It’s a Cascade of 14nm CPUs: AnandTech’s Intel Core i9-10980XE Review
by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 25, 2019 9:00 AM ESTGaming: World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
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rolfaalto - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
For me the most important CPU features are AVX512, very high Ghz, and lots of fast memory. Plenty of PCI lanes are a significant plus, because they feed all the Volta GPUs ... which of course are PCIe-3. I don't care much about high core counts because that's the point of the GPUs. Mainly I need a few very fast cores to handle all the stuff that can't be massively parallelized. So, this chip checks all the boxes, especially at half the price! :-)blobcat - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Looking at the retailers today, the price landed at about $60 higher than prices listed here (and everywhere else leading up to release). 10900x is $649, 10920x is $749, etcIrata - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
That's because the price given was a price when buying 1,000 units. I think the article even stated that.Holliday75 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
It says the following at the bottom of page 1."*Intel quotes OEM/tray pricing. Retail pricing will sometimes be $20-$50 higher."
blobcat - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Yes I saw that, but thought it might be helpful to some to know actual retail pricing. Also worth noting that the markup landed at the high end of the range given and then some.Dorkaman - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
How about some overclocking prime95 non avx stable. I'd love to see it against an overclocked 9900KS in games and rendering tests.Dionysos1234 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Why no discussion of (lack of) ecc memory support?Jorgp2 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
That's probably baked into the chipset, and couldn't be added in if they wanted to.That's just Intel's idiotic product segmentation from the original launch biting them in the ass.
SBKch - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Could you add Ryzen 3950X to web benchmarks as I've noticed that it's missing?Sychonut - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Awesome! Looking forward to next generation on 14+++++++.