Intel Core i9-10980XE “Cascade Lake-X” Benchmarked

One of the primary evaluations of Intel’s new flagship HEDT processor, the Core i9-10980XE, simply hit the online. Lab501.ro acquired their arms on a freshly minted i9-10980XE and put it by way of their take a look at bench. Based on the “Cascade Lake-X” silicon, the i9-10980XE provides virtually an identical IPC to “Skylake-X,” however succeeds the older technology with AI-accelerating DLBoost instruction-set, an improved multi-core boosting algorithm, increased clock speeds, and most significantly, a doubling in price-performance achieved by chopping the cores-per-Dollar metric by half, throughout the board.

Armed with 18 cores, the i9-10980XE is forward of the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X in rendering and simulation exams, though not by a lot (for a chip that has 50% extra cores). This might be attributed to the competing AMD chip having the ability to maintain increased all-core enhance clock speeds. In exams that not solely scale with cores, however are additionally hungry for reminiscence bandwidth, reminiscent of 7-zip and Media, Intel extends its lead due to its quad-channel reminiscence interface that is capable of feed its cores with datasets quicker.

As we transfer to gaming and gaming-related 3D benchmarks, we see the i9-10980XE solely marginally forward of the 3900X within the 3DMark Physics take a look at. This lends credibility to the report the place the unreleased 16-core 3950X was seen beating the i9-10980XE on this explicit take a look at. With gaming nonetheless being the forte of mainstream-desktop processors with decrease core counts and better clock-speeds, we see the likes of the i9-9900Ok racing forward on account of considerably increased speeds whereas having ample muscle to deal with video games. Find extra attention-grabbing leads to the Lab501 overview right here.