Intel Core i9 10980XE and ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme Encore Review

Time Spy Extreme

Time Spy is another part of the 3D Mark suite but here in its Extreme guise it’s as taxing as you could wish for. We’re also including the CPU Score here as it’s a better representation of the motherboards abilities, particularly when overclocked.

Time Spy gives us probably the clearest indication yet of the benefits of having a beefy overclock on your CPU, with both the Waterforce and the ASUS Rampage Encore strolling off into the horizon with the extra clock speed. Whilst the 3960X scores highly in the CPU test, the red bar below which is the combined score shows that the X299 works better overall, despite the PCI Express 4.0 available to the AMD platform.