New test shows smaller performance differences between i9-9900K and 2700X CPUs

The company Principled Technologies has rerun its test of the Intel i9-9900K and the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, among others, after the previous test was heavily criticized for its testing method. The differences are generally smaller.

Principled Technologies recently released the updated results when running games. It used a modified test method compared to the previous tests. For example, it enabled Creator mode instead of Game mode. When using the latter mode, the Ryzen CPUs only have half their cores, which led to uneven test results. For example, the Core i9-9900K achieved a score more than 50 percent higher than the 2700X in a part of the game Total War: Warhammer II. In the new edition, this difference fell to just over 17 percent.

Also in many other games a sometimes significantly smaller difference can be seen compared to the initial tests with only the Game mode. In a response, Principled Technologies also comes to the conclusion that the Creator mode on the 2700X leads to the best performance in games. The company apologizes for omitting this mode in its initial benchmarks. According to TechPowerUp, the difference between the two processors in the new test averages 12 percent in favor of the Intel model.

However, the new test method would not have corrected all the shortcomings in the original tests, so the memory configuration remained the same. In addition, the 2700X seems to have been retested with the included Wraith cooler instead of a Noctua model, which was installed with the other CPUs. Intel has said in a response to Tom’s Hardware that it is “delighted” that new tests have been carried out.

Table sourced from Tom’s Hardware