PC World - USA 2020-07)

52 PCWorld JULY 2020

REVIEWS INTEL 10TH GEN

single-threaded performance, constrain the

load to a single CPU core. The results are so

close that no one would or should care. We

expected the Core i9-10900K to have a little

more of an edge, but maybe it’s the luck of

the draw.

Corona is an unbiased photo-realistic

3D renderer, which means it takes no

shortcuts in how it renders a scene. It loves

cores and threads, so the results here follow

the trend, but the Core i9 finishes just 7

percent shy of the Ryzen 9. In Cinebench

R20, the Ryzen 9 had a larger 15-percent

advantage.

The Chaos Group’s V-Ray Next is like

Cinema4D’s engine, and it’s a biased

renderer—it takes shortcuts to finish projects

so you can, you know, win an Academy

Award like the V-Ray has (go.pcworld.com/

vosc). It loves thread count, so guess what:

The Ryzen 9 comes out about 14 percent

faster than the Core i9.

Our last rendering test measures ray-

tracing performance using the latest version

of POV Ray. The Ryzen comes in almost 17

percent faster than the Core i9. That’s pretty

close to the thread-count advantage the

Ryzen 9 has, which equals 20 percent more.

Switching POV Ray to single-threaded

performance, the Ryzen 9 squeezes by the

Core i9, which surprised us—we thought the

Core i9 would take the lead.

The Corona renderer closes the gap between the

Ryzen 9 and Core i9 to about 7 percent.

Core i9-10980XE Caascade Lake-X

(18/36)

Ryzen 9 3950X Matisse

(16/32)

Ryzen 9 3900X Matisse

(12/24)

Core i9-10900K Comet Lake S

(10/20)

Core i9-9900KS Comet Lake R

(8/16)

Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake R

(8/16)

Corona Renderer

1.3 Rays per Second

9,381,540

5,069,160

6,655,840

8,592,240

4,962,880

6,175,360

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

V-Ray is a biased renderer like Cinema4D and

performance tracks closely with the Ryzen 9 about

14 percent faster than the newest Core i9.

Core i9-10980XE Caascade Lake-X

(18/36)

Ryzen 9 3950X Matisse

(16/32)

Ryzen 9 3900X Matisse

(12/24)

Core i9-10900K Comet Lake S

(10/20)

Core i9-9900KS Comet Lake R

(8/16)

Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake R

(8/16)

V-Ray Next 4.10.7

Render

28,225

14,717

19,978

26,351

14,767

17, 507

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE