Tuesday, April 25th 2017
Intel's Core i7-7740K Kaby Lake-X Benchmarks Surface
Two days, two leaks on an upcoming Intel platform (the accelerated release dates gods are working hard with the blue giant, it would seem.) Now, it's Intel's own i7-7740K, a Kaby Lake-X HEDT processor that packs 4 cores and 8 threads, which is interesting when one considers that AMD's latest mainstream processors, Ryzen, already pack double the cores and threads in a non-HEDT platform. Interesting things about the Kaby Lake-X processors is that they are rumored to carry 16x PCIe 3.0 lane from the CPU (which can be configured as a singularly populated 16x or as a triple-populated 1x @ 8x and 2x @ 4x PCIe ports. Since these parts are reported as being based of on consumer, LGA-1151 Kaby Lake processors, it would seem these eschew Intel's integrated graphics, thus saving die space. And these do seem to deliver a quad-channel memory controller as well, though we've seen with Ryzen R7 reviews how much of a difference that makes for some of the use cases.
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Leaks came from the SiSoft Sandra Benchmark, again, which shows the Intel Core i7-7740K running at 4.2GHz base and 4.5GHz Turbo clocks. The X-series family of processors is expected to have a wide range of various core-configurations from 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12-core processors, on the new X299 platform. At the same time, Intel will also have a Skylake-X CPU, expected to be for the top-end 12-core/24-thread line with 44 lanes of PCIe Gen 3.
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ETeknix
Leaks came from the SiSoft Sandra Benchmark, again, which shows the Intel Core i7-7740K running at 4.2GHz base and 4.5GHz Turbo clocks. The X-series family of processors is expected to have a wide range of various core-configurations from 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12-core processors, on the new X299 platform. At the same time, Intel will also have a Skylake-X CPU, expected to be for the top-end 12-core/24-thread line with 44 lanes of PCIe Gen 3.
51 Comments on Intel's Core i7-7740K Kaby Lake-X Benchmarks Surface
Ryzen just launched with 8cores...
I don't disagree with the article but if I want to read the editors opinion i'll read the editorials. This feels really unprofessional.
But this article is a great example of where this goes overboard. TPU used to be really good (and still is), but this is a low point.
The article is already slightly edited, it was even worse before
I lived in Stockholm for 10 years. Jonkoping also. And worked in Lulea (guess the company).
Reporting anything about the last generation of intel processors must be hard.
As not a lot has changed in the last generation or so.
But now AMD is back in the game what is wrong with ragging on intel.
4 core on there enthusiast platform really?
Hell PC's where more fun with the CPU wars RISC vs CISC and AMD vs INTEL.
Now days everything is bland why not spice things up a bit.
The commenters/users are the one that should be ragging, not the editor. That's why there are opinionated editorials.
Again, i'm not saying that there should not be some personality behind the text.
Theyve had a similar style before where the author's opinion was injected into news articles... it didnt work out. That writer got a ton of flack for various appropriate reasons and bailed or was let go...
I dont appreciate being led in a particular direction either. Saying nvidia is scared of vega hence the moving up of volta or whatever was really offputting.
4 cores arent measily. Its a sweetspot for price and performance. Regardless if you are spoiled by core count, 90% of users cant use more than 8 threads anyway, so what does it really matter?
Tough read with the parentheticals litering that first para (one also isnt closed)...sorry for the public mention... i digress.
Can we ask to mark these articles with yellow background.
Off topic: As you don't appear to have your own site, and I don't do utube comments, can I say I really enjoy your videos. Hair is not outrageous enough however.
Wouldn't that be something :)
From the article:
About the CPU's, yes, nothing to get excited about, but good info to remember anyway; Intel doesn't feel new AMD cpu's will have any impact on their business in the short term, hence they keep the launch strategy.