Intel spoke about its processors at Gamescom 2019, hosting an event in which it confesses that AMD, its main rival, "has done a great job of bridging the gap, but we still have the most performance CPUs."
If that sounds a bit defensive, we agree. We were at the event in Cologne, Germany, and we had a feeling that Intel wanted to remind everyone that while AMD has received a lot of positive news recently, thanks to its new Ryzen 3000 processor series, gaming, Intel always has the best processors.
Intel's Troy Severson said at the event that "when we introduced the i9 9900K..., it was called the world's fastest gaming processor." And I can honestly say that nothing has changed. It is still the fastest gaming processor in the world. "
Holding an event to basically say "nothing's changed" and "we're always the best" seemed a bit strange, and we (and many others) feel that Intel has been a bit shaken by AMD's recent success. At one point, it was even explained that he was sending anthropologists to live with players to study their habits, which isn't like a job we'd want to do.
i9 9900K vs Ryzen 9 3900X
Severson compared the Core i9 9900K to the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, insisting on the "real test" and showing how gaming stacks up against similarly priced processors, with the i9 9900K leading the way, though it has fewer hearts than the 3900X ( eight hearts against 12).
However, as PCGamesN's Dave James pointed out, the fact that AMD has a processor with more cores and similar performance to the Intel chip for the same price is one of the reasons why AMD is making headlines.
During the event, Intel showed us slides comparing the gaming performance of the Ryzen 7 3700U to its 25th Gen Intel Core Ice Lake processor. Both chips are low-power (XNUMXW) processors designed for use in laptops, and the slides showed that the Intel chip had a slight edge in most games, but not all.
Intel also noted that its latest-generation entry-level Intel Core i5-8300H processor provided gaming performance equal to or better than the new AMD Ryzen 7 3750H.
The event also allowed Intel to introduce its Intel Performance Maximizer tool, which will automatically overclock unlocked XNUMXth Gen Intel Core processors for easy performance.
So while Intel acknowledges that AMD is doing well, it also wants to emphasize how it remains the king of gaming performance. Is this a sign that AMD's success is putting pressure on Intel? We hope so, because Intel is at its best when challenged.
As Severson said: "Don't get me wrong, AMD has come a long way in catching up, but the 9900K is still the best processor for gaming."