Intel's massive 18-core Core i9 chip

[Andi64]

multithreaded difference

12.5% more cores,
15% higher performance per clock


We're looking at a ~30% difference there assuming identical clocks. I suspect HT is a bit weaker than AMD's SMT but being a monolithic chip with a ringbus architecture will likely give the i9 an edge that nullifies HT being slightly weaker so that's a wash.


For lightly threaded applications it's clocked around 10% higher and has around 15-25% more performance per clock so it's in the order of 30-40% faster for single threaded applications as well.

Yes, it's priced 2x as high for a reason.

15% higher IPC? Where do you get that number from? Ryzen is nearly on par per clock if you take gaming out of the equation. 5% IPC average would be my guess.