But buh single core performance......
Is actually lower!!!
there are 10700k Cinebench20 single thread scores floating around, the 10700k which boosts up to 5.1ghz only gets 490 score, a 9900KS gets 520 score with only 5ghz and a 9900k gets 500 score and a 3950x gets 530 score.
The new chips have slower single core due to hardware vulnerability fixes. It's the exact same thing that happened to Cascade Lake, the new vulnerability fixes have reduced single core performance by 5 to 10%.
So Intel fans who've constantly been rooting how about how good their single core performance is for games, they better hope more games use 8+ cores because those single core dependent games wil run slower on 10th gen CPUs than 9th gen CPUs.
I predicted this exact outcome by making several posts about it on these forums several months back - I said the 9900KS will continue to be Intels best gaming CPU and 10th gen would be slower and now look what we have, Voila!