revealed its 9th Gen Coffee Lake<\/a> refresh processors. The processors revealed include the Intel i9-9900K, i7-9700K, and i5-9600K. Intel went as far as calling its newest i9 processor the “best gaming processor ever”. While we agree that the statement might be true to some extent, however, we are extremely dubious as to the legitimacy of the benchmark scores that were cited in the press event.<\/p>\nIntel Commissioned Principled Technologies to Carry out Benchmarks for Intel-9900K<\/h3>\n
There is a technology assessment and marketing company called “Principled Technologies” which Intel has commissioned to carry out the benchmarking for their new i9-9900K processors. These are the same benchmarks that were demonstrated at the desktop press event yesterday. The benchmark\u00a0shows a total of 7 processors from Intel and AMD tested out on a plethora\u00a0of games, for now, however, we will only talk about the i9-9900K, i7-8700K and the AMD Ryzen 2700X. This is because Intel has claimed that their new i9-9900K is 50 percent faster than the AMD Ryzen 2700X which keep in mind is almost half the price of the expected price of i9-9900K.<\/p>\n
Setup Used for the benchmarks<\/h4>\n
The rig used for benchmark consists of a GTX 1080TI graphics card, 16 GB DDR4 memory, Samsung 970 Pro SSD and Windows 10. Our problem with Intel’s test scores arose when we looked into a video by a Youtube tech channel called “hardware Unboxed”. Hardware unboxed demonstrated how the Ryzen 2700X was deliberately downplayed in the benchmarks to make the “50 percent faster” claim more credible for i9-9900K. In the hardware unboxed video, the Ryzen 2700X performed significantly better than what the Intel benchmarks showed. Let’s look at the three games out of the many that Intel tested out on their new processor and the AMD Ryzen 2700X. We are looking at these three games because these are the ones Hardware Unboxed tested so the rest of the benchmark scores are irrelevant in this comparison. Case in point, if Intel is being honest about their new processor then it should be considerably better in all the games that they benchmarked including the three we will be\u00a0looking at.<\/p>\n
Benchmark Scores Compared And Found Inaccurate<\/h3>\n
The games we will be looking at are Ashes of the Singularity, FarCry 5 and Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Below are Intel’s benchmark scores for the three games. As mentioned above, Hardware Unboxed has used the same specs and game settings as were used by Principled Technologies in their tests.<\/p>\n
Ashes of Singularity\u00a0Benchmark by Intel<\/h4>\n