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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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
Now it might be the case that it is a cut down 7700K, and if you followed a little more closely you would have seen I'd found out as much, but if so, it will be almost certainly not be quad-channel as you stated. So either way it plays out, there's a good bit of misinformation in the original. It's clear to me, anyway, that you still don't quite yet understand the different dies and creation of SKUs from them. Maybe a half-baked understanding is the bar you set for yourself to take an editorial bias, but I think it's a lot safer to simply not take a stance. To your credit, it looks like you've admitted as much and kudos for listening!