Intel Core i9-9980XE CPU Review: Still Too Expensive
Shadow Of War and Project CARS 2
Middle-earth: Shadow Of War
- Middle-earth Shadow of War - FPS - 1920x1080, DirectX11 Ultra
- Middle-earth Shadow of War - FrameTimeoB - 1920x1080, DirectX11 Ultra
- Middle-earth Shadow of War - AvFPSoB - 1920x1080, DirectX11 Ultra
Shadow of War leans heavier on graphics resources than host processing, so we don't see large deltas between the fastest and slowest CPUs. Keep this in mind when shopping for your next gaming processor: modern games respond more readily to cards on the high-end of the GPU hierarchy than powerful CPUs. This is doubly true as you scale up to 2560x1440 and 3840x2160.
Project CARS 2
- Project CARS 2 - FPS - 1920x1080, DirectX12 Ultra Detail
- Project CARS 2 - FrameTimeoB - 1920x1080, DirectX12 Ultra Detail
- Project CARS 2 - AvFPSoB - 1920x1080, DirectX12 Ultra Detail
Although Project CARS 2 is purportedly optimized for threading, clock rates obviously affect frame rates. The Core i9-9900K consequently makes up for its "meager" eight-core configuration with a blistering 5 GHz dual-core Turbo Boost bin for first place.
Overclocking Core i9-7980XE to 4.2 GHz yields an impressive speed-up, and we expect that the -9980XE will match or exceed those results once we have a chance to tune it.
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Does this turn off many of the TR's cores? If yes, then these benchmarks are no good right?
That's just super weird man! Are you sure what you're talking about???
Did Intel officially announce Skylake-X Refresh be manufactured on 14++ node?
9980XE Stepping is the same as 7980XE.
Stepping is 4, there is no change.
Accepted, and recommended, practice when benching Threadripper chips. There would be a lot more to complain about if we didn't flip them into game mode.
Intel confirmed that it is in fact 14nm++.
As did all other reviewers. Because this chip is aimed at gamers, too.
We use the integrated PCMark 8 test that runs the suite. however, it does not include Premiere.
Wow your answer is so specific and it totally answers the questions I asked you. pffffft.. Sheer Incompetence.
The AMD processors wouldn't perform as well if we toggled off game mode and tested the AMD processors. Hence, AMD created the game mode to boost performance in latency-sensitive applications, such as games.
^^^Exactly what he/she said.