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Core i9 processors apparently coming very soon
- Thread starter DonMigs85
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jobrro
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They exist but even the Pentiums have 2 cores 4 threads these days. Not much in it between a Pentium and an i3 on Kaby.
DonMigs85
Member
There's still i3 chips but the G4560 seems to have stolen their thunder
Not really. HEDTs based on Skylake were coming this year regardless of AMD. Same goes for Skylake Xeons which HEDT CPUs are based on.
Meh, I bought he 1600x and that was a awesome upgrade. I bet that 6 core will cost a fortune (more than the 7700k)
They do, and they are pointless on desktop imo.
g4560 Pentium is the good one on the lower end.
People said this for years about 8-threaded CPUs, yet the real world gaming performance margins to 4C/4T models were minimal. It's only very recently we've started to see a shift, and even then, a fast 4C/4T CPU still does the job extremely well in most games.
Ryzen doesn't impress me, It's great AMD are back as competition is great but I've always gotten much more out of Intel processors.
Plus I would hope Intel would lower the prices a bit due to Ryzen.
Muskieratboi
Member
Okay, If Intel can bring out an Octocore at 4.5GHZ, I'll bite the bullet and get a new Mobo for this thing.
Bubba_Sparks
Member
So these are going to be really expensive like those X99 boards?
Fried Food
Banned
Base clocks below 4ghz? Is that supposed to be impressive in 2017?
Finaika
Member
The Scorpio is 2.3GHz.
Based on the SKU names it's reasonable to assume they'll slot in at the same prices as the equivalent Broadwell-E processors (except you get an extra 2 cores in each tier above 6 core) which would mean:
Core i9-7920X ~$1700
Core i9-7900X ~$1000
Core i9-7820X ~$600
Core i9-7800X ~$400
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Doubt it. The 12-core at least is going to have a premium price. Or 'Intel premium' which in this case close to a couple thousand dollars.
Randy Monk
Member
i9?
Phew, not even double the performance to upgrade my i5-2500k
Phew, not even double the performance to upgrade my i5-2500k
I'm still on a T8100 Core 2 Duo, and I'm not upgrading to this.
30yearsofhurt
Member
Need to see the price first. And I was all ready to splurge on a wc Ryzen build.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Got excited for a moment before I realized how much these would cost...
Vinsanity.
Member
It feels like we've been at 3.5-4.5 ghz processors for 10 years now...
Why would it become cheaper? lol.
PSlayer
Member
And we probably gonna continue on this range.The reason why intel migrated to multicore after pentium 4 was because there is a clock ceiling that they can't pass without heating too much. It's way more likely they will keep adding cores with lowers clocks and hope devs improve their pipelines for multicore than pushing a 5-6 ghz clock range.
Yes, but don't overclock
lol 7700k
Best of luck with that. Have you seen the TDPs for those processors?
These are 6,8,10,12 core machines.
Even at those clocks they'll be faster than a 4 core machine at +4Ghz.
(never mind the fact that they boost pretty well too)
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
Will they be really called Core i9 or just another core i7 with fancy names like X99 and high serial number?
Sir Abacus
Member
Hopefully Core i9. If we can tell apart the 99 series chipset CPUs from the 70 series with just the model number that would be great.
veloxStrix
Banned
Substantial if accurate.
Agent_Carnage
Member
Now I wonder how AMD will respond. They going to release their own Super high end chip?
ShadowKingpin
Member
About damn time. All it took was a good CPU from AMD and now Intel is innovating. Let's just hope the prices are reasonable, but I will wait and see. Regardless, it's a good time to be a PC builder when competition is great.
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Probably cheaper than my 6950x :|
Mr. Wonderful
Member
More interested in seeing 4 core, 8 thread CPUs hitting lower power packages in the mobile space, personally.
Yeah I'm planning on building a new PC either late this year or early next year and I'm very happy with AMD bringing some serious competition to the CPU market.
Am I missing something or is the 7740k not that compelling on paper?
It's TDP is quite a bit higher than the 7700k and there is not much benefit otherwise. Are these expected to be much faster aside from the clocks or is the 7740 really just a minor refresh of the 7700k while the other chips with more cores are the main focus here?
It's TDP is quite a bit higher than the 7700k and there is not much benefit otherwise. Are these expected to be much faster aside from the clocks or is the 7740 really just a minor refresh of the 7700k while the other chips with more cores are the main focus here?
it's a 7700k for the high end motherboards with a higher TDP cap
LelouchZero
Member
What's up with the L3 Cache on the 6+ core processors?
Six cores going back to CPUs such as the i7 3930k have had 12MB L3 Cache. 8.25MB L3 Cache for a Six core seems kinda low. Are they going to have some kind of L4 Cache?
Six cores going back to CPUs such as the i7 3930k have had 12MB L3 Cache. 8.25MB L3 Cache for a Six core seems kinda low. Are they going to have some kind of L4 Cache?
mugurumakensei
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And we will likely to continue to do so unless there's a breakthrough in cooling.
Thats not an HEDT part btw
LGA2066 according to the article linked by OP