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Article Tom's Hardware Core i9 9900KS Preview

This is an odd reply. The discussion taking place has been about GHZ (i.e., increasing frequency with process shrinks), not overall performance. Your post is a bit of a non-sequitur given that context.
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- Post #146
- Oct 24, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question CPU for Surface Laptop 3.

By all means, share your opinions. But, when you do so, it'd be nice if you provided some facts, details, and reasoning behind them, particularly when you're in the unique position of comparing both laptops. Are you planning on returning the AMD unit already?
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- Post #94
- Oct 24, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question CPU for Surface Laptop 3.

Sorry, your original post wasn't entirely clear to me. But thank you for doing this. It would be great if you could re-run the test once both laptops are at 100%. My suggestions/requests to start: * idle, screens on (same brightness) * idle, screens off * during a short, but heavy load (e.g...
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- Post #74
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question CPU for Surface Laptop 3.

I don't think he meant it like that. At any rate, see my post above, you have to make sure the batteries are fully charged before testing. Otherwise, you're just telling us what the chargers can do (which would explain why your numbers were exactly the same).
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- Post #72
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question CPU for Surface Laptop 3.

It doesn't really tell us anything if both batteries aren't at 100% prior to the test, right? I'm assuming you can't remove the battery to run a pure test, but I suppose I could be wrong. It sounds like we could just be getting numbers for the chargers as they charge the batteries. In fact, from...
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- Post #67
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

The notebookcheck prime tests show all cores at ~1900 mhz using 14.9W CPU package power. Don't know if that will translate to actual workloads, but at least it is a number for reference.
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- Post #3,204
- Aug 6, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

This whole chain started based on your initial post comparing the 1065G7 results to the i7-8559u and concluding: "I'd estimate CPU performance the same, GPU performance 5% better based on the notebookcheck benchmarks, at a 10% lower TDP. Disappointing. They appear to have made very little...
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- Post #3,202
- Aug 6, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

Calling it "similar" GPU performance is exceptionally misleading. In many titles the Ice Lake system performs much better than the 8559u. +30% in SOTR, +90% in Witcher 3, +11% at GPU limited settings in Rocket League, +16% in Bioshock Infinite at 1080p. The only title that is worse for the Ice...
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- Post #3,195
- Aug 5, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

Interesting, these are the first examples of apparently GPU limited scenarios where it appears the 25W is a better performer. Everything I've seen has suggested the additional power budget goes to the CPU, not the GPU (and I thought this was confirmed by Intel somewhere, but I can't find it...
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- Post #3,190
- Aug 5, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

As far as I know, we have no examples of Intel providing similar performance in 15W chips before. We can also look at the review for the NUC8i7BEH and see that the GT cores can use a lot more power when running games: 35W maximum for Witcher 3 compared to 15W maximum for the Ice Lake part, 20.6W...
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- Post #3,187
- Aug 5, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

I feel like I said the same thing? The extra power goes to the CPU, not the GPU. The GPUs for the 15W and 25W configurations are exactly the same and appear to have the same power limits. Yes, if you are no longer GPU constrained, then the extra CPU oomph is going to show in benchmarks. My point...
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- Post #3,185
- Aug 5, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

This is an odd take. In games, the 25 W and 15 W 11th Gen Iris Pro perform essentially the same. The extra power budget goes to the CPU, not the GPU. As a result, you could have just as easily compared the 15 W Ice Lake to the 28W i7-8559u and concluded that at almost half the power it produces...
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- Post #3,182
- Aug 5, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Packaging: EMIB, Infinity Fabric, CoWoS, Foveros

That's a pretty strong exaggeration. You could say 3DXpoint products aren't what was promised, but the technology itself appears to be exactly what was promised. And I expect that at some point you'll see products getting quite a bit closer to those theoretical performance numbers.
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- Post #25
- Jun 25, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Ryzen 5 2600 vs. Core i5-8400, 36 Game Benchmark Battle

Ha! Good catch. That's a toasty system. 1.185
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- Post #117
- May 22, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Ryzen 5 2600 vs. Core i5-8400, 36 Game Benchmark Battle

The cooler sucks, but the real problem is that most boards go overboard on the voltage. Especially if MCE enhancement is on. My 8700 is perfectly happy at 1.85 volts at 4.5 all core (yes, it does that). At default the board would have been throwing nearly twice the voltage at it.
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- Post #114
- May 22, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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