Matisse Refresh – light and shadow, sidegrade or real gain? versatility test from old against new and all against Intel

1 - Introduction, test system and goal 2 - Gaming Benchmarks 3 - Workstation Real-Time 3D 4 - CPU Composite und I/O 5 - Rendering / Raytracing 6 - Compute and HPC 7 - Power Consumption 8 - Summary and Conclusion

The term CPU-Composite is a bit ambiguous as a generic term, but I’ll just put everything here that includes different CPU tasks or …in a nutshell. Here too, there are sometimes very astonishing differences between the CPUs, which are reproducible, but hardly ever come out so clearly. The example with Solidworks 2019 is a very good proof that sometimes two more cores can decide about success and failure…

… but nevertheless in the next situation the beat can be the measure of all things again. You won’t find such beautiful differences in games!

In Creo, the number of kernels is only marginally important above a certain minimum. The Core i7-9700K shows this especially, because it washes up enormously. The rest is sorted according to their status.

The Ryzen 9 3950X, braked down to 65 watts, simply runs out of breath here, because power comes from fuel and it doesn’t always go ahead with light petrol. The Ryzen 9 3950X wins, ahead of the Core i9-10900K and the Ryzen 9 3900XT.

But the Intel Core i9-10900K then hits mercilessly in pure computing (not rendering!). With much tact and less feeling. The Ryzen Guild looks into the void, even if the distances between them are rather marginal.

With Inventor Pro the creation of models can be parallelized quite well. The Core i9-10900K can catch up with the old 12-core from AMD, because the clock rate is significantly higher, but has to take on the Ryzen 9 3900XT in a red sandwich. The great Ryzen 9 is the measure of all things. Well, that’s a feat, because this is already a slight meltdown.

The I/O composite of Creo 3 is also quite interesting, because it reproducibly shows the possible exceptions that could not have been easily identified on paper. The Core i9-10900K probably also wins through the platform, while the older Core i9s weaken a bit on the HT. Without it, things would go faster, as the i7-9700K proves once again. Funnily enough, the foam-braked Ryzen 9 3950X is also faster than the same CPU with wholefood on the plate, although the new Ryzen 9 3900XT at least doesn’t miss the boat.