Tuesday, May 30th 2017
Intel Formally Announces the Core i7 and Core i9 X Series Processors
Creating rich, immersive experiences and bringing them to life takes a lot of compute power. Creators, gamers and enthusiasts have an insatiable demand for more power, more performance and more capability that lets them focus on what they want to do, not on whether their computer is up to the task. Intel is committed to continue giving them that extreme platform. Introducing the new Intel Core X-series processor family: Intel's most scalable, accessible and powerful desktop platform ever. Ranging from 4 to 18 cores, it offers unprecedented scalability. With price points to match, there is an Intel Core X-series processor that is sure to meet the needs for the widest range of enthusiast customers ever.
We're also introducing the entirely new Intel Core i9 processor brand, representing the highest performance for advanced gaming, VR and content creation. At the top of the lineup is the new Intel Core i9 Extreme Edition processor - the first consumer desktop CPU with 18 cores and 36 threads of power. Select SKUs of the Intel Core X-series processor family brings extreme performance to enthusiasts with Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 creating new levels of single-threaded and dual-threaded performance.
The Intel Core X-series processor family also delivers the first teraflop desktop CPU from Intel. And install Intel Optane memory, a smart system accelerator to improve system responsiveness with large storage drives. Intel Core X-series processors use more cores and more threads to do more simultaneous workloads, like extreme mega-tasking. For our enthusiasts, we have new overclocking features including AVX 512 ratio offset, memory controller trim voltage control, and PEG/DMI overclocking to get more performance than ever before.
Extreme Performance for Single-Thread and Multithread Computing:
Scalability with 10, 8, 6, and 4 cores (18, 16, 14, and 12 cores coming soon!)
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We're also introducing the entirely new Intel Core i9 processor brand, representing the highest performance for advanced gaming, VR and content creation. At the top of the lineup is the new Intel Core i9 Extreme Edition processor - the first consumer desktop CPU with 18 cores and 36 threads of power. Select SKUs of the Intel Core X-series processor family brings extreme performance to enthusiasts with Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 creating new levels of single-threaded and dual-threaded performance.
Extreme Performance for Single-Thread and Multithread Computing:
- Up to 10 percent faster multithread performance over previous generation
- Up to 15 percent faster single-thread performance over previous generation
- Massive 36-thread performance and quad-channel memory for content creation and extreme mega-tasking
- Up to 44 lanes of PCIe 3.0 directly connected to the CPU, to expand your system with fast SSDs, multiple discrete graphics cards and ultrafast Thunderbolt 3 technology
- New! Intel Core i9 Extreme Edition processor featuring 18 cores and 36 threads
- New! Intel's most scalable high-end desktop platform ever with 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, and 4-core options
- New! Intel X299 chipset with improved I/O capabilities
- New! LGA 2066 socket for Intel Core X-series processor family
- New! Additional system performance and amazing responsiveness with Intel Optane memory support
- Improved Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (select SKUs) for single- and multithreaded performance
- Up to 44 lanes of PCIe 3.0 directly connected to the CPU
- Up to 4 channel DDR4-2666 memory support, support for the Intel Extreme Memory Profile (Intel XMP) specification, revision 2.0 for DDR4
- Fully unlocked for performance tuning
- Rebalanced smart cache hierarchy
- Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
Scalability with 10, 8, 6, and 4 cores (18, 16, 14, and 12 cores coming soon!)
55 Comments on Intel Formally Announces the Core i7 and Core i9 X Series Processors
E.g. TIMs based on graphene have pretty impressive conductivity properties compared to traditional materials, but retain all the advantages.
I know we already got used to how CPUs are made, but think about it for a moment... Soldering the IHS and chip is a pretty weird idea in general. We should be able to do better in 2017.
Sure, Ryzen pricing was excellent compared to Broadwell-E, but a lot has changed since then. You simply bought your Ryzen to early. :p
Honestly, I think the Skylake-X pricing is excellent. It's high enough not to harm the consumer segment, but should be OK for current Intel owners (people that accepted LGA2011 pricing).
And as usual with Intel, it's a proper blitzkrieg. I'm not surprised motherboard manufacturers didn't have time to make AM4 stuff - it seems they've been working with X299 at least since Ryzen launched.
ASRock launched mITX boards for X299 and X370 basically on the same day - this is just sad.
And the X299 is possibly the most impressive mobo I've ever seen. :eek:Nope. MSRP $599 for 7820X according to wccftech
At least they've been useful this time. 7820X for 600 bucks, w00t! :DOh, I don't doubt that they've shaken things up. BARELY, but they have.
Honestly, given what a disaster Ryzen has been in the gaming sector, I think that it's already a miracle that Intel decided to step up.No, thanks to YOU for sacrificing yourself for the noble cause of me getting a REAL 8-core CPU for only 100 extra bucks :D
And for completely ignoring how CPU benchmarks works.
Also, any toxicity is all around really. It's the way of the modern world.
You have a pass. For now.I think it even beats online gaming. At least ugly things are said in gaming cos of the heat of competition, whereas AMD fanboys says so to defend their shitty products, and even being lied about them (the famous "THE 1800X IS GONNA BEAT THE 6900K IN GAMING PERFORMANCE!").
A: That table is 1000 unit tray pricing (retail pricing usually jack up another 10%), and
B: Ryzen has a 1700 8 core that's $300 cheaper?
What I'm most annoyed at though is I could have justified the 8 core if its all core OC is high, but Intel gimped the PCI-e lanes on it for some strange reason.
Also, odd how those higher core count CPU's are nowhere to be seen (as the dies are certainly already available) - I think the reality is those parts would in current guise be sub 3.0Ghz parts of which lets me honest, none of us in the HEDT market would be that interested in.
There could be other differences as well.
This is also in-line with AMD offering. Ryzen 7 (high-end consumer) offers just 24 lanes.
Both i9 and R9 will offer more (both in "enthusiast" / workstation segment).
EDIT: And I can't say I remember anyone here dedending AMD for their hype. If anything people are super wary because of their past overhype. And this argument will bot likely fly with you but the 1800x got withing 90% of 6900k performance at 50% of the price. I do not understand how people do not call that a very solid win.
You must be kidding me...
How much do you have to pay AMD to get >40 PCIe lanes at this point?
Its typical amd, ahead of its time without real payoffs now.
16 for an X platform ??????????:kookoo::kookoo::kookoo:
As @9700 Pro said, these 4-core CPUs are just adapted from current Kaby Lake lineup. Most likely the 7740X (or maybe the 7820X) will now be the flagship gaming CPU, like 7700K used to be just a week ago. Here by "flagship" I mean the one that gets most focus in marketing etc, not the most powerful.
Intel is clearly shifting their top products from LGA1151 to LGA2066. The latter is no longer "HEDT". Now it's also a high-end gaming platform.
2 possible scenarios here:
1) platforms will overlap in performance (which is fine, earlier the gap was huge)
2) consumer platform (LGA1151 successor) will be targeted at the office/multimedia/low-end gaming: possibly even without -K CPUs. In theory this could also make a smaller socket possible - a proper game changer for AIO and SFF.
Either way, IMO it's a great move for users - especially those that want to upgrade in the future.
Sorry, but this is not a great move at all. might be for Intel, but definitely not End Users.