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So the Intel's new Cascade Lake-X CPU lineup has finally been released to the market, offering new CPU models in 10, 12, 14 and 18 core categories and trying to fight off AMD with significantly lower price tags of 40 to 50%, making this probably one of the biggest price drops in the history of computers.
The new CPUs feature some small tweaks compared to the previous models, such as improved supported memory frequency on the paper, and capacity has been doubled to 256gb, also the amount of PCI-E lanes has gone up, but overall the changes are very minimal.
When testing the actual CPU, the 10980XE 18-Core model in this case, we can quickly see that the performance is pretty much identical with the previous models in the same core category. There is absolutely no difference in the actual IPC performance of the CPU. The Cascade Lake-X can definitely overclock higher than the previous models atleast on water, as I managed to reach 5.1GHz in the end with my particular CPU using a custom watercooling loop, and both Geekbench3 and Cinebench R15 went through like a charm on the EVGA X299 Dark.
The stated increase on supported DDR4 frequency doesn't show any real gain on the actual IMC when memory is being overclocked. The CPU is no different from the other Skylake-X CPUs that I had, and far behind the original 7920X, which did around 4133MHz using 12-11-11 timings with CPU just on water. Overall, the EVGA X299 Dark can handle CPU like a charm, and there doesn't seem to be any reason to upgrade the motherboard for non-existing differences like these.
The video ended up being really long, but I put timestamps on different parts of the video, so you can skip the parts you aren't so interested in.
10980XE overview and main features: 0:00
System setup: 7:43
BIOS Overview and overclock settings: 10:21
Overclocking the CPU Core and Mesh in Windows: 23:21
Prime95 and VRM test 42:40
Testing the daily stability of a memory overclock: 48:29
Conclusion and all the results: 51:49
Hardware used:
Intel Core i9 10980XE 18-Core Cascade Lake-X CPU
EVGA X299 Dark motherboard
G.Skill TridentZ 2x8GB 3600 CL16 & 4133 CL19 memory kits
SuperFlower LeadeX 8Pack 2000W Platinum power supply
Custom watercooling loop
You can find lots of submission made with this CPU on HWBOT.org
