Thursday, October 24th 2019
Intel to Halve Prices of 7th and 9th Gen "Skylake-X" HEDT Processors
In a bid to clear out inventories of its 7th and 9th generation Core X HEDT processors based on the "Skylake-X" silicon, Intel is preparing to halve prices of leftover inventory in the retail channel. The move is triggered by the company's own recent launch of the 10th generation Core i9 "Cascade Lake-X" processors that are compatible with existing socket LGA2066 motherboards. With "Cascade Lake-X," Intel halved the Dollars-per-core metric across the board (i.e. doubled the performance-per-Dollar), resulting in its top 18-core i9-10980XE being priced under the $1000-mark, half of what the i9-9980XE once commanded.
With prices of Core X "Skylake-X" chips being halved, you can expect the market to be flooded with 7th and 9th generation chips that are priced marginally lesser than their 10th gen "Cascade Lake-X" siblings. The single-thread performance (IPC) is identical between the three generations. All that's changed with "Cascade Lake-X" is the introduction of the DLBoost instruction-set that speeds up AI applications (irrelevant to gamers), and an improved Turbo Boost algorithm that spreads boost clocks across more cores, including Favored Cores capability that will come alive with Windows 10 2H19 update. If you've been on one of the cheaper 8-core or 10-core LGA2066 chips, your upgrade options just increased.
Source:
TweakTown
With prices of Core X "Skylake-X" chips being halved, you can expect the market to be flooded with 7th and 9th generation chips that are priced marginally lesser than their 10th gen "Cascade Lake-X" siblings. The single-thread performance (IPC) is identical between the three generations. All that's changed with "Cascade Lake-X" is the introduction of the DLBoost instruction-set that speeds up AI applications (irrelevant to gamers), and an improved Turbo Boost algorithm that spreads boost clocks across more cores, including Favored Cores capability that will come alive with Windows 10 2H19 update. If you've been on one of the cheaper 8-core or 10-core LGA2066 chips, your upgrade options just increased.
57 Comments on Intel to Halve Prices of 7th and 9th Gen "Skylake-X" HEDT Processors
What other choice do they have than to make it a bit cheaper...
Here's the decent part of the deal - if people are interested in wide IO of X299, the Core i7 9800X might get to around 350$
After all X299 is 3 generations of basically the same thing. It definitely is not nearly as expensive to make anymore.
I mean the past fifteen to twenty reports on Intel have been completely useless. So they slash prices on old inventory. Yay, who doesn't? The next day we hear they have great new innovations, another worthless refresh of whatever-Lake, even better IGPs, (lol) and of course our now mandatory bi-weekly new security leak.
Before even considering Intel's halved prices be sure to check out AMD performance per dollar and you also get PCIe 4.0
Sure PCIe 4.0 may not be a must tech today but you have to think a couple of years down the line when building a new system.
ALSO by NOT buying Intel you are sending a clear message to Intel that even half price of their originally astronomical prices is too expensive and they have to match or even go below AMD's performance per dollar to be relevant in the future.
all current x299 owners already got 14+ models so they gonna get no real improvement.
p.s: for many content creation apps [adobe f.e] 9900K gave hard life for lower frequency x299 parts and if the new commet lake will get 10C with same high clock then it will hard x299 sales even more, and for those that need more cores then AMD TR is the answer.
So in short- main rivels for those x299 parts are :9900KS, next 10C/20T commet lake, TR3000, Ryzen 3950X.
IMO another factor will be the new TR platform cost including MB+CPU, if the MB's will go for crazy prices then ppl may go 'cheap'(can't believe I am saying that on Intel lol) and buy the new x299.
no one here wants to buy a cpu as a ways to send any message to any corporation.they're looking for low prices.
btw 2066 offers 44 lanes.
Intel has nothing exciting or groundbreaking for the near feature, that's the only way they can stay on everyone's lips.
What are you smoking?Of course, its good to be reminded of this once in a while.
Maybe low enough to feature on tech yes city.
trouble free experience is on par with performance per dollar.
if perf per dollar is same as amd,I'd go intel any day.
also,more 3.0 lanes > less 4.0 lanes.better have two x16,one x8 and one x4 at 3.0 than one x16 and one x4 at 4.0