Intel Core i9-10980XE: What Reddit Really Thinks

If Intel high performance CPU is beaten by mainstream cpu then it's hard to be impressed with such chip.

Those are some surprisingly poor numbers from the Intel chip. It's supposed to be 3.8ghz allcore against the 3900x at 4.1/4.2ish, but it has 50% more cores, as well as quad-channel. Should be quite a bit further ahead. Given the 24 core Threadripper will probably be priced only slightly more expensive, this isn't even remotely competitive.

They spend a lot of time talking about AMD's alternatives, talking up the 3950X, and also the new Threadrippers. They don't seem to be very impressed with the new Intel chip.

People always forget that Skylake-X has lower IPC than regular consumer Skylake, along with memory latency roughly between Zen2 and Skylake. Clock for clock, it's about equal to Zen+ but with slightly better memory latency. Not surprised that it doesn't compete with Zen 2 anywhere near as well as Skylake does.

It trades blows with the 3900x, while it costs double, and uses twice the power.

Intel says it's a HEDT/Workstation CPU, not mainstream. For AMD, HEDT CPUs are Threadrippers. Also we compared Threadrippers to i9s when Threadrippers were cheaper and no such questions were asked.

How the tables have turned. AMD in the 8150 era had its top HEDT chip struggling vs the second tier intel mainstream offering, and got destroyed by the HEDT ones. Now this top tier HEDT intel chip is facing strong competition from the soon to be second tier mainstream AMD chip and will get cooked by the HEDT ones.

18c vs 12c? That thing is like barely 20% faster in some benchmark — what an embarrassment of a CPU. Aside from price drop and maybe 100mhz improvement in silicon quality wise, everything else not improved. Sell it for $600 maybe people will reconsider.

They're not even THAT expensive considering the massive price cut, yet they're still not competitive. What an interesting year for computing.

Intel 10th gen in a nutshell: High price and not high performance.

Neither the 10980XE nor Xeon W would be better than a 13900K for gaming.

Most of the time now I run it at 4.7GHz because I feel like for my chip 4.6 is the optimal area between power, heat and performance. For 4.7GHz I run 1.145v and the power consumption goes down 40-50 watts or so compared to 4.8GHz which is a 15% power decrease for only 2% less clock speed.

Not worth it. The 10980XE is still a capable chip and in 4K you will see 0 difference.

No doubt a powerful CPU and at a much better price point than previous generations. I am interested in seeing how well these overclock given how refined their 14nm process is.

Just tells you how competitive AMD products are. Intel cuts prices in half, with a tiny improvement and still isn't competitive. Intel's cozy safety bubble is gone.

You still have long way to go with that chip. Use every bit of it, It's comparable to 3950x r9, So it's plenty capable. As current technology still doesn't have any serious nor noticeable performance uplift. Overall today still a wonderful machine.

10980XE was replaced by Xeon-W.

It's the cheapest modern high PCI-E lane CPU.

The chip also has an extra 50% in terms of core count, is twice the price and is on a more expensive platform. And this performance is with quad-channel memory compared to dual-channel memory. The 10980Xe has its advantages in terms of PCIe lanes... but there are so many disadvantages it really doesn't look good.

5800x3d is faster by 1% not slower.

Only in a build that needs more pcie lanes than what you get a standard consumer intel/amd setup. Otherwise it's probably not worth it, as the 13900k and 7950x demolish it in performance.

X299 HEDT platform is old and dead. High-end consumer motherboards have kind of caught up to a point where the consumer line is no longer quite so stripped down in comparison to HEDT.

For video and rendering work and such this thing is absolutely great. AVX512 is really showing its speedup in this space with these chips. No idea why someone would buy these chips with gaming in mind.

Damn intels best HEDT cpu barely beats AMDs second best consumer cpu. Good thing they have an HEDT platform as well. I can't wait to see threadripper against these.

There's a lot of engineering software I have to use at work that only runs off of Intel CPUs. AMD can't penetrate companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop because the simulation software they run is optimized for Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs for computational fluid dynamics.

I still use it for anything I need including gaming and I have no issue with 4k/60hz so it still relevant. Will upgrade when it start to feels sluggish.

I love my 10980xe and I don't want to deal with a lot of trouble when changing the platform for 2-3 more fps gain.

10980XE didn't review well even when it was new. You are probably better off with 13900K unless you need a ridiculous number of PCIe lanes.

Good for home server type of things. Getting a bunch of PCIe slots on a board to use, extra ram channels, and most mobos can run 3x m.2 drives too.

The others are right - it's outperformed significantly by many other CPUs on the market at a lower cost. The main advantages was a mix of both the PCIE lanes and the sheer maturity of x299, especially for Linux.

They're still more expensive because Intel hasn't actually released a replacement for their HEDT platform so they maintain the prices due to the more professional feature set that isn't offered on other Intel consumer platforms. More PCIe lanes, quad channel memory, U.2 support, etc.

My 9940x and 7980xe beat my 7950x in the world of tanks encore RT benchmark at 3440x1440 on a shunt modded, water cooled, titan RTX. A 4090 is much faster and probably will see a bigger difference in favor of newer stuff. The 10900k/13900k are both huge upgrades over x299 but I don't think you will have problems at 3440x1440 100hz.

The 10980xe has much higher turbo boost clocks so it might actually do quite well in photoshop. If you're gaming at 1440p, the difference between gaming on HEDT and the 9900k is pretty small, and at 4k there is pretty much no difference.

10980XE is fun to OC but falling behind and breadripper is just overpriced.

Mine run super hot at 4.7Ghz at 1.165v, it hits 90C during CineBench R23. I use two 60mm 360mm rads and I think the cooling capacity is enough.

At 4k I don't think it will be worth it unless all you play is league or csgo or something. 10980xe is still a capable gaming cpu and at 4k you'll be gpu bottlenecked in most games even with a 3090ti.

Just get a 3950X mate. No one in their sane mind buys Intel anymore.

XE is basically a refresh, you can get an idea of performance looking at the current parts. It is better in many professional applications, but you do actually need to save that many hours of paid time for it to actually make sense, which means lots of heavy renders.

If scaling continues linearly, the 3950x should be roughly the same productivity performance as the 10980xe. So basically unless you are doing AVX workloads, there is no point to Intel HEDT.

I use it for a bit of everything: video transcoding, programming including machine learning, gaming, surfing reddit, discord, streaming, VR. Before I got my RTX 3090 I did machine learning on the CPU itself using its immense core count.

Never, since the Ryzen 9 3950X splattered its brains all over the walls three and a half years ago. There are millions of better options now, my favourite being the i5-13600K, a $300 CPU that beats this thing in multicore.