i9-9900K vs i9-10980XE White System Head to Head

Gaming

Our final benchmark graph, and penultimate result page, shows what we’ve been saying throughout. Yes, in particular tests aimed at using the particular specialities of the beefier CPU it does what you’d expect such an expensive arrangement to do, but in the real world there is much less to choose between them and sometimes those extra cores can be a hindrance rather than a boon. Even Total War, a game renowned for its reliance upon the CPU, is happier on the Z390 platform.