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

[DonFerrari]

ArchangelMadzz said:

JRPGfan said:

Yes but in the real world, everyone follows the speed limits.
So this is them showing a car that can run abit faster than another car, in a area without a speed limit (a race track or in the dessert or such).

End of the day, you and I, both use cars on roads that follow the speed limits.
So what is the point?

Which is what my point is.
No one buys a 2080ti or better GPU to run games at 720p.
So these tests that show which cpu is better (at 720p) dont serve any purpose.

Basically I think its mainly done to show Intel off, in a better light than their CPUs actually deserve.
Because in the real world, no one buys a 2080ti and games at 720p.
(its a marketing ploy, so you can say "best for gameing", and manipulate the degree to which it actually performs better at)

I don't mind them doing tests at 720/1080p as long as they show 1440p and 4k results and they did.

Using better cooling is the way they really skewed the numbers but the Intel chip is faster in games with all being equal, just not at the same margin shown in the videos. But playing these games at 1440p gives the same performance whilst one chip is cheaper, comes with a cooler bundled runs on much lower power and thermals, is more powerful overall and supports faster PCIe tech. 

It's obvious what chip people should buy but as said it's disappointing that they would heavily favour one brand in such a way.

Honest review would be:

We had to pay a lot more for the chip, put an expensive cooler to get a marginal improvement that isn't necessary to play any game at ultra setting 1440p or 4k.