Recently, Intel was rumored to be releasing 10 and 12 core "Core i9" CPUs to compete with AMD's 10-16 core "Threadripper" CPUs. Now, Intel has confirmed these as well as 14, 16, and 18 core Skylake-X CPUs. Every CPU with 6 or more cores appears to support quad-channel DDR4:
Intel Core | Cores/Threads | Price | $/core |
---|---|---|---|
i9-7980XE | 18/36 | $1,999 | $111 |
i9-7960X | 16/32 | $1,699 | $106 |
i9-7940X | 14/28 | $1,399 | $100 |
i9-7920X | 12/24 | $1,199 | $100 |
i9-7900X | 10/20 | $999 | $100 |
i7-7820X | 8/16 | $599 | $75 |
i7-7800X | 6/12 | $389 | $65 |
i7-7740X | 4/8 | $339 | $85 |
i7-7640X | 4/4 | $242 | $61 (less threads) |
Last year at Computex, the flagship Broadwell-E enthusiast chip was launched: the 10-core i7-6950X at $1,723. Today at Computex, the 10-core i9-7900X costs $999, and the 16-core i9-7960X costs $1,699. Clearly, AMD's Ryzen CPUs have forced Intel to become competitive.
Although the pricing of AMD's 10-16 core Threadripper CPUs is not known yet, the 8-core Ryzen R7 launched at $500 (available now for about $460). The Intel i7-7820X has 8 cores for $599, and will likely have better single-threaded performance than the AMD equivalent. So while Intel's CPUs are still more expensive than AMD's, they may have similar price/performance.
For what it's worth, Intel also announced quad-core Kaby Lake-X processors.
Welcome to the post-quad-core era. Will you be getting any of these chips?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @04:47AM
Will you be getting any of these chips?
No.
I don't need much more than a Core 2 Duo provides. I say much more because I find the A9 in my iPhone SE handles most of my banking and financial transactions quite well.
The Core 2 Duo in my Thinkpad gets about 90% of my computing needs done, and I get a nice 4:3 IPS display to go with it without pulse width modulation.
My desktop needs are satisfied by a first generation (((CompuLab))) Mintbox Mini.