Looking at those reviews, the prominent sites did the worst work
You have to watch youtube videos to get more info
I was interested in the new mem controller- that is partially answered with synthetic measurements- i wonder if this new mem controller is a production test of alder lake/later chips with ddr5, where we expect effective speeds up to 8GHz and and IMC probably can't run at that speed
It would be nice to see some exotic mem speed like Ddr4-5000+ at 1/2 mode, not only in gaming but with adobe software or calculations
I can't find any ring speed tuning
My experience with 9900K (2 weeks when a friend was on vacation) is that mem tuning and uncore clock has order of magnitude more impact than clocks, everyone is hunting 5,1 to 5,3 GHz but the gaming min fps limit is not there, it is latency
overall the gaming testing looks on the portals like average gameplay instead of CPU tests- at least Toms did some more demanding test which you see by lower mins within the same settings (like 1080p high..)
gaming CPU test should be composed by 90% of CPU intensive scenes, not running on the grass field or rotating camera inside a city
so mem latency can be 40ns which is like 10% behind the best skylake systems, cache is bigger, clock is the same, IPC is higher- even with those flawed gaming testing scenes, which test more thoughput than randomness I expected more
so about gaming it is a big grain of salt
app/productivity - one should test a machine with its intented purpose- an 8C cpu clocked way above its efficiency point for productivity is like testing a bmw m5 with full loaded trunk and 4 persons pulling 1,5t going up the hill
I mean wtf? that is a side info and for enthusiast a test should be done with decreased clocks and proper voltages
for example I am running my 3900X limited to 65W when handbraking, total performance loss is totally unimportant
power wise- I think the icelake power wasn't only the problem with 10nm, this sunny cove design looks leaky like a broken water dam
I didn't see idle power and lower load power- it is important, the sites don't test workload test packages per day with different distributions of idle, light and full load
iGPU- again wtf? this gpu isn't there to win 3dmarks, but support this age monitors, run everything on every system (win, linux..) and run even the most recent encoded movies with low CPU usage and enable fast decoding even with lower quality when it is not that important
I cant find anything about this
very shallow work from the reviewers, in short run cinebench and be done with it
You have to watch youtube videos to get more info
I was interested in the new mem controller- that is partially answered with synthetic measurements- i wonder if this new mem controller is a production test of alder lake/later chips with ddr5, where we expect effective speeds up to 8GHz and and IMC probably can't run at that speed
It would be nice to see some exotic mem speed like Ddr4-5000+ at 1/2 mode, not only in gaming but with adobe software or calculations
I can't find any ring speed tuning
My experience with 9900K (2 weeks when a friend was on vacation) is that mem tuning and uncore clock has order of magnitude more impact than clocks, everyone is hunting 5,1 to 5,3 GHz but the gaming min fps limit is not there, it is latency
overall the gaming testing looks on the portals like average gameplay instead of CPU tests- at least Toms did some more demanding test which you see by lower mins within the same settings (like 1080p high..)
gaming CPU test should be composed by 90% of CPU intensive scenes, not running on the grass field or rotating camera inside a city
so mem latency can be 40ns which is like 10% behind the best skylake systems, cache is bigger, clock is the same, IPC is higher- even with those flawed gaming testing scenes, which test more thoughput than randomness I expected more
so about gaming it is a big grain of salt
app/productivity - one should test a machine with its intented purpose- an 8C cpu clocked way above its efficiency point for productivity is like testing a bmw m5 with full loaded trunk and 4 persons pulling 1,5t going up the hill
I mean wtf? that is a side info and for enthusiast a test should be done with decreased clocks and proper voltages
for example I am running my 3900X limited to 65W when handbraking, total performance loss is totally unimportant
power wise- I think the icelake power wasn't only the problem with 10nm, this sunny cove design looks leaky like a broken water dam
I didn't see idle power and lower load power- it is important, the sites don't test workload test packages per day with different distributions of idle, light and full load
iGPU- again wtf? this gpu isn't there to win 3dmarks, but support this age monitors, run everything on every system (win, linux..) and run even the most recent encoded movies with low CPU usage and enable fast decoding even with lower quality when it is not that important
I cant find anything about this
very shallow work from the reviewers, in short run cinebench and be done with it