Those Intel i9-9900K vs Ryzen 2700X Benchmarks Look Much Worse Now
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:45 pm
Nice try Intel... you have to wonder, though, how they thought no one would notice.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevang ... worse-now/Following outstanding investigative journalism by the likes of Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed, the saga of Principled Technologies' flawed -- and now mostly corrected -- competitive testing of the Intel Core i9-9900K CPU has ended with a whimper. Why? I'll cut right to the chase. When the benchmarking house agreed to test the AMD Ryzen 2700X with all of its 8 cores and 16 threads actually enabled, Intel no longer holds a claim of being "up to 50% faster" than AMD's gaming flagship. That lead has been slashed to about 15% when averaged out across all games tested.
And the 9900K will still cost consumers 66% more than its Ryzen competitor. That's before you buy an adequate cooler for the processor, as the 9900K ships without one in the box.