Specs on Core i9 7900X (Skylake-X) - It'll get a High Turbo Boost Clock

I thought the point passed 2015 was to make smaller cpus and use less watts,not the other way around smaller+spaceheater.

 

Why just two..?

Wow Its not very easy cool 140 W TDP by aircooler.
Oerclock headroom probably will be very small.

 

Are you joking or just stupid? This isn't your mobile phone or laptop CPU. There are different CPU specs for different applications. This one is for top of the line workstations and prosumers.

 

He's just trolling...


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Bring it on Intel !

And I hope the new AMD platform will force them to sell it a more reasonable price.
I already have two 4K capable cameras, will also get a drone this year which is also 4K, so more and more stuff to process and encode. "Old" 6800K with 6 cores is starting to buckle under effort...

 

10-cores. This isn't going to be cheap...

 

I've been waiting for a higher clocked Intel HEDT CPU, so that the gaming performance isn't much worse then on the consumer variants, hope at least some of these rumors turn out real. 10-core would be a fine upgrade from my 6-core for the work I do, plus getting a boost in gaming as a cherry on top.

 

For me two criteria are important, lets see actual performance and pricing. Imo 8/16 will be the sweet spot, but lets see!

 

8-core

I wonder if the 8-core version will be clocked a bit higher if so that may be interesting if pricing isn't stupid high again.

 

I'm still not soled on the additional expense of hyperthreading (made the error of purchasing an i7-2600K back in the day) except for synthetic tests, rendering and un/packing files, but that doesn't help me much when playin' my video games.

 

Does this Turbo Boost on 1 core or all cores full tilt bozo?

 

most likely this $1000 cpu... with the hi-end at $1500
but again it can be less than $1000 if amd top line give similar performance

the dream is this cpu is around $799

 

From the article:

Turbo boost 3.0 simple means that say two threads can run at a high frequency, others at a lower one.

This will be pure gold for plenty of gaming workloads.
OK screw that... 10-core is hardly a gaming CPU. Still plenty of workloads will benefit nicely from 3.0 boost

 

The whole X299 platform will be expensive. I dont see it being attractive to average gamer at all.

Its either Ryzen or Intel quad cores.

 

You got your crystal ball working?

I did the math back when the R7's came out. the price difference between a 6800k/x99 and the 1700x/x370 system (the x99 had 32GB of ram and the x370 only had 16GB BTW) was like $60.

This idea that Ryzen is hundreds of dollars cheaper than intel is false especially since you are basically required to buy more expensive RAM with Ryzen. Add that to the fact that so far x370 motherboards are a tad more expensive than similar z270 boards.

Don't get me wrong I'm not throwing shade at Ryzen just stating fact.

 

Only the 1700x is sometimes as fast as the equivalent Intel ten core. Unless you want to conveniently forget anything that has to do with productivity, and only focus on gaming. In that case, it's either Intel Quads or Ryzen again, as Undying said.

 

Hopefully we're close to a transition to quad+ core supported games now.

 

For $2000 each.
And buy a good AC unit wile at it, with 175W TDP you'll need it.

Intel fanboys lost the argument that AMD built house warmers.
It's what Intel have for competing with Ryzen: poop.

Intel have been marketing their CPU's as more efficient every year, to compensate the lack of improvement on performance.

8c costs $1000 so...$300 more? lol.

You can dream about prices on your utopia.

HT and SMT only helps in multi tasking. The extra threads are not as strong as a core. My i5 2500k still has solid gaming performance for me.

So you compared Intel 6C to AMD 8C, well done well done. :bang:

Compare again R5 1600 with the 6800k.

 

Or wait for Z370 to buy a ''8700K'' 6c/12t CPU at the price of a 7700K. The perfect gaming CPU.

 

You need to sub the 6900k into your quote.