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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AnarchoPrimitiv - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Should I repost the countless comments made by Intel fanboys claiming that the fans on x570 meant the sky is falling? Don't try to ambush people with the accusation of a double standard when your side drew first bloodIrata - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
The double standard was exactly my point. End of the world for X570 for own 50-60mm fan back then, Crickets chirping for several 40mm fans on Z490 now.Makaveli - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
its one small fan and its inaudible I haven't heard mine ever. The only people complaining about this is people who still thinking they are dealing with motherboards from the 1990's.shing3232 - Thursday, May 21, 2020 - link
They're worrying about longevity of the fans.yeeeeman - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
All x570 motherboards had fans that was the problem. Here some specific models doRSAUser - Thursday, May 21, 2020 - link
The above.I've tweaked the fan curve on my motherboards, it's never kicked in yet.
ryao - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Why are there data points from AMD missing in a number of tests. For example, the Crysis CPU render is missing data points for all of AMD’s processors except the 3600.schujj07 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
Crysis CPU render "This is one of our new benchmarks, so we are slowly building up the database as we start regression testing older processors."They are in the middle of updating the entire suite. That means that not every CPU has been tested with in the new suite so the only data available is from CPUs that have been tested.
gagegfg - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
bad anandtech policy, thus confuse users. If they pay attention to the amount of unsubstantiated comments, they are targeted for those graphics, confusing users with "superiority of intel" ... and this is not the case
DannyH246 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link
haha - yeah exactly. Anything where AMD would be ahead...."oh our database is light"