It comes out in 10 days, does it really matter?
> to a two year old one.
The 9980XE launched Q4 2018, did you mean 2 quarter old? This also seems to imply Intel has something else better is due for release in the next year, there is nothing on the roadmap.
> It's just comparing two random user submissions. Here's another i9-9980XE where Intel scored 7700 in single core.
Because that's an extreme OC bench at +800 MHz and this was a stock run. Check the .gb4
Yea it does, because no one in the public can reproduce the results to verify them.
A more comparable part would be the i9-9980HK.
not really, that's an eight core CPU (and also a mobile part). I'm very interested to see how the lower core count Ryzen 2s compare to their Intel counterparts in single-thread, but part of what's so impressive about the (early) 3900X/3950X results is that they offer this kind of performance with more cores and at a consumer-friendly price point.
you're right that Skylake is an old design at this point, but intel invites this kind of comparison when they can't manage to ship an HCC version of their latest tech. entirely fair, imo.
Unfortunately larger and slightly refined Skylakes is all that Intel ships these days on Desktop. If it’s unfair to compare Ryzen CPUs to that, then I’m afraid there is no fair comparison that can be made until Intel gets around making actually new CPUs.