NVIDIA is not the only one with leaked benchmarks this week — it's Intel's turn!
Silicon Lottery down at the Overclock.net forums got their hands on the ten-core, twenty-thread, Intel Core i7-6950X. Because Silicon Lottery is all about buying CPUs, testing how they overclock, and reselling them, it looks like each of these results are overclocked. The base clock is listed as 3.0 GHz, but the tests were performed at 4.0 GHz or higher.
Image Credit: Silicon Lottery via Overclock.net
They only had access to a single CPU, but they were able to get a “24/7” stable overclock at 4.3 GHz, pushed to 4.5 GHz for a benchmark or two. This could vary from part to part, as this all depends on microscopic errors that were made during manufacturing, and bigger chips have more surface area to run into them. These tiny imprecisions can require excess voltage to hit higher frequencies, causing a performance variation between parts. Too much, and the manufacturer will laser-cut under-performing cores, if possible, and sell it as a lesser part. That said, Silicon Lottery said that performance ran into a wall at some point, which sounds like an architectural limitation.
Broadwell-E is expected to launch at Computex.
Impressive 🙂 will look
Impressive 🙂 will look forward to the 8 core variant to be benchmarked to see how it stacks against my 5960x and see how the 6 core cpu’s in the fanmily do as well. My situation has changed and i might sell my 5960x since i dont need that horsepower any longer and downsize to a 6 core instead and put any extra $$ i get into the bank toward a 1080ti.
So guess your hoping the new
So guess your hoping the new extreme isn’t $1000. I hope I can get 10 cores for $900 at microcenter. If the 8 core stays at $1000 price I will be pretty sad considering I have been sitting on an X99 mobo for like 7 months waiting for that 10 core at the $1000 price.
If you think we (Canadian’s)
If you think we (Canadian’s) will get em that cheap I’ll have what you’re smoking 🙂 I’m sure it’ll be closer to $1300-1599 cnd by time we get the chance to buy them my x79 4960x was $1199 at launch and I was lucky it shot up to $1300 a week later.
Rumors point toward the
Rumors point toward the deca-core part being priced upwards of $1500 USD.
Although it could be Intel and their superb marketing use the ol’ door-in-the-face tactic so they sell them for $999 and people buy them like hotcakes.
Definitely going to wait for Zen, I guess if Zen isn’t up to par I’ll end up getting the deca-core broadwell-e to upgrade my 3770k.
I wonder what Kabylake-E will
I wonder what Kabylake-E will look like?
My guess is it’ll be roughly
My guess is it’ll be roughly square or rectangular, with a whole bunch of little gold dots on the bottom and a lid on top. There might be some numbers and letters laser-etched onto the lid.