Intel Core i9-10850K $449 10-Core Alternative is now Official, priced 453 USD
After all the gossip and chatter, Intel decided to make the Core i9-10850K official, basically to stay price-performance competitive against AMD's offering.
Zooming in on the specs you can see 10 cores and 20 threads, a 3.6GHz base frequency and 5.2GHz boost frequency. Line that up against the i9-10900K and you'll see that proc has a base frequency of 3.7GHz and boost at 5.3GHz, so we're looking at an i9-10900K running 100MHz less. It remains to be a simple Geekbench leak, nothing else is known about the processor, it is not clear if it is a model that will be sold in the market, or that it'll find its way into pre-assembled systems. It is a K model though, multiplier unlocked.
Update: the processor has been spotted, costs 453 USD and will be used in pre-fabricated systems.
Update #2: Whoo there horsy, look at that. The processor has been spotted in retail with some SKU listings after all. it looks like the product will be available at some etailers.
Update #3: July 27th, 2020. Intel now has officially released the product and added it to its slide decks. It's the value proposition towards the 10900K at a more reasonable price, here's the product stack.
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You can find 3900x for 400$ so the pricing will be nice to see. 3900xt will probably fight the 10900k.
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Does this performance scale in games/workloads in general in comparison to AMD's current offerings?
Not just at 1080 either but higher resolutions mainly.
1440p is the new 1080p, so yes

I'm getting even better minfps on 3440x1440 in some games over my max oc 3900x using 2080ti on both pc's.
With new "3080ti" coming, 1440p is even more the new 1080p.
In cpubound scenarioes, 10900k is 20-25% faster (games) than 3900x. Both overclocked. Difference in Cinebench r20 is about 10-12%. 3900x having 20% more cores.
So for rendering only, the 3900x is the better choice.
Faster "singlecore" and lower latency looks to cost more than just more cores.
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$450 right? not $4549...
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If this is $4549, it better do 7GHz on all cores stock...

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Does this performance scale in games/workloads in general in comparison to AMD's current offerings?
Not just at 1080 either but higher resolutions mainly.