Monday, May 29th 2017
The Slumbering Giant Wakes: Intel to Introduce 18-core X-Series Processors?
Videocardz is advancing an exclusive in that Intel seems to be about to introduce even more cores in a single package than previously thought. Intel's X299 platform, which we've just started officially started seeing some motherboards for (just scroll down on our news feed), looks to be the awakening of a slumbering giant. But you don't have to believe me on this: before we ever knew of AMD's Ryzen line of processors (much less about their Threadripper line), leaks on Intel's Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors only showed core counts up to 10-cores - in line with previous Intel HEDT platforms (see below image.) Cue more recent leaks, and it would seem that Intel is increasing the core-counts on its upcoming platform on a daily basis - especially if the most recent leak referencing 14, 16 and 18-core parts pans out. (I am reminded of a "moar cores" meme that used to float around the web. Maybe one of you in the comments can find it for me?)
A new, leaked slide on Intel's X-series processors shows 18, 16, 14, and 12-core configurations as being available on the upcoming X299 platform, leveraging Intel's turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (which is apparently only available on Intel's Core i9-7820X, 7900X, 7920X (which we know to be a 12-core part), 7940X (probably the 14-core), 7960X (16-core) and the punchline 7980XE 18-core processor, which should see a price as eye-watering as that name tumbles around on the tip of the tongue. There is also mention of a "Rebalanced Intel Smart Cache hierarchy". But you don't want me to be rambling on about this. You want to comment about this story. Feel free to partake in a joyous conversation over these news (I'll also leave you with a bonus picture of some purported, upcoming Intel X-series packaging efforts. They're certainly colorful.)
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A new, leaked slide on Intel's X-series processors shows 18, 16, 14, and 12-core configurations as being available on the upcoming X299 platform, leveraging Intel's turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (which is apparently only available on Intel's Core i9-7820X, 7900X, 7920X (which we know to be a 12-core part), 7940X (probably the 14-core), 7960X (16-core) and the punchline 7980XE 18-core processor, which should see a price as eye-watering as that name tumbles around on the tip of the tongue. There is also mention of a "Rebalanced Intel Smart Cache hierarchy". But you don't want me to be rambling on about this. You want to comment about this story. Feel free to partake in a joyous conversation over these news (I'll also leave you with a bonus picture of some purported, upcoming Intel X-series packaging efforts. They're certainly colorful.)
72 Comments on The Slumbering Giant Wakes: Intel to Introduce 18-core X-Series Processors?
These CPUs were planned >2 years ago. Months before launch Intel can still calibrate the clocks, and in the last weeks they can only adjust the price.Your arguments are faulty. Intel previously released 8 and 10 cores without any competition. You are also forgetting that Intel still have no competition in HEDT, Threadripper is not released yet.
If they mess this launch up by going TIM, even on some of the lowe(er) end chips, it'll just show their arrogance & how they treat their subjects.
It is the TIMING of the release which was prompted in the months before, since corporate espionage is such that each side knows most of what the other is doing. This would not have seen production until much later if not for AMD. It is a RESPONSE release. Nvidia did it last year too. 1060 was planned for release eventually, but not when it was. That part got quickly rushed to production because of the RX 480 release.
I'm not sure what your background is, and so won't assume. It may interest you to know that corporations research and develop technologies and products all the time that either don't see the light of day or are delayed for years till release.
Even if they have a completed design, it takes 5-6 months from starting the production of a batch until it sits in nice boxes, and that's assuming they have free production capacity. Skylake-X models was designed long before the rumors of Threadripper, anyone claiming otherwise is clueless.No, they can't rush the production of chips, that's impossible. GP106 and GP104 was taped out at the same time. GTX 1060 released inside the release window. Release windows does have some weeks of wiggle-room, but that's about it.
No hard feelings, you just wore my head out beating it against your wall.
:banghead:
The 1700x wins in 2/3 or 3/5 of the benchmarks, if you'd take lower power consumption as a win, vs the 6800k coming in at a lower price point.
Nvidia didn't rush GP106, it was launched with good availability, and outsold RX 480 by a factor of 4-5×. RX 480 hardly hit the top 20 sales at Amazon, etc.
People tend to forget TPU is one of the largest PC-enthusiast sites today. The reason why we feel surrounded by people overclocking 10-core Intel workstation CPUs is simple: most of them might be here. :)
In reality these CPUs will be put in workstations (far more likely business solutions than privately owned) and no one will care about their OC potential.
I've seen a very similiar effect on a major photography equipment site: dpreview.com. This site gives you an option to choose your gear from a list, so it can provide some statistics. Few years back (when mirrorless was slowly rising from shadows) dpreview statistics were showing some mirrorless models being as popular as mainstream DSLRs, while in reality DSLRs were outselling them by 2 orders of magnitude. And of course an active dpreview poster is more likely to own a $2000 pro camera than a $400 model. :)
In fact I wish TPU would rebuild the "system specs" idea to something more controllable. Sure, it's not easy to list everything available (although pcpartpicker is doing pretty well), but at least the CPU, Mobo and GPU boxes could be list-based.
I'm done in here. I come to TPU for fun, not get into arguments with people who get offended if you look crosswise at their favorite brand.
Skylake-x looks meh.
Haswell-E introduced 8 cores to HEDT, Broadwell-E introduced 10 cores, Haswell-E also significantly lowered the price of 6-cores, all of this without any competition from AMD. AMD has not competed in the high-end since the days of Athlon64.
But you guys keep crediting AMD anyway…
More is happening these days and it's a good time to be a consumer.