Comet Lake pulls out the stops. Trounces the mainstream competition, allegedly. German retailer Lirpa Technologies has accidentally let slip the specifications and probable performance of Intel's upcoming Comet Lake desktop CPUs.

The headline chip is the Core i9-10999X housing 16 cores and 32 threads running at a guaranteed all-core 5.0GHz. The core count doubles from this generation, intimating excellent performance that ought to give AMD's 3rd Gen Ryzen chips a bloody nose.