Cascade Lake-X Looking Good – Intel Core i9 10940X and 10920X Benchmarks Leaked

By Nathan Kirsch

Intel Cascade Lake-X processors are getting close to launching and high-end desktop users are more than ready to see how the Skylake-X successor is going to perform. Intel announced during IFA 2019 that Cascade Lake-X twice the performance per dollar of their Skylake-X predecessors.

While we have been patiently waiting Cascade Lake-X to come out in October 2019 we’ve noticed that someone already has more than one Cascade Lake-X CPU and has been busy benchmarking it.

Dell Precision Tower 5820

The mystery user has been using a Dell Precision 5820 High Performance Desktop Tower and uploaded Geekbench 4 results for the following Cascade Lake-X ‘Glacier Falls’ HEDT processors:

  • Intel Core i9-10940X – 14-core, 28-thread | 2.9 GHz Base, 4.2 GHz Boost
  • Intel Core i9-10920X – 12-core, 24-thread | 2.8 GHz Base, 3.8 GHz Boost
  • Intel Xeon W-2265 – 12-core, 24-thread | 3.5 GHz Base, 4.8 GHz Boost
  • Intel Xeon W-2255 – 10-core, 20-thread | 3.2 GHz Base, 4.1 GHz Boost

Geekbench 4 Benchmark Cascade Lake-X

The Intel Core i9 10940X 14-core, 28-thread CPU scored 5,677 points on the single-core test and 47,577 points on the multi-core test in Geekbench 4.3.0. Slightly behind that you have the Intel Core i9-10920X 12-core, 24-thread CPU scoring 5,339 points on the single-core test and 44,046 points on the multi-threaded test.

Looking at the 291 Geekbench results on Windows 10 in the database for the Intel Core i9-9980XE ‘Skylake-X’ 18-core, 36-thread processor shows scores ranging from 4213-7813 points on the single CPU test and 29,825-85,651 points on the multi-threaded test. Our testing has the 9980XE sitting around 5,500 points single-core and 44,000 points multi-core. Our testing also has the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970X sitting at around 4,700 single-core and 31,000 points multi-core. The new AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-thread processor scores around 5,700 single-core and 45,000 multi-core.

We expected Intel to bump up performance once again and it looks like they have as the 10940X and 10920X are able to best the scores of last generations flagship models. When you look at current generation processors it looks like AMD and Intel are going to be pretty close to one another in this benchmark!

Intel is expected to launch the 10960X 16-core, 32-thread and 10980XE 18-core, 36-thread CPUs during the Cascade Lake-X launch next month that will obviously best these cores. This will be an exciting launch and we’ll be able to see what Intel can do on it’s 14nm++ node for HEDT.

Also, please keep in mind these are leaked results from someone we don’t know. These results are not official and they have just been run on Geekbench 4.