It appears that the first gaming benchmarks for the upcoming Cascade Lake-X desktop processor, the Intel Core i9 10980XE. This processor comes with 18 cores, supports 36 threads, and can turbo boost on all cores at 3.8GHz. However, it appears that this particular CPU is slower in PC games than both the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and the Intel Core i9 9900K.
The games that Lab501 tested were: Far Cry: New Dawn, Dawn of War 3 and Metro Exodus. In Metro Exodus, the performance difference was minimal (mainly due to the fact that this is mostly a GPU-bound title). In Dawn of War 3, the i9 10980XE was slower by almost 20fps than the i9 9900K and the Ryzen 9 3900X.
The big shocker in the gaming performance, though, comes from Far Cry: New Dawn. As we’ve reported in the past, Far Cry 5 and Far Cry: New Dawn mainly use/stress one CPU core/thread. As such, the Intel i9 10980XE is slower by 31fps than the Intel i9 9900K. It’s also slower by 26fps than the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X.
Now obviously, the Intel i9 10980XE does not target PC gamers. As such, it comes as no surprise that it cannot beat its older i9 high-end gaming models. Moreover, do keep in mind that the i9 9900K can turbo boost to 4.7Ghz (on all cores). In other words, we’re talking about a 1Ghz difference – on all cores – between these two CPUs, something that obviously explains their performance difference.
Before closing, it’s worth noting that Lab501 initially had some issues booting the Intel i9 10980XE. Whether newer BIOS updates – for the motherboards that are currently available on the market – will improve performance remains to be seen.
Kudos to our reader Metal Messiah for bringing this to our attention!
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I’m sure an overclock will help a lot, but Intel’s real secret sauce for gaming performance is there ring bus interconnect between cores (present on its mainstream chips only). These HEDT models use a mesh interconnect, which adds much more latency between core to core operations.
It can be overclocked
Uh yes, that’s exactly what my comment stated.
I only trust 3rd party benchmarks…
This sh.t can be just the best results…..
+i wanna se thermals and powerdraw…..
One normal human here, here you go, this 18 core has INSANE overclocking potential, info from same review.
Watt under load: 266w vs 252w 3900x vs 300w 9900k
Temps Under load: 67c vs 83c 3900x vs 94c 9900k
Off-topic:
Epic Games Store and Windows 10 Store joint exclusive game The Outer Worlds has already been cracked. Codex FTW!
#EpicFail
Is the Game THAT BAD ??
Probably not. The crowd here is very hard to please.
But i get the point that many won’t like the game for many different reasons.
If only we could let political agenda out of the gaming industry
Playing it on xbox game pass. If you liked fallout new vegas.. its practically the same thing. It’s awesome so far!! only complaint was the forced chromatic abberation. but after tweaking a file it looks and plays awesome. Don’t listen to the negative butt hurt people here. people just love to complain about every damn thing here. cancer gamers
Really and you dont notice the forced liberal politics?
huh? its a fun game. sorry im not reading between the lines. I guess go back to playing pokemon
Thats just makes you a sheep that blind to his surroundings.
You dont notice extreme lack of male NPCs? That most important NPCs are women, even soldiers, lack of white people and huge amount of Black, Brown and Asians in a game made in USA?!
That marauders always has males voices but most uniform corporate soldiers are also female.
If you still too stupid to see: This game lacks white people of both genders and 90% of important NPCs are female.
Look below this post at “s_fnx”, he has nice screenshot, typical dumb modern feminazi haircuts and ugly faces.
Sorry i didnt notice because i dont have a racist or discriminatory mind. Too busy having a great time. Gonna block you now. Seriously not into stupid discussion with toxic people
Hey dumb sheep, here is a lesson:
Exclusion of white people = RACISM
Exclusion of Men = MISANDRY
Nah. The people here just love complaining.
If you want a balanced opinion watch gameplay from multiple people on YouTube and judge for yourself.
Thanks for sharing that second pic as it makes me even happier to have sailed the high seas. Mildly amusing to note that a few people here are butthurt by my initial comment.
It’s pretty good. If FO and Rage 2 had a baby.
Not really, just be careful when you create your character. I accidentally put some beard on my female character, almost made me blind
OK. Thanks for your input….Much appreciated.
1) It starts from Character creator, at least for me the first default female character was African, when i used auto generator all the woman had Facial hair [Someone actually programed the option tthat women can have a beard, thats already crazy SJW propaganda] and the amount of Black, Asian, Brown generations vs white is about 95% to 5%.
2) After you start playing you notice that OVERWHELMING majority of Important NPCs including Military personnel are again women, its like all the men are either side character bumbling idiots or evil guys.
3) Its like the game was made in India or Africa, white people are minority, TONS of Indians and Africans thou.
4) Basically so far only one woman and even she was Indian Parvati had some sort of long hair, rest of the “waman” were made to look like those crazy Feminists: Short Haircuts with Red, Purple and Blue hair colors prevailing.
i have to agree on this, i am into about 10 hours of gameplay and i swear all the important/lead characters are women
It’s $5 tho. why even bother
To rent it?
I guess you hate TV, the radio, music streaming, netflix, going to the theatre. Because you are not owning any of those things you enjoy.
Unless you are a sh*t head, why steal anything? I used to when I was a poor college kid. Now that I am an actual adult, and can pay for things, I stopped stealing…. because you know… its a sh**ty immature thing to do.
#EpicFailATlogic
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3770k is king! Lol
My 9900k has excellent performance, really good processor for my use case. I can easily recommend it.
Now obviously, the Intel i9 10980XE does not target PC gamers. As such, it comes as no surprise that it cannot beat its older i9 high-end gaming models
jokes from johnny boy, its good at standup comedy too https://media0.giphy.com/media/2lQCBjuFMLCOvXno4l/giphy.gif
Judging from the results, AMD stays close on lead.
Focusing on the tests it becomes obvious that AMD has been able to keep their ‘turbo bins’ running longer than INTEL, at least for now.
But this CPU will most likely target the upcoming high-end flagship Threadripper 3000 CPU though.
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“But this CPU will most likely target the upcoming high-end flagship Threadripper 3000 CPU though.”
In which it will be completely decimated.
This CPU seems to be an early Engineering SAMPLE, judging from the lackluster results/scores….
It will already lose to the desktop 16 core Ryzen. Just wait until actual Threadripper comes out.
Just wait till Zen 3 Arch with the better cache with cores. Intel gonna be p i s s e d when they see the Zen 3 IPC over Zen 2 😀
That’s what I’m waiting to see. I’m rocking a 3770k over here. I can wait…
Metal Messiah should get hired on this website, since he brings a lot of interesting leaks/rumours and news, all fresh.
😀
My 9900k has excellent performance, really good processor for my use case.
john when are you going to ban this indian spam bot?
So what this article is saying, is that I made the right call going with Ryzen. Thanks, but I already knew that. 😉
who cares if its slower???!!! just buy it goyim!
Ill buy it, 48 CPU attached PCIe lanes, total 72 PCIe lanes + insane overclocking potential:
Watt under load: 266w vs 252w 3900x vs 300w 9900k
Temps Under load: 67c vs 83c 3900x vs 94c 9900k
People with AMD blinders dont see the actual potential here, with such low Temps and watt it can be overclocked rather easily and I have 12 120mm radiator volume
Ill just wait for TR3 benchmark and price, if its near the 1K USD price and can game ill buy it instead, more cores, new platform, why not?! but if its 1400+ USD thats too much for me
Have been playing for couple of hours and I can tell that this is one of the best games this year.