Digital Foundry is the Performance Review Top Tier But....

[ArchangelMadzz]

Their new reviews of the Intel 10th Gen are not good from a scientific perspective. 
When you're comparing the difference between 2 different variables you want to keep everything is equal as possible.

You wouldn't test the sound quality between Spotify and Youtube by using different headphones for each platform. So obviously with CPU reviews it's very important to compare using the same GPU, RAM amount and speed, etc etc.

I assume Digital Foundry did this, but as they explain in the review they used a 240mm Storm Castle AIO Water Cooler on the Intel platform. And they went with the stock cooler bundled with the AMD CPU.

I genuinely do not see the logic behind this, we know that Ryzen's power management clocks the CPU higher as the temps are lower. It's CPU reviewing 101 to use the same(roughly the same) cooler and not entirely different cooling mediums.

(Also I'm not sure why they're still testing Crysis 3, The Witcher 3 and older titles when people are buying these very expensive CPU's to play modern games).

I love these guys, but that's a serious miss-step. 

Last edited by ArchangelMadzz - on 25 May 2020