Wednesday, November 27th 2019
Intel Readying X299 Microcode Update to Enhance "Cascade Lake-X" Overclocking
Intel is readying a microcode update specially for its X299 Express chipset, to enhance the overclocking capabilities of its 10th generation Core i9 XE "Cascade Lake-X" processors. News of the update was put out in an MSI press release that speaks of the company encapsulating the new microcode in BIOS updates for its entire socket LGA2066 motherboard lineup.
"To enhance the overclocking capability for the newly launched Intel Core X-series Processors (Intel Core i9-10980XE, 10940X, 10920X, 10900X), Intel will provide a new microcode update," the statement from MSI reads. Besides "overclocking capability," the new microcode also helps to "maximize the overall performance" of "Cascade Lake-X" processors," says MSI. The company does not describe what specifically these changes are. The microcode update will be released to end-users as BIOS updates by motherboard manufacturers, so be on the lookout for one, if you're using "Cascade Lake-X."
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MSI
"To enhance the overclocking capability for the newly launched Intel Core X-series Processors (Intel Core i9-10980XE, 10940X, 10920X, 10900X), Intel will provide a new microcode update," the statement from MSI reads. Besides "overclocking capability," the new microcode also helps to "maximize the overall performance" of "Cascade Lake-X" processors," says MSI. The company does not describe what specifically these changes are. The microcode update will be released to end-users as BIOS updates by motherboard manufacturers, so be on the lookout for one, if you're using "Cascade Lake-X."
34 Comments on Intel Readying X299 Microcode Update to Enhance "Cascade Lake-X" Overclocking
By now, there's just about 0 new information that could get me and many other users excited about what we can do with our X299 hardware.
There's nothing that we can do today with it we couldn't two years ago with 7980XE.
The only benefit i see with those kinds of "updates" is for media to pump more Intel stuff out in a desperate attempt to grab attention from AMD.
You lost, Intel. I'm really really sorry. Get Jim and the guys working and finish building your 7nm facilities in the locations where they work on it right now (USA,IRE,ISR).
Back to basics, back to what made you successful in the past.
Until then, please don't bother us like a salesman chasing us down the street, trying to convince us to buy your stuff over and over.
Signed, a day 0 X299 user who has genuinely grown tired of how you treat media and customers with product launches.
The $2000 ROG Dominus and EVGA SR-3 motherboards and $3000 Intel Xeon W-3175X 28Core CPU, wiped off the map of significance by the incredible AMD 3960X 24C at less than half the price, AMD showing off it's amazing gains in IPC. :clap:
Kinda feel bad for this enthusiast (last pic below) who's waiting at the edge of his seat over at the EVGA forums already purchased his Intel W-3175X still awaiting the EVGA SR-3 to launch.
If EVGA sells even (20) SR-3s I'd be surprised, when the Asus Zenith II Extreme and AMD TR3 3960X make so much more sense and costs $3000 less.
www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-Zenith-II-Extreme/
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Just wait until 2020 when AMD will most likely dominate all the single threaded benchmarks as well. :)
disclaimer: I own and enjoy both Intel and AMD performance parts, and am therefore excluded from any form of fanboyism. just kidding ... lol :laugh:
Go AMD!
24C vs 28C:
What I deem "inept" was bulldozer and piledriver compared to intel at the time. Woeful single core and multithreaded performance, and, iirc, higher power use. Calling these new Intel chips inept is offputting at best, a blatant lie at worst. Really, it's just as polarizing as fancucker's POV as well.
If its really not, you need to get your head & cognitive skills checked out. And fast! IPC wise, Zen is now ahead of Intel in most workloads, and if you still believe monolithic is going to be cost effective going beyond 10 or 7nm... man. I still really hope it was sarcasm.
The only place where these new chips makes sense is if you already have x299 & are moving to a higher core count say from 6-10 cores. AMD has them beat in perf/$ + perf/W + PCIe lanes aside from being more future proof & not a dead end platform!
Initial post edited for magnitude and degree (and structure and relation). :D
Different chiplets have different performance caps... gee. I thought all silicon was equal and lottery was never a thing! (sarcasm!)
They should've lowered the boost clocks. Intel still guarantees a more consistent boost clock across its products. Let's not even mention how crappy the 3900X chiplets are and the availibility. Why try to pick up 3950X from a 1000 dollar scalper when you can get this?
And the 3950X of course has a major node advantage...if CCL-X descended to Intel's 10nm process or TSMC 7 it would blow the ryzens out of the water
Cheers.
I think you will find the net conclusion wrt boost and turbo on both CPU and GPUs is that we've reached a point where this gets messy, VERY messy, because clocks can be altered more rapidly and dynamically than they ever could. In both camps, Intel and AMD, different tricks are employed to cap out performance. But they're both tricks. While AMD may not always get its specced boost, Intel can never sustain it. Teehee, yeah IF... more like WHEN. That's the million dollar question, isn't it. So far the best they could do is their eternal 4c8t CPU on 10nm, and then they axed it. 7nm? Do I hear crickets?
Most straight shrinks don't seem to go well on 7nm so far. Radeon VII was hot. Navi is hot. If you think the density can go up with a straight shrink of CPUs that already run straight into 100C today... good luck :p
And that is one of the reasons Zen is a much stronger arch going forward than any monolithic one. Scalability, distribution of heat, cost and yield; Zen wins them all by miles from Core.
That's your opinion, you have absolutely 0 facts to back this up!
Cascade Lake X is a good value only and only if you have the the specific need case such as:
1) Higher than X16 lane PCie
2) Certified Thunderbolt support
2) Quad channel memory
3) AVX-512 acceleration
3) Specific softwares that are just better on Intel
Othetwise AMD left Intel no breathing room. The TR3s are chart-toppers and specs-santa clause. But if you just need CORES and only CORES, 3950X got you covered.
Kinda like first and 2nd gen Ryzen vs i7 iibh. You want absolute best get TR3. You want value HEDT get CCL-X. You want absolute value HCC get Ryzen 3950x.