Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
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Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
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Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#2What I really wonder is when this chip would have been released if AMD didn't come out with Ryzen line up in 2017.
Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#3I'm all for double the memory bandwidth (and more importantly double the memory channels) as long as it's not too expensive. But I'm holding off on buying a new desktop till the AMD Threadripper hits in a few weeks.
I suspect that benchmarks do a really poor job of measuring worst case performance... which is what users notice. Things like UI lag and audio skipping. I suspect double the memory bandwidth (assuming a nice fast M.2 SSD) is the limiting factor for heavy workloads made up of independent tasks.
Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#4What I really wonder is when this chip would have been released if AMD didn't come out with Ryzen line up in 2017.
It's amazing what a little healthy competition can do!
Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#5Another issue beyond the fact that the X299 boards are problematic in terms of how many, and/or what slots you can and can't use seems to be excessive heat and stability in some of the reviews I've seen.
I'm still running a i7-4790K at home, and though I'd like something with more cores... nothing is compelling enough to bring me to switch given the costs involved. If I were building new, would most likely go with an AMD solution.
Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#6What I really wonder is when this chip would have been released if AMD didn't come out with Ryzen line up in 2017.
I'll answer your subtle comment quite explicitly: never.
Intel clearly rushed this out to prevent AMD from having the perception of leading the space, at least in terms of the largest core count. The article even references this.
I just hope that it stays competitive, as this is clearly a win for consumers.
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#7Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#8Another issue beyond the fact that the X299 boards are problematic in terms of how many, and/or what slots you can and can't use seems to be excessive heat and stability in some of the reviews I've seen. I'm still running a i7-4790K at home, and though I'd like something with more cores... nothing is compelling enough to bring me to switch given the costs involved. If I were building new, would most likely go with an…
Indeed, especially with Intel still trying to upsell users to the highest level X chips to get more PCI-e channels. Fortunately AMD has more than intel available from their cheapest chip to their most expensive.
Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#9Out of the loop when it comes to the latest processor technology. How does this chip maintain the same TDP as a 6850K but with 4 more core? Same size (lithography), roughly the same freq, memory size/types.
Re: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
#10Out of the loop when it comes to the latest processor technology. How does this chip maintain the same TDP as a 6850K but with 4 more core? Same size (lithography), roughly the same freq, memory size/types.
No integrated GPU.