Thursday, September 19th 2019
Intel "Cascade Lake-X" HEDT CPU Lineup Starts at 10-core, Core i9-10900X Geekbenched
With its 10th generation Core X "Cascade Lake-X" HEDT processor series, Intel will not bother designing models with single-digit core-counts. The series is likely to start at 10 cores with the Core i9-10900X. This 10-core/20-thread processor features a quad-channel DDR4 memory interface, and comes with clock speeds of 3.70 GHz base, a 200 MHz speed-bump over the Core i9-9900X. The chip retains the mesh interconnect design and cache hierarchy of Intel's HEDT processors since "Skylake-X," with 1 MB of dedicated L2 cache per core, and 19.3 MB of shared L3 cache.
Geekbench tests run on the chip show it to perform roughly on par with the i9-9900X, with the 200 MHz speed-bump expected to marginally improve multi-threaded performance. Where the "Cascade Lake-X" silicon is expected to one-up "Skylake-X" is its support for DLBoost, an on-die fixed function hardware that multiplies matrices, improving AI DNN building and training; and pricing. Intel is expected to price its next-generation HEDT processors aggressively, to nearly double cores-per-Dollar.
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Geekbench tests run on the chip show it to perform roughly on par with the i9-9900X, with the 200 MHz speed-bump expected to marginally improve multi-threaded performance. Where the "Cascade Lake-X" silicon is expected to one-up "Skylake-X" is its support for DLBoost, an on-die fixed function hardware that multiplies matrices, improving AI DNN building and training; and pricing. Intel is expected to price its next-generation HEDT processors aggressively, to nearly double cores-per-Dollar.
67 Comments on Intel "Cascade Lake-X" HEDT CPU Lineup Starts at 10-core, Core i9-10900X Geekbenched
but then again I blieve it when I see it :)
With 16C32T offering for AM4 at 750$, and a possible one for TR4 at roughly 850$~, Intel is in trouble. Zen2 is not going to give Skylake-X slack like Zen1 did in many software applications.
I dont think intels 10000 series offer has Any thing better than ryzen 9 3950X, besides the 18 core maybe, but all depending on price. So far 3950X is still My choise of CPU.
Ten thousand nine hundred ex?
Tenty-nine hundred ex?
Or perhaps the i9 OneZeroNineZeroZero ex?
:kookoo:
1) An empty TR4 or AM4 socket.
2) A pile of molten slag where the LGA2066 socket used to be.
I built a test renderfarm using eight nodes of 3900X and I have another 56 3900X chips on back order since July 23rd and current ETA given how long I've been in the queue is October 4th.
Let's face it, Nehalem was a game-changer in its day but that day was 10 years ago; The upgrade to a mere 3600 will be mind-blowing, and if you're managing to cope on 4 threads, the difference between a 3600 and 3950X isn't going to be that huge anyway.
The AMD RyZen 9 3900X has 12 cores / 24 threads, 3.8GHz, base, 4.6GHz boost and L3 cache of 64MB (L1 64K). Add to that 7nm and support for PCIe 4.0.
Similarly the AMD 3950X presumably will have 16 core / 32 threads, 3.5GHz base, 4.7GHz boost and the same L3 cache of 64MB.
Personally I am waiting to see what the upcoming Threadripper release has to offer.
If Intel significantly cuts prices and increases the core / thread count while pushing the boost clock to nearly 5.0Ghz that would be something I would like to see. Doesn't mean I'll buy into it but I'll at least hear them out.
It kind of feels like Intel is beating their 14nm process like a rented mule at this point what else can they do!?!
You'd think now that they finally have competition they'd start innovating. But I guess they still think their 2015 technology is better than AMD's.
Skylake is Intel's GCN I guess.