A wild 10900X benchmark appears on Geekbench

[Master Disaster]

It appears as though someone has benchmarked a 10900X CPU on Geekbench. Best guess based on core count is that this is a HEDT CPU based on Cascade Lake X though that's not entirely clear yet.

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Someone has seemingly benchmarked the Intel Core i9-10900X with the Geekbench 4 software. The unreleased processor sports the 10000-series branding, so it's most likely one of Intel's upcoming HEDT (high-end desktop) parts based on the Cascade Lake microarchitecture.

Based on the core count on the posting, we suspect the i9-10900X is the same Cascade Lake-X (CSL-X) chip that surfaced in SiSoftware's database back in April. The processor will most likely serve as the direct replacement for the existing i9-9900X.

 

 

The 10900X looks like it going to be a direct upgrade to the 9900X being almost identical just with faster clocks.

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Based on the reported specs, the i9-10900X isn't much different from the i9-9900X. It still has 10 cores, 20 

threads and the same amount of L1, L2 and L3 cache. SiSoftware detected the i9-10900X with a 4 GHz base clock and 4.6 GHz boost clock. Geekbench 4 posted a minimum frequency of 4.137 GHz and a maximum frequency of 4.680 GHz, so both reports are in the same ballpark.

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The i9-10900X seemingly delivers up to 5.71% higher performance than the i9-9900X in single-core workloads. When it comes to multi-core workloads, the i9-10900X performs up to 10.34% faster. The difference in performance seems feasible since Cascade Lake-X is somewhat a rewarmed Skylake-X Refresh part. Of course, we should wait until the final products are out before we pass judgement.

Intel claims Cascade Lake-X will bring double the performance per dollar. The 14nm multi-core chips are scheduled to arrive next month. Sadly, Intel hasn't specified a date yet.

 

https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-core-i9-10900x-cascade-lake-x-benchmarks,news-61696.html

 

Yawn, another rerelease from Intel. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this point.

[RejZoR]

Basically it gets those 10% from 2 extra cores (10 vs 8 on 9900K). Rather yawn release...

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

Basically it gets those 10% from 2 extra cores (10 vs 8 on 9900K). Rather yawn release...

So the 9900X did have 8 cores. I read the article and thought it was incorrect but decided I was more likely to be wrong than Tom's hardware.

[RejZoR]

17 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

So the 9900K did have 8 cores. I read the article and thought it was incorrect but decided I was more likely to be wrong than Tom's hardware.

9900K is 8 cores, 16 threads. 10900-whatever appears to be 10 cores, 20 threads.

[That Franc]

22 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

9900K

The article compares it against 9900X, not 9900K

[mr moose]

53 minutes ago, That Franc said:

The article compares it against 9900X, not 9900K

This,  the 9900X is a 10 core part as per the article and they also show a single core improvement of 5.something %

 

I wouldn't claim this as being anything to write home about, but it is a performance improvement from a refined product.

 

 

[Bananasplit_00]

Oh look, it's more Skylake

[GoldenLag]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Best guess based on core count is that this is a HEDT CPU based on Cascade Lake X though that's not entirely clear yet.

could be comet lake S as Tum Apisak reported a 10c/20t as CML-S. though it could be cascade lake x aswell. that was 16 days ago tho. 

[williamcll]

For reference 

[MeatFeastMan]

I can smell the lake of coffee from here.

 

3rd gen Threadriper is going to make this launch irrelevant. 2 years..all the fierce competition from AMD..and this is all they can put out. Surely this is pointless because it's going to get slammed by reviewers while Threadripper is going to get all the praise in the world.

 

Let's hope the price/performance they've been talking about is true, if it has better value than 3rd gen then maybe it can have a purpose.

 

I would take these scores with a bucket of salt though because geekbench likes cache I believe, something the 3900x has a ton of.

[mr moose]

12 minutes ago, williamcll said:

For reference 

Just out of curiosity (because TBH I couldn't give a rats about geekbench),  what freq is that 3900X running at and does the difference in geekbench versions make any difference?

[mr moose]

12 minutes ago, MeatFeastMan said:

I would take these scores with a bucket of salt though because geekbench likes cache I believe, something the 3900x has a ton of.

It's interesting for speculation but that's about all.  Normally I'd wait for real world independent verified testing before I start commenting on relevance etc,  But to be fair I have no plans to buy this processor anything like it in the next few years so my interest is just that, interest.

[xAcid9]

Geekbench? Bruh.. I need real world window media player test result, that's what really matters.

[RejZoR]

1 hour ago, xAcid9 said:

Geekbench? Bruh I need real world window media player test result, that's what really matters.

Forget about media players, Chrome is what people actually run!

[porina]

Still using X299, would this be a first for Intel? 3 "generations" on same chipset?

 

Not looked in detail as I don't care, I think Cascade Lake has further extensions to AVX-512. There was talk of machine learning stuff which I'm not interested in.

 

Timing is about right for next gen Intel HEDT to be released soon. On that note, I wouldn't expect TR3K any time soon.

 

2 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

could be comet lake S as Tum Apisak reported a 10c/20t as CML-S. though it could be cascade lake x aswell. that was 16 days ago tho. 

That's supposed to be a consumer level part. If the detected cache and chipset are correct, it would strongly lean towards HEDT.

 

I think we're also approaching the window for consumer refresh, not that I'd expect anything really different from Intel at this time.

 

 

[Animal901]

They tested it on a dell.......

[Fasauceome]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

The 10900X looks like it going to be a direct upgrade to the 9900X being almost identical just with faster clocks.

And if their current trend with HEDT is any indication, this won't even favor from the supposed 18% IPC uplift that consumer chips are getting, because it'll be kaby lake.

[porina]

Have an i9-10980XE while you're at it...

 

 

[mcbaes72]

Hmmm... 

 

5% Single-core and 10% multi-core improvements, that's it? 

 

Except for FPS, Intel behind AMD in other categories, more cores for less $$. Although I have two Intel builds, if I were to upgrade right now, AMD would be the better choice. 

[The Benjamins]

Asrocks added bios for "New Intel Core™ X-Series Processors" on x299 boards today

https://www.asrock.com/support/index.asp?cat=BIOS

[Arika]

I'm starting to get bored of cpu announcements and releases (and leaks for that matter) for both companies. Seems that there's something every few months. I've long since given up trying to keep up with any of this

[Kisai]

15 hours ago, Tedny said:

what's difference between x and k cpus for intel?

X used to be HEDT on socket 2011

K used to be "unlocked" on socket 1150/1151/1155, with the non-K usually being more feature complete, and the K having enterprise/vPro features nerfed.

 

Right now, until Intel actually posts the specs, it's probably not going to matter. 

 

There is a fundamental difference between Socket 2011-x and 115x chips in that the former has more PCIe lanes, memory bandwidth, memory, and so forth, but ends up slightly behind on expansion capability (Eg USB, Sata/NVMe) due to being based on a previous generation chipset.

 

With that said, I'll be nothing less than disappointed with Intel if it comes with the usual PCIe lane numbers.

[Deli]

HEDT with only 10 cores in 2019 will be a very hard sell.

[imreloadin]

15 hours ago, Tedny said:

what's difference between x and k cpus for intel?

At this point it's mainly the privilege of paying Intel 2-3 times more for the CPU...

[Drak3]

16 minutes ago, Kisai said:

X used to be HEDT on socket 2011

K used to be "unlocked" on socket 1150/1151/1155, with the non-K usually being more feature complete, and the K having enterprise/vPro features nerfed.

There's quite a bit wrong here.

On X99 and earlier, the X designation was the top unlocked HEDT SKU. The K designation was every other unlocked SKU on their desktop platforms.

K SKU CPUs also weren't stripped (or limiting) any features of their non-K SKU counterparts.