Intel’s Next Flagship is Too Power Hungry! Unidentified GPU Beats 2080 Ti and more.

Not only that but when it comes to the actual show floor, motherboard vendors apparently had LGA1200 boards available but intel asked those companies not to showcase them. This information comes from the German website Computerbase.de. According to their report, several motherboard manufacturers reported that the next-gen flagship CPU, the 10900k, could pull as much as 300W at max loads. We already know that it has a 250W TDP at Power Limit 2 and with the usual motherboard multi-core enhancements that increase or remove the PL2 time limit, it’s not super surprising. Btw I know, its a 250W TDP and not power draw, but TDP and power consumption are usually very very close to each other, just ask steve from GN. While it is no excuse, its worth mentioning that the 10 core comet lake CPU will bring every single core to 4.9Ghz. Sure the IPC is not that great and the power is bad but hey, you take your win where you can intel. This absence at CES will definitely put a wrench on the rumors that those CPU’s were supposed to come out next month.

At this point, it really is all about pricing, if intel can manage to tuck its tail between its legs and admit that they need to be more value-oriented, then they might have a chance. I’d put the 10900k at a max of 450$. Any higher and people will go for a 3900x. And at that price, it would probably kick the 3800x’s ass so there would be value there. Not a big upgrade path, but it could be value. What do you guys think?

Moving on to some AMD news, an unidentified GPU has been spotted beating a 2080TI. You heard that right! A Reddit user by the name of Munch Charles, posted a screenshot of the leaderboard in OpenVR, as you can see, at the same resolution, with the same headset, this unidentified GPU beats the top-performing 2080ti by a whopping 17%. Of course, the biggest question is, well, what is this GPU? First, we have to take a look at the CPU, apparently, this OPN code corresponds to a variant of the Ryzen 4800H likely an engineering sample. If this is in a pre-production laptop it kind of eliminates the possibility of an older dual GPU configuration. So it’s likely a GPU in an external enclosure. Now if this is the Nvidia Killer that’s been rumored left and right, its a pretty healthy performance boost. But the thing is, it could also be an external Nvidia GPU. I don't exactly know how OpenVR’s leaderboard works, but sometimes when there's an APU and a GPU in the same system, a benchmark will recognize the APU as the main graphics card while using the GPU’s performance. It could also just be a completely busted benchmark.

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