AMD Ryzen 9 3950X bests Intel Core i9-10980XE by 24 percent in 3DMark Physics

Posted on Monday, October 21 2019 @ 11:48 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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Leaked benchmark scores of the upcoming 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 3950X flagship suggest it will beat Intel's soon-to-be-available 18-core Core i9-10980XE flagship by a wide margin. Results from the 3DMark Physics benchmark show the new AMD consuler flagship outperforming the 10980XE HEDT chip by a whopping 24 percent:
The tests are not direct system comparisons: the 3950X is paired with an RTX 2080 Ti and 16GB of dual-channel DDR4 memory at 3200MHz while the i9-10980XE relies on an RTX 2070 and 32GB of quad-channel memory at 2666MHz. However, when looking just at the CPU-focused Physics score of the Fire Strike test, the Ryzen 9 3950X outperforms the 10980XE by about 24 percent (32,082 vs. 25,838) despite its core count disadvantage.
Overall, we shouldn't read too much into this yet as this isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison: both systems used very different hardware. The samples used may have been pre-production chips and final drivers may result in higher performance. Furthermore, the AMD rig used a gaming setup whereas the Intel chip was housed in more of a workstation configuration.

The Ryzen 9 3950X is expected next month, as well as the Ryzen Threadripper 3000 platform.

Via: PC Perspective


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