Chipzilla has an answer to the Ryzen 9
German retailer Lirpa Technologies has leaked the specifications and probable performance of Intel’s upcoming Comet Lake desktop CPUs and it appears that the headline chip is a match for AMD’s Ryzen 9.
According to Hexus the Core i9-10999X housing 16 cores and 32 threads running at a guaranteed all-core 5.0GHz. The core count doubles from this generation, intimating excellent performance that ought to give AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen chips a bloody nose. Although it will probably be much more expensive that the AMD rivals.
Lirpa has internally tested pre-production silicon on AMD’s favourite benchmark, Cinebench R20.
Just pay attention to the date.
