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
It's quite useless to change your CPU unless you have special needs at this stage of performance.
Intel or AMD doesn't matter. AMD offers better for less money, so I chose them this time (last time it was Intel)
Cutting prices thinking that you have money to spare and you can afford to sell stuff potentially at a loss or with very low margins is a moronic strategy, only through a great deal of incompetence you reach such a situation.
Oh, and Intel is still venturing into all sorts of fantastical fields and markets burning cash like crazy. The stuff's still finite at the end of the day, billions can totally turn into millions in a split second if a lot of bad choices pile up.
Performance per $ matters more to regular consumers than business buyers. And yet again, for regular consumers, performance or a better buy, easily gives way to brand name recognition. Why do you think Intel blitzed the consumer market with endless advertising? When is the last time you see AMD ad on TV? Remember the familiar Intel logo and music? I am telling you, most PC home buyers know about this -
HEDT is already a niche market. For business buyers that require the power of HEDT, performance per dollar also ranks lower than brand name recognition, and even more so than stability, which is the reason why I chose Intel. Intel HEDT also comes with AVX-512, which many high performance applications are starting to leverage now.
Who cares most about performance per $ on HEDT? Tech people, which unfortunately, count only as a small percentage of the buyers.
Don't diminish the power of brand name, and that mountain of cash :roll:
Performance per $ is the most important thing for the companies than an individual like you. I totally disagree with you on basically every aspect.
That mountain of cash is there because of the performance per $. It can vanish as fast as it appeared.
is cost just x1.8 more then 9900K now lol.
Also the local stores confirm that they got new quotes from their supplier for massive price cuts on x299.