Intel Launches New Core i9-9980XE 18-Core CPU With 4.5GHz Boost Clock (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: When Intel officially announced its 9th Generation Core processors, it used the opportunity to also unveil a refreshed line-up of 9th Gen-branded Core-X series processors. Unlike other 9th Gen Core i products, however, which leverage an updated Coffee Lake microarchitecture, new processors in Intel's Core-X series remain based on Skylake-X architecture but employ notable tweaks in manufacturing and packaging of the chips, specifically with a solder TIM (Thermal Interface Material) under their heat spreaders for better cooling and more overclocking headroom. The Core i9-9980XE is the new top-end CPU that supplants the Core i9-7980XE at the top of Intel's stack. The chip features 18 Skylake-X cores (36 threads) with a base clock of 3.0GHz that's 400MHz higher than the previous gen. The Core i9-9980XE has max Turbo Boost 2.0 and Turbo Boost Max 3.0 frequencies of 4.4GHz and 4.5GHz, which are 200MHz and 100MHz higher than Intel's previous gen Core i9-7980XE, respectively.

In the benchmarks, the new Core i9-9980XE is easily the fastest many-core desktop processor Intel has released to date, out-pacing all previous-gen Intel processors and AMD Threadripper X series processors in heavily threaded applications. However, the 18-core Core i9-9980XE typically trailed AMD's 24 and 32-core Threadripper WX series processors. Intel's Core i9-9980XE also offered relatively strong single-threaded performance, with an IPC advantage that's superior to any AMD Ryzen processor currently.

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Re:Pricing

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually you are both wrong. Intel's major fabs are in the US and AMD uses Global Foundries whose main CPU fabs are in Germany and the US. They both have plants elsewhere but they handle other products. Most other products including Apple's SoCs are made in Taiwan though under contract with TSMC who are aside from Global Foundries probably the largest gun for hire fab around. Samsung has their own fabs as well. There are a lot of fabs in the PRC and many chinese chips are made there but Intel and AMD chips aren't

Re:Fewer Cores and Hypertrheading is likely better

[Tough Love]

You are still confused. GPUs have high on-board memory bandwidth because they use it internally for texel and vertex fetching etc. Graphics features like filtering are highly memory intensive with typically multiple accesses per texel per raster op in on board memory. The bandwidth the CPU uses to upload primary data to the GPU is comparatively much less. Unless you made a major mistake, like not populating both controller channels, your streaming setup is unlikely to bottleneck on memory, including reading the framebuffer per frame.

You don't encode video on the GPU while rendering unless you are OK with dropping the frame rate. Another practical reason: your streaming software probably doesn't support it. This is typically done on CPU cores using the SIMD unit.

"You may have noticed that GPUs generally have much much wider memory"... I feel that you are just burping out random factoids you picked up somewhere in the hope that you can bluster your way through trying to make a point about not needing cores. Explain it to the streamers, who won't have a lot of patience for your theories because they know otherwise.