COMET LAKE hath cometh, and with it Intel has brought a bevy of new features into the headlines of its latest processors. That means a new socket, a new chipset, more cores (more heat), and of course, more performance.
But is it quite enough to compete with the juggernaut that AMD has become? We already know that 3rd-gen Ryzen represents incredible multi-threaded power at a comfortable price. But the one area those zenified processors don’t quite match up is typically in the gaming department. On the whole AMD’s IPC (instructions per clock cycle), although much improved on Ryzen’s debut, still aren’t up to Intel’s level.