Monday, June 18th 2018
![AMD](https://tpucdn.com/images/news/amd-v1723408558483.png)
Trade Your Intel Core i7-8086K for a Threadripper 1950X
AMD acknowledges Intel's contribution to the x86 architecture over the last 40 years. However, AMD is convinced that they are the leading company for future high-performance computing, and will "take it from here". That's why AMD will hold its own online sweepstakes to give the first 40 U.S.-based winners of the Intel sweepstakes the opportunity to swap their 6-core prize for a 16-core monster. To put things into perspective, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has 16 cores, 32 threads, 40 MB of cache, and 64 PCIe Gen3 lanes. Now that's something hard to pass up on! AMD's sweepstakes will go live on June 25 at 1:00:00 PM EDT. If you were one of the lucky Core i7-8086K winners and want to take up on AMD's offer, check this page for further details.Update: Intel's response didn't take long. The company posted the following message to their Intel Gaming Twitter account: "if you wanted an Intel Core i7-8086K processor too, you could have just asked us. :)"
Source:
AMD
67 Comments on Trade Your Intel Core i7-8086K for a Threadripper 1950X
If on the other hand your work does not benefit from 16cores (or an 18core from Intel ), then I'd select the processor with the highest responsiveness - lowest latency.
Coffee Lake or Ryzen 2.
Personally, I'd get the 8086K/8700K any day, because I want the best gaming performance. Threadripper 2 might change this equation, but at the moment, Intel is still king for games and that's all I care about for my home PC.
previouscurrent gen cards are still $1k+Even when I want to buy Intel, they find a way to destroy any proposition of me considering them again. There's just no point in buying their nuclear reactors anymore...
Who stands to make money out of a different socket, Intel or the motherboard vendors?
Think about it.
Are you intentionally lying, or did you literally just make up this "fact" in your head so you can rationalize blindly defending another anti-consumer decision by Intel?