However, whenPCGamesNpublished early Core i9-9900K results today we were a little surprised.
It’s not just some marketing bluster either… well, not entirely.
Do they simply not know better?
Over at the Principled Technologies website you could find thefull reportwhich states how they tested and the hardware used.
Ryzen doesn’t perform that well with fully populated memory DIMMs, two modules is optimal.
It’s misleading to conduct benchmarks without executing this crucial step.
In many cases this simulates the kind of performance we see when testing at 720p using ultra quality presets.
Of course, we also test at 1080p and 1440p as well to give readers the full picture.
One of the worst results picked by PCGamesN to show was from Ashes of the Singularity.
I also re-ran the tests with the XMP memory timings but at the official memory speeds for each CPU.
Here are the results for Ashes of the Singularity, let’s talk about them.
That however is nothing like the 29% performance advantage Intel enjoyed in thepaidtesting.
However the 8700K was slower again, 7% slower with the 2666 memory that Principled Technologies used.
Even with 3200 memory I couldn’t match their result.
Needless to say though, it won’t be 50% faster than the 2700X in games.
The results and testing methods are heavily biased, but they haven’t attempted to hide their dodgy methods.
