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intel has spent the last five years on
14 nanometer and the thermals have been
bad enough that d-litting has been
popular since the 7700k launched i don't
care how many pluses they add to the end
of this thing they simply cannot compete
with the laws of physics and certainly
not with amd's seven nanometer node and
now
they've gone and packed ten cores into
this thing
well gee i sure hope our fire insurance
is up to date
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i was so sure that intel's 10th
generation consumer chips were going to
literally immediately catch fire that i
told anthony you know what why don't we
put the thermals right at the beginning
of the script so that we can save
everyone from bothering to watch the
whole review just to find out the thing
is unusable
and as you guys can see
here i was
absolutely wrong
i'm sorry what
apparently the core i9 10 900k 10 core
cpu is shockingly well behaved from a
thermal perspective not only does it sit
comfortably at around 60 degrees or so
under sustained load at its default
settings when we remove the turbo boost
limits in the bios we do see 9th gen
like thermals except we're hovering at
around 4.8 gigahertz on all cores that
is well above the 3.7 gigahertz base
clock that
does not compute how in the heck did
they manage this
well as it turns out in spite of some of
my misgivings about the things their
marketing department says and does
intel's engineers are still pretty dang
good at their jobs and they've got a few
tricks up their sleeves
instead of just using soldered thermal
interface material on this new
generation of chips they have also
shrunk the thickness of the cpu dye
itself significantly reducing the amount
of material that standing between its
heat generating transistors and the heat
spreader on top
to compensate the heat spreader was made
thicker to provide more thermal mass as
well and you might not think this tiny
difference is a big deal but it clearly
is
now power consumption is of course still
very high as we might expect with stock
package power measuring at around
125 watts and our limits removed power
peaking at over 220 watts full turbo
suffice to say daily driver overclocking
this thing is going to be a challenge to
say the least and you're going to want
beefy cooling and a beefy motherboard
even for stock
turbo unleashed operation
speaking of which we've actually got a
new socket
hooray lga 1200 is here
although at least it's for a potentially
good reason this time around gigabytes
aorus team hinted that the new power
budget requirements of these 10th gen
chips would have made many last
generation boards out of spec anyway and
they confirmed that their motherboards
are capable of pcie gen 4 even if these
10th gen chips aren't so the bad news is
if you want to go 10th gen you need a
new motherboard the good news is that
there will be an upgrade path once 11th
gen comes around with pcie gen 4 rumored
to be a headline feature by the way if
you want to see us build one of these
rigs stay tuned for friday's live stream
you won't want to miss it get subscribed
there's more good news for the platform
too every core i3 through i9 is getting
hyper threading which i'm really jazzed
about this can now be toggled on and off
on a per core basis why would you want
to do that i hear you ask well the new
platform also reports the two best cores
in your system so if you wanted to
unchain them and let them run single
threaded as fast as possible while your
other hyper-threaded cores handle all
the background junk you can do that oh
by the way if you were thinking to
yourself hey hold on a second didn't
intel do that without the
hyper-threading controls on their
high-end desktop chips if you were give
yourself a cookie because yes they did
the consumer desktop is getting not one
but two new turboing mechanisms turbo
boost max 3.0 along with what they're
calling thermal velocity boost intel's
opportunistic boost algorithm that means
that in theory these cpus should be
turboing up quite aggressively under
bursty loads it's time to test out these
new cpus make sure you got an extra pair
of underwear on standby lttstore.com
because for today's shootout things are
getting real we've got the core i9 10
900k along with the core i5 cousin that
people are actually gonna buy and an
assortment of previous gin and team red
equivalents and
unsurprisingly at these clock speeds
intel has still got gaming on lockdown
for now the higher base clock on the six
core core i5 10600k pushes it out ahead
of the 10th gen core i9 in more lightly
threaded games like shadow the tomb
raider and red dead redemption 2 which
may make it a contender for mid-range
enthusiasts in its own right but it's
still worth noting that the core i9's
frame rates are far more consistent
and measurably higher than our other
platforms wherever a large thread count
comes into play where the cpu can
maintain higher individual core
frequencies over time of course as many
prospective amd buyers know gaming is
only part of the equation in
productivity the ryzen 5 3600x still
dunks on the core i5
but while the ryzen 9 3900x does do the
same to the core i9 it is not by the
margin that you might expect from amd's
20 increase in thread count with our
multi-threaded workloads ranging
anywhere between 5 and 15 difference
single threaded results confirm what we
already knew from gaming each thread is
faster on 10th gen than on ryzen thanks
to those insane clocks
and the longer the workload is the more
likely the core i9 is going to be forced
to drop out of max turbo which reopens
that performance gap in amd's favor so
then
we're back in this weird situation where
intel is measurably better for gaming
and amd is measurably better for
productivity but the gap between the two
is beginning to more closely resemble
the gap between zen plus and coffee lake
even if intel did have to resort to
running very high core clocks at very
high power draws like amd once did
and as much as i was concerned that the
increase in power draw would result in
consumer systems overheating left and
right it turns out that the thermals are
somehow even better controlled than last
generation pricing is of course geared
to come in at a slight premium over
amd's components which hints at the more
premium brand image that intel hopes to
maintain in comparison to team red you
guys might not think it works and you
might hate that it works but it does
work intel isn't playing around here and
while our 10th gen comet lake cpus feel
like a stopgap solution rather than
something transformative like amd's zen
2 was competition does seem to be alive
and well within the cpu market it gives
me goosebumps just thinking about it
thanks for watching guys if you're done
which you are maybe go check out our
recent review of amd's new 3rd gen ryzen
3's for more head to head red versus
blue goodness