Intel Core i9 9900KS Linux Performance Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Core i9 9900KS Linux Performance Benchmarks

Today the Intel Core i9 9900KS is shipping at $513 USD for this specially-binned Coffeelake CPU that is capable of achieving a 5.0GHz all-core turbo frequency. The all-core 5.0GHz turbo is great, but it remains an eight-core / sixteen-thread 14nm processor going up against AMD's similarly priced Ryzen 9 3900X. Here are our initial benchmarks of the Core i9 9900KS compared to the Core i9 9900K and Ryzen 9 3900X.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=28438

[grigi]

The Idle power on the Ryzen board is so much higher than on Windows. I wonder if power management for the MB components is even enabled at all? Or is Zen2 power management just broken on Linux?

Also, hope your wife isn't too sick Michael.

[jrch2k8]

Well, that is what i call the perfect MEH!!! cpu launch and at that price is a really tough sell unless you are rich and don't care on wasting money

[rbmorse]

Wishing a complete and rapid recovery for the spousal unit.

[Snaipersky]

Hope Mrs Larabel feels better soon. Hey Michael, I don't suppose you could set both the 9900K and KS to a fixed clock speed, and run some tests, to compare the speed difference between unmitigated, software mitigation, and silicon mitigation? I imagine there's still some hit vs unmitigated.

[Michael]

Rise of the Tomb Raider less sensitive to CPU performance. A better choice would have been Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor which scales with CPU performance (at least with AMD GPUs and Mesa).

Unfortunately Shadow of Mordor doesn't have CLI benchmarking support hence why it's not used.

[hoohoo]

Michael - I hope your wife is OK.

[cbdougla]

An interesting test. I fully expected the 9900KS to be competitive performance wise but I am surprised the 9900KS system drew so much less power than the 3900X.

I know there are other components contributing to that (PCIe 4.0 chipset for one?) but it's still a bit of a surprise.

Along with the vulnerability mitigations, I would consider this a pretty good showing overall for Intel.

I think I'd still get the Ryzen myself but, as always, competition is good....

[wizard69]

Take care of the wife, we will understand!

as for the tests - most interesting results.

[mackal]

What's the likelihood of being able to compare the R0 stepping 9900k's context switching (I assume you mean P0 stepping is what your current 9900k is)