oh 6 a.m
why i just said this oh wait
the review embargo just lifted on Intel's new CPU i gotta go check out the
wall of videos from all my favorite channels about the exact same damn thing
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i'm gonna have to be honest with you guys this
is not a very interesting product on its
own merit and it's a lot more straightforward than the other launches
that we've had this year but don't stop watching because there is a
twist so normally we'd talk about what's
different between the 18 core core i9 9980xc and its brother the 18 core
7980xe but you might have noticed that i said
brother not cousin predecessor that's
because these two are so similar that they're almost twins there's been no new
manufacturing process no more cores no
more cash no more pci express lanes no
memory frequency or capacity improvement nor even a slight refresh of an existing
chipset so that we can all run out and buy new motherboards
so then how did they push the clock speeds higher have they raised the TDP so that
it can just suck back more juice and run laps around the previous extreme edition
no no they did not so how does it go faster
well we know from past experience that Intel has been treating the TDP ratings
of their cpus more like guidelines for cooler design than actual
power consumption specifications so let's take a look at the one thing that
they did change just like the 9th gen
consumer 9900k our
9th gen hedt though it should be noted
that architecturally they're more like 8th and 6th generation respectively
9980xc gets a soldered heat spreader so maybe
the idea here is that as long as a cooler spec for Intel's TDP rating can
handle the CPU with nice low temps then
we're cool and it can it can turbo up more solder should help with that
let's see by how much now
given that it comes in at the same price as the outgoing 7980xe
the 9980xc only really has to perform
marginally better to come away with a strong recommendation here
no i'm sorry i'm just kidding so we're going to be comparing it to AMD's
offerings and Intel's own mainstream
platform and i think it's going to be a little rough
yeah it's a little rough even with its
higher bass and boost clocks gaming
really isn't this CPU's forte now there's no reason why it can't game
but it's immediately obvious why it shouldn't Intel's consumer cpus tooled
the 9980xes predecessors and the only
changes here are that it picks up a couple points in directx 12 and in the
very frequency dependent cs go but productivity is the real bread and
butter of an HDD chip anyway and here we do get some pretty big jumps
in performance over last gen especially in 7-zip and cinebench both in single
threaded and multi-threaded modes a trend that continues down the line
with decent results in adobe premiere and blender where the base clock
increase becomes more significant the longer the render takes to complete
with that said red ripper thanks to its lower pricing
and higher core counts continues to either compete valiantly or make Intel
look downright stupid across most of the productivity suite
now some of you may have noticed that the improvement in performance over last
gen is really inconsistent if this thing is just
200 megahertz higher across the spec sheet
then all other things being equal which
they are we should be able to pretty much guess
the uplift but we've got tests here that barely improved at all even after
multiple runs well
after further digging we think we've reached the bottom of it if we look at
our thermal results on first glance it looks like we're getting better thermals
than our 7980xe and with lower power draw
but by going deeper we think we discovered the reason that Intel has refused to say
what their all-core boost multipliers are
so our avx-512 stress test had this CPU
running at just 2.8 gigahertz across all
cores that is lower than the base clock
of the 9980xc and coincidentally the
same as the base clock on the 7980xc it
replaces so users of avx 512 workloads
yeah you're not getting an upgrade today at all
switching to avx-2 got us to 3.3
gigahertz that's just a hundred megahertz over the 7980xe with increases
in both temperatures and power draw then turning avx off all together netted
us a healthy 3.8 gigahertz all-core boost that's 400 megahertz higher than
the 7980xes so that's where the performance increase
in non-avx workloads like gaming is
coming from but it also resulted in more power draw
with our 9980xc easily surpassing every
other CPU we tested in this scenario so the bottom line is this this new sku
seems to be basically a 7980xe
with a different voltage curve which allows its better bind die to draw less
power at 2.8 gigahertz with the side effect being that it requires more juice
to achieve its higher true all-core boost clock
as for that soldered heat spreader it doesn't seem to be making much of a
difference but there are a couple of extra degrees of headroom i guess so if
you're a real masochist you can slap a fat cooler on this thing and remove the
turbo limits just make sure please that you have active vrm cooling for your
motherboard just like for the 7980xc
bottom line the numbers that you read on the box for the core i9 9980xe should be taken with
a dose of salt large enough to prune a whale let's start with the 9. this is
not a 9th gen processor in so much as it doesn't use Intel's 9th generation core
micro architecture nor is it even the ninth family of hedt processors it is
6th gen with some extra seasoning namely salt
as for these clock speeds well they're fine as long as Intel is
assuming that their customers don't intend to use their 2 000 processor for
the kinds of professional workloads that might justify a 2 000 processor which is
obviously stupid and only going to get stupider as use of avx instructions
becomes more prevalent so in my opinion
these marketing numbers are misleading at best and making matters worse
much worse is that Intel is refusing to be transparent about them we asked
straight up to have a simple table provided to us so that we'd know what to
expect during our testing and they wouldn't tell us
what is the purpose of this song and dance we can measure these numbers
why not just save us the hassle and put it in the reviewer's guide
i get that giving us these numbers makes the product look worse
but like the product is what it is we
were going to figure that out now it's just worse and you've pissed off the
reviewers who are supposed to be either recommending or slamming your product
when the embargo lifts and you guys wonder why you have pr
problems over there anyway
9980xc then it's pretty cool
but i can't think of a use case that i would buy one for
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