Quote from: gruffi on April 14, 2020, 01:11:38
Quote from: Alex544 on April 13, 2020, 11:50:57
a quick search on geekbench results shows the i9-9900 scoring nearly 40,000 multicore and 6000+ single core
would the i9-10900F with 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads somehow score less than that, on average? I think not! Let me downclock my Ryzen 5 2600 to 2ghz, run Geekbench, and make a title called "Zen+ Ryzen 5 2600 gets clobbered by 6 year old i7-3770!!!"
Geekbench scores can vary a lot. Especially from OEM to OEM. Search for HP scores of the i9-9900. You will find something like ~5700 single core and a little more than 30k multi core. So, the results of the i9-10900F look legit.
And don't get confused. Nowadays Intel is heavily limited by their 14nm process and thermal throttling. Especially with lower TDPs. Under full load it doesn't matter that much if 8 cores run at 3.5 GHz or 10 cores run at 3 GHz. Scores will be quite similar. A 10-core design also means more uncore logic. Which could limit the power budget for all cores.
It's "legit" but it's very misleading to say Intel's upcoming desktop flagship (locked) CPU is being put to "shame" by AMD's mobile CPU when it's scoring less than even Intel's very own i9-9900 with 2 less cores.
And no, 2 extra cores won't drop the frequency by 500mhz lol. 4.6ghz all-core for the i9-10900 has been confirmed, which makes its all-core boost right in line with the i9-9900, despite having 2 more cores. Desktop CPUs aren't as thermally (and consequently power) limited as mobile CPUs. Unless you're using the crappy stock cooler, you can expect the i9-10900 to score higher than its predecessor.