link
Cool, another person who thinks their personal views on a topic outweigh all others and is psychologically projecting that onto the reviewer. This is how 90% of disinformation works now...prophet001 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
I'm curious as to why this only has 16 pcie lanes into the CPU. How much does running your high performance SSD through the PCH or running your GPU in x8 mode affect performance?GreenReaper - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Conveniently, there is an article (almost) about that: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15720/intel-ghost-c...azfacea - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
with intel DIY PC marketshare being well below 50% and 10th gen itself having to compete with 9th, 8th, 7th, with supply shortage and everything I doubt these new LGA1200 motherboards can reach 10% of DIY PC which means the" ... 44+ entrants ranging from $150 all the way up to $1200 ..."
are all massive cash burning operations that would never make sense in a million years w/- intel "development funding". they are literally squandering billions of dollars that they took from ripping of the customers. intel is so stupid, gouging its customers like this and then squandering the money for what ?? LGA 1200 has the option to have pcie 4 by the time its irrelevant ? my god WTF is going on there.