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

Gaming

Lastly our gaming benchmarks are the real world application of the results we’ve seen on the preceding two pages. Far Cry 5 is a good all-rounder; Metro Exodus stretches your systems capabilities; The Division 2 utilises lots of the latest technological advances whilst Total War : Three Kingdoms is as CPU intensive as almost any game around.

Intel have nearly always had the edge in gaming environments thanks to their higher clock speeds when compared to their AMD counterparts and the Core i9-10980XE is no exception to this rule. Between the Rampage VI Extreme, Rampage VI Encore and the Gigabyte Aorus Waterforce there is barely room to squeeze a Christmas card in.