PC World - USA 2020-07)

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Here’s another view of the power both
systems consumed during Cinebench R20. The
Intel system (red) hits about 290 watts of power
versus the 250 watts for the AMD system. When
you also consider that the Intel system takes
longer to finish the run, it’s really all in Ryzen 9’s
favor. Even though much has been made of the
power and heat, in our opinion it shouldn’t be
the deciding factor for most people.

BOTTOM LINE
If you were expecting Intel’s 10th-gen to
hammer Ryzen 3000 CPUs, you were wrong.
Intel’s creaky 14nm fabrication process can’t
fully stand up against AMD’s (and TSMC’s)
7nm, and Intel was never going to offer more
multi-core performance than AMD’s chips.

What Intel has done, however, is close the

gap. The company’s previous standard bearer,

Ryzen 9 runs faster and consumes less power than Core i9-10900K.

Here’s every 10-core CPU Intel has released since

2016.

2016 Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E

(10/20)

2017 Core i9-7900X Skylake-X

(10/20)

2018 Core i9-9900X Skylake-X

(10/20)

2019 Core i9-10900X Cascade Lake-X

(10/20)

2020 Core i9-10900K Cascade Lake S

(10/20)

Bucks Per Thread (MSRP)

Intel 10-core CPUs

$86

$24

$49

$49

$30

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE