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Intel's Massive 18-core Core i9 Chip Starts a Bloody Battle For Enthusiast PCs (pcworld.com)

Posted by msmash on from the need-for-speed dept.

With Core i9, the Intel vs. AMD battle rages anew. Announced Tuesday at Computex in Taipei, Intel's answer to AMD's 16-core, 32-thread Threadripper is an 18-core, 36-thread monster microprocessor of its own, tailor-made for elite PC enthusiasts. From a report: The Core i9 Extreme Edition i9-7980XE, what Intel calls the first teraflop desktop PC processor ever, will be priced at (gulp!) $1,999 when it ships later this year. In a slightly lower tier will be the meat of the Core i9 family: Core i9 X-series chips in 16-core, 14-core, 12-core, and 10-core versions, with prices climbing from $999 to $1,699. All of these new Skylake-based parts will offer improvements over their older Broadwell-E counterparts: 15 percent faster in single-threaded apps and 10 percent faster in multithreaded tasks, Intel says. If these Core i9 X-series chips -- code-named "Basin Falls" -- are too rich for your blood, Intel also introduced three new Core i7 X-series chips, priced from $339 to $599, and a $242 quad-core Core i5. All of the new chips are due "in the coming weeks," Intel said. Most of the Core i9 chips will incorporate what Intel calls an updated Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, a feature where the chip identifies not just one, but two cores as the "best" cores, and makes them available to be dynamically overclocked to higher speeds when needed. Detailed story at AnandTech and HotHardware.

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  1. To bad the lowend cpu on that socket are cut down by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 4, Informative

    To bad the lowed cpu on that socket are cut down big time. Like to 2 channels and 16 PCI-E lanes with quad core cpu and HT on a board with quad channel ram and 44 pci-e. For a lower price you can get an high end cpu for the socket on broad build for 16 pci-e and dual channel ram.

    Mid range is 22 pci-e lanes.

    On amd the lower end socket has 20 pci-e + USB 3.1 on die.

    All of these processors are said to support 44 PCIe lanes for the mid range socket. The higher range socket is 128 pci-e lanes with 1 or 2 cpus.

  2. Re:Call me... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a list of quad-core-or-better desktop processors priced under USD$100. Notice how it's all AMD because Intel only has dual-core processors in that price range.

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  3. Re:Compensating? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Video editors with 4K, 8K and 16K video files to view in real time and render in the background at the same time.

  4. Re:How nice on them to remember by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Is $2,000 unreasonable for the Newest and Fastest CPU?

    Yes.

    Next question?