Reviewers Liked
- Massive price reduction from 9000-series makes pricing more reasonable
- Frequency improvement versus last gen for lightly threaded tasks
- Memory support to 256GB with supporting motherboards
- Somewhat lower power than Core i9-9980XE
- Predictable performance
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Inferior performance to AMD's Threadripper 3000 HEDT processors and less-expensive AMD Ryzen competitor on many performance benchmarks
- The X299 platform is starting to show its age against AMD's better X570 and TRX40 options
- Still 14nm
- Power-hungry compared to 3950X