Friday, September 20th 2019
Intel Cascade Lake-X Core i9-10980XE Put Through Its Paces in GeekBench
Intel's upcoming Extreme Edition Core i9-10980XE from the Cascade Lake-X family. Cascade Lake-X (CSL-X) will be Intel's next take on the High End Desktop (HEDT) systems. The Core i9-10980XE is pegged as the flagship on that lineup, sporting an 18-core, 36-thread design, and are still based on Intel's 14 nm process node. These processors will be pin-compatible with Intel's LGA 2066 platform. Caches are expected to be set at 1.125 MB, 18 MB and 24.75 MB of L1, L2 and L3.
Base clocks set in the Geekbench 4 entry are set at 4.1 GHz, with a maximum boost of 4.7 GHz. That's a lot of frequency on a 14 nm CPU with 18 cores; if previous entries on the Intel HEDT family (such as the i9-9980XE) sported a 165 W TDP with clocks of 3.0 GHz and 4.4 GHz respectively, it seems highly unlikely that Intel will keep the same TDP for the i9-10980XE - and even if they do, power consumption will certainly be higher. Those reported clocks for the i9-10980XE may not be right, however - we don't know the conditions of the test run.
Sources:
GeekBench, via Momomo_us @ Twitter, Tom's Hardware
Base clocks set in the Geekbench 4 entry are set at 4.1 GHz, with a maximum boost of 4.7 GHz. That's a lot of frequency on a 14 nm CPU with 18 cores; if previous entries on the Intel HEDT family (such as the i9-9980XE) sported a 165 W TDP with clocks of 3.0 GHz and 4.4 GHz respectively, it seems highly unlikely that Intel will keep the same TDP for the i9-10980XE - and even if they do, power consumption will certainly be higher. Those reported clocks for the i9-10980XE may not be right, however - we don't know the conditions of the test run.
18 Comments on Intel Cascade Lake-X Core i9-10980XE Put Through Its Paces in GeekBench
handfingerful of scenarios, TR3 will murder these already obsolete parts beyond recognition.Of course if you're doing workstation i.e. serious work & don't mind OCing your work PC, then this is probably great news for those prefer Intel & perhaps better ST performance.
Additionally, any user submitted benchmark scores are going to be useless for comparison anyway, as there are so many variables impacting the score, ranging from BIOS (and BIOS settings), memory configuration, cooling, testing conditions, drivers, etc. etc.When they retain the chipset, it should be fully compatible.
But I guess as with both Intel and AMD, you need a BIOS update, and if you have a motherboard without some kind of "flashback" solution, then tough luck…
I think this is an easily solvable problem though, all Intel/AMD would have to do is to add a fallback firmware good enough to flash the BIOS, and then the motherboard makers to update their BIOSes to display this on screen and allow flashing.
I don't know how people could ignore facts any more.
I have Intel and I wait better Intel but they offer nothing. They have no answer 2 years on AMD Zen Core.
AMD sell now R9-3900X capable to serve as gaming PC and better then some Threadripper models.
How much will Intel charge performance of R9-3900X with PCI-E 3.0 and slower OS drives then on AMD platform.
Exactly in moment when Intel show up with 10th Gen Samsung, Toshiba, and others start race in performance of M.2 NVMe Gen 4.0.
Also, the difference between PCI-e 3 and 4 is minimal for day to day tasks.
Both are good platform, but many people don't have the time to deal with so many issues to tune to maybe get it working.