in my hands right now are the best gaming cpus that money can buy
representing Intel we've got the brand new eight core core i9 11 900k and
representing AMD we've got the well it's
not brand new but based on how hard these things are to get it is a hot
commodity 16 core ryzen 9 5950x these
are on paper the most powerful tips from
either manufacturer and for our head-to-head battle today we are going
to build a system around each of these with zero compromises we are talking rtx
3090s super fast and low latency memory
ball and motherboards and all in an effort to answer the age-old question of
who really is the fastest for gaming
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as speedy as i might be and as much as i love building computers i'm not going to
build both of these so i brought in my lovely assistant the one and only jekyca
but the question remains who will be building AMD and who will be building
Intel and also how did you manage to get these screwed
up everyone knows and tells the dark side i see all right
winner takes AMD oh sure okay best two to three right of course okay
rock paper scissors rock paper scissors rock paper scissors rock paper scissors
oh i got you on that one yeah that's only not done yet rock paper scissors
rock paper scissors damn it matt you suck at rock paper
scissors oh you got to swap the cases then too oh right okay
there you go traditionally the motherboard's role is just to provide i
o and features so things like how many slots you can plug into or what kind of
wi-fi or high-speed networking is built into your computer but in recent years
cpus have gotten to the point where they draw so
much power and in some cases so much
more power than they are supposed to that the motherboard can inadvertently
play a role in how they perform because
if the power delivery is a not beefy enough or b not cooled well enough it
can actually cause your CPU to throttle
so we have gone basically top of the line on both sides with the maximus 13
hero for our Intel system and the meg
x570 godlike for our AMD system now the
Intel fans out there are probably wondering Linus
you're going up against AMD's best a 16
core ryzen processor i mean why are you handicapping yourself with an 11th gen
which maxes out at just eight cores when Intel's own previous 10th gen processor
had 10 cores and the answer is uh
i'm sorry that's what they made this is what we got hey at least it's
got pci express gen 4. finally
oh damn you were not kidding about the no compromises here this is 3600
megahertz memory from g-skill but not just that
it runs at a cast latency of 14.
that is extremely low latency we're gonna take this four
stick kit we're gonna grab two of them and put them in each system i'm hoping
that both of them are gonna manage to run this at full speed but i guess if
they can't that's kind of on them isn't it and like these are super baller
motherboards so it's not like that's a concern moving on to storage we have gone
absolutely zero compromises with a rocket NVMe 4.0 2 terabyte drive from
sabrint now strictly speaking for gaming
hyper fast storage isn't necessary today but in the future it could be with
microsoft direct storage enabling similar functionality to what we see on
the playstation 5 and xbox series x and
series s with greatly accelerated game loading times compared to traditional
approaches so this is an area where Intel has
finally caught up because rocket lake compared to their 10th gen does have
support for pci express gen 4 storage but we've got to be careful to
use the correct slot that has those gen 4 lanes coming directly off the CPU to
ensure that we don't run into a system bottleneck when it comes to cooling i
already hear what a lot of you are going to say lioness come on rocket lake can
spit like 250 plus watts of heat into
your cooler why are you using an air cooler instead
of a water cooler well the answer is that this is not just any air cooler
okay this is the Noctua nhd15 and it will perform on par or even better than
almost any aio on the market and i only say almost because maybe there's one
that i've never heard of this is a flippin awesome cooler and it's going to
give both Intel and AMD their best chance to shine
now it's time to have a look at our case just like how our cooler can affect
performance so can our case and there's been thankfully a trend towards higher
airflow designs that give better cooling not just to the CPU but also to the
graphics card because we're going to be using rtx 3090s it's extremely important
for the validity of our test that we are not thermally constrained so that is why
this is absolutely freaking perfect
let's pop this off there we go look at that
straight mesh front to back to top for
our power supply we've gone with an 80 plus titanium 1000 watt from c sonic
it's fully modular so you can plug in pretty much whatever the flip you want
into it and it's got adequate current delivery for
the rtx 3090 so we're not going to have our system just
shut off when we're trying to play some video games up in here remember
recommending people like oh 500 watt 600 watt power supplies
anything more than that is a waste well it used to be true
the people that bought the the big donger power supplies back in the day
are are are you know like reeling it in now yeah
they're laughing especially because you can't get one today
oh whoa wow it got kicked in well that's gonna dock you some FPS but they use
such nice foam look how nice this foam is figured out
how to get my power supply in just got to take off these two thumb screws slide
out the hard drive mount because like come on hard drives really i'm just
grabbing a hammer nobody pay attention to me
now you're laying the hammer down get it grab the wrong hammer yeah he's
laying the hammer down again yeah yeah yeah in terms of modular cables all i
need is my 24 pin for the motherboard a SATA for the built-in fan controller
up there actually i can just plug that in right now i need three six plus two
pci express connectors one
two three and then finally
two four plus four pins for the CPU
all right it's time for the big chungus update now
i'm putting in the rtx 3090 black
edition it's not actually called black edition the other one's called white
edition but it's ASUS's rog strix rtx 39
24 gigs of memory the fastest GPU on the
market and there are so many peels on this thing it is going to take me 10
minutes to install it in the flipping computer
no i'm not leaving it andy oh my god there's like nine peels on this thing
now i just got to put my not one not two
but three eight pin pci express power connectors in
meanwhile on the AMD build crap that's
not even close yeah i mean realistically
you know there's not much of a problem with plugging into an 8x slot which all
three of these are but we're going for apples to apples
comparison here and this ain't gonna be it we could put it on a riser no no
no we're not doing that all right new motherboard it is see you later so we
did some digging and we actually found a crosshair eighth hero which is like
actually even better because it's on the same tier as that motherboard is from the same manufacturer so a little bit
less variables there and uh it is equally as badass so this should be
perfect for our test that is one sexy wait we didn't even
didn't even peel the stickers off of here i don't know
how many peels did lioness end up finding there was
a million that's too bad now i can put it in
oh
so wow that is tight
it's so pretty though oh crap man these are these are uh
struggling these are some heavy numbers Jake come
on team bloop no i'm doing good man i don't rock it late to the moon hold on
hold on i just got to elevate my game get it wait you're you're changing the
parameters hold on let me lift mine too at the same time okay all right
elevate what are we doing right now
now in terms of the performance parameters that we're running on these
machines we have kind of overclocked
them but we've done so in both cases so on our Intel CPU we have multi-core
enhancement enabled which basically means that it's allowed to turbo as high
as it wants for as long as it frickin wants as for our AMD system pbo is on as
well so it's basically the same deal you're removing this stock AMD or Intel
limitations and letting the motherboard do as much as it can so what's your core
temps like it looks like for me 70ish
i didn't make it that high but what we know for sure is that neither of them
thermal throttled in any way i've got nos across the board for any kind of
throttling so hey nhg-15
love it what about power usage i capped out a round vault remember this
is according to what they report but i capped out at around 90 watts
so that's like 90 to 100 for me so okay video mode
we're at 4k 143 hertz vsync is off all
these settings look yes perfect benchmark mode i like to do
camera mode cockpit okay and then turn the FPS counter on
probably just so we can see and then go
let's see if i load faster again maybe not that it's a oh
dang it i'm good thing i said it wasn't a measuring contest
can i just take a moment again though to appreciate the quality of the spectators
in this game and the god rays and stuff it looks very good it looks so good i
haven't played f1 2020 i usually only play a set of corsa because you can put
basically any cars you want into the game um and a lot of other games the
modding support is not great but yeah this looks really good it looks
really good that's
pretty close again yeah but i lost yeah thanks for being
charitable about it pretty close but not quite
oh geez should we look at temps oh yeah
for sure i peaked at 62
60-ish or 70-ish for me
power usage was around 80 60 to 80 watts
yeah 100 so that's higher but the moral of the
story is in gaming your Intel CPU probably still not that much of a
furnace it's just if you do anything else
then yeah not only is it hotter but um it will also not perform nearly as well
because we've got literally half as many cores yeah but with that said remember guys
this is not an apples to apples comparison in terms of pricing either
because Intel for the first time in many years is in a position where they launch
new cpus and then immediately slash the pricing the week after the reviews come
out whereas with AMD the 5950x unless you managed to pre-order one three
months ago you can't even buy one at the 750 us dollar msrp yeah oh shoot
uh yeah you're winning this
i'm going based off of our review numbers that this is going to get
all over that remember we've got resizable bar enabled
now though oh which is the new one NVIDIA and actually Anthony found that
in cs go a resizable bar can hurt performance so it's going to come down
to whether AMD or Intel's implementation
hurts less oh yeah you're touching like 900 over
there and i'm going seven eight seven eight at 4k
okay you ready csv is up
how'd we do i think you won my 99th percentile is 110 314.
123. that's not as big of a difference as i
was thinking no but the thing is there's multiple ways to do the math on the price
difference and the performance difference if you look at the cpus you
go oh well AMD costs twice as much and is only ten percent faster bad deal yeah
but if you look at the difference in cost of the entire system is it worth
spending the extra well ladies and gentlemen right now this is like a 3 000
graphics card so should you spend an extra 300 to 400 dollars to get a 10
performance uplift i would think so so there's different ways of kind of
looking at that it's important to keep that in mind especially once it's in stock hopefully whenever that happens
maybe you go with a 5900x which the performance in gaming is going to be
very similar or a 5800x and you're still beating Intel at that
yeah it's pretty rough so what that means is Intel and AMD are
playing a fun little game of role reversal it used to be that AMD was a
perfectly reasonable option but Intel had the best performance in gaming if
you were willing to pay the premium now it's pretty much the opposite of that
it's not like you're getting a bad gaming experience going Intel but if you
want the best of the best AMD's got it on offer i mean and
if you have the wallet to stomach it
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