Application and Synthetic Testing Cont.
V-Ray
I expected the 10980XE to score a better result than the other comparison systems in this test. I didn’t expect the difference to be so massive. Overclocking the 10980XE also yields huge gains in this test.
Cinebench R20 – Multithread
This is the test that Intel likes to point out favors AMD’s Ryzen 3000 lineup. We can see that’s the case to an extent as a 12c/24t Cascade Lake-X fails to match the Ryzen 9 3900X. However, our Core i9 10980XE achieves excellent results. Again, overclocking yields fruit in this test.
Cinebench R20 – Single Thread
No, I didn’t get the numbers backwards. For whatever reason overclocking the 10980XE didn’t help it here, nor did having all its cores enabled. The results between the 3900X and 9900K should seem farther apart than they are.
Adobe After Effects CC – Puget Systems Benchmark
After Effects favoring an HEDT part isn’t unusual. However, the difference isn’t as massive as one would think. Clocks and other factors come into play with your scoring. The 10980XE achieves a better score than the other systems here, but not by the margins its core and thread count might suggest. It’s also the slowest at stock speeds. Again, we saw a weird gain in speed by disabling some of the 10980XE’s cores.
Adobe Premiere CC – Puget Systems Benchmark
I’ve included this test by request. The test performs various video editing and encoding tasks. This is a case where the scoring isn’t all that surprising. the 10920X and 3900X are extremely close with the stock 10980XE pulling ahead and again, overclocking increases performance dramatically for a score of 893.3.
Blender
Again, we see that the Core i9 10980XE requires more cores in order to put down the 3900X. The score achieved by the 18c/36t 10980XE is impressive and is the lowest score I’ve seen in this test so far.
Gooseberry
This is a test where the 10980XE flexes its muscle a bit. While it does lose to the 3900X on a core for core basis, it obviously has more to leverage. While not conclusive, it may indicate what we could expect from a 3950X vs. the 10980XE, which would theoretically favor the latter.