Rendering and Geekbench
The 10th generation of Intel Core processors, called Comet Lake-S, is the latest iteration of Skylake and, unlike the mobile Ice Lake, is still 14 nm. However, this constant tuning of this manufacturing process has resulted in record frequencies that are specifically related to the most powerful processor currently in the LGA 1200 socket. Now the only question is whether this will be enough for the Ryzen 9 3900X.
Rendering
We will start with the popular, albeit older, Cinebench R15. You can deduce two things from the results. Higher 10900K clock speed makes a 9% lead over AMD which, thanks to 4 extra threads, provides up to 20% higher multi-core performance. Intel has tipped the single-core to its maximum to retain at least this historic advantage, despite AMD making big leaps in IPC.
The newer and more demanding version of Cinebench R20 already shows a much smaller difference in single core, and that is 2%. AMD’s lead in multi-core dropped slightly, to 20%. You can expect Intel’s lead to be smaller from latter tests.
In a practical POV-Ray render test you can see that the 3900X is 15% faster than the 10900K. In practice, this means saving 6 seconds in a 40–50 second test.
Blender makes a significant 11% difference in favor of the 3900X. Here, 17 seconds have been spared in a 2.5-minute render.
Geekbench
Geekbench 3 is also one of the older tests, but it is still good for comparison. Single-core is practically identical, those few points in favor of Intel can be described as a measurement error. On the contrary, multi-core is clearly in favor of AMD with a 22% lead.
You know from previous tests that Geekbench 4 doesn’t like AMD processors very much and Intel performs better in it. 9% lead of 10900K in single-core is therefore not a surprise, AMD wins by 12% in multi-core.
The latest Geekbench 5 has reduced Intel’s lead in SC to 7% and AMD is 14% better in MC.
Rendering tests are not surprising and easy to predict. The 3900X with 24 threads is still the king of multi-core performance and we are not even testing the highest 3950X. As for Intel, it has sharpened its single-core performance to have an edge at least on something. However, it will be interesting to see how this is reflected in power draw and temperatures.
- Contents
- 10th generation, 10 cores
- Rendering and Geekbench
- Gaming, graphics tests and PC/3DMark
- Encryption, encoding and memory tests
- Heating and power draw
- Rating