Intel Core i9-10900 Comet Lake-S CPU Engineering Sample Benchmarks Leak
The latest sighting of a Comet Lake-S processor comes from XFastest, which has posted a video which is said to be of a Core i9-10900 ES. For those that need a refresher, the "ES" designation in Intel parlance refers to this being an engineering sample.
In the video from the publication, we see the Core i9-10900 ES get a workout in Cinebench R15, Cinebench R20 and CPU-Z. In Cinebench R15, the single- and multi-threaded benchmark scores came in at 182 and 1670 points respectively. In Cinebench R20, the chip scored 441 points and 3,714 points respectively (single-core, multi-core).
If those numbers seem a bit on the low side, you have to realize that this is an engineering sample, and the clock speeds are well below what we'll see in production silicon. In this case, the Core i9-10900 ES was running at a base clock of 2.5GHz with a turbo clock of 3.2GHz. On the other hand, the production Core i9-10900K is said to have base and turbo clocks of 2.8GHz and 5GHz respectively.
The Core i9-10900 reportedly has a TDP of 65 watts and is a 10-core/12-thread design. It will be joined by an even hotter (literally) Core i9-10900K with base/turbo clocks of 3.7GHz/5.1GHz and a TDP of 125 watts.
It will be interesting to see how these new Comet Lake-S desktop parts fare against AMD's existing family of 7nm Ryzen 3000 processors. Those Zen 2 processors are available in up to 16-core/32-thread configurations (as opposed to topping out at 10-core/20-thread for Comet Lake-S) and are aggressively priced. According to the leaked price list for upcoming Comet Lake-S SKUs -- if accurate -- Intel is going to have a hard time countering AMD in the performance-per-dollar metric.
