hello my name is lonus Sebastian and I
have not been held captive at Intel's headquarters since releasing a video
stating I did not agree with Intel's direction for the x299
platform but if that were the case I'm
sure tell would have treated me very
well I would also like to go like to go
on record as stating that in reference to my statements in that video that
I that that I was that I stand by everything I
said I'm out of here I'm pting
out
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description okay so silly intro aside
obviously I have spoken to Intel since we made this video I've expressed my
concerns and you know what they're big boys and girls who can handle a bit of
constructive criticism so obviously we're still working together x299 then
let's do a short recap for those of you who didn't see our previous video
Intel's brand new core I 9 chips plug
into motherboards with a brand new LGA 2066 socket that's connected to a brand
new chipset x299 that features more
updated IO more PCI Express Lanes and a
four-lane DMI 3.0 link ooh and finer
overclocking controls so pretty straightforward more and more better
what's less straightforward and how you take this is up to you is that the
socket now handles two separate
generations of CPUs the first Sky Lake X
is about what you would expect it's this year's Enthusiast grade High Core count
processor based on last year's quad core
Max consumer grade processor so we get
some fancy architectural improvements we get turbo boost max that bumps up two
cores instead of only one and finally
support for AVX 512 outside of
Zeon and the second is KB Lake X in an
attempt to appease hardcore overclockers
Intel based basically took their consumer grade kbl Lake chips disabled
their integrated Graphics processors and
glued them onto bigger packages with
better power delivery characteristics and bigger heat spreaders Intel hopes
that these chips will be a boon to folks who don't have $1,000 for a core I9
today but want to have a solid upgrade
path in the future for my part I feel
like only being able to populate half of
the RAM slots on a quad Channel board
and having PCI Express bandwidth
potentially cut to less than half is a
really confusing experience though I
would love to hear from you guys in the comments if you feel differ but wait
what less PCIe bandwidth I thought you said more okay
so for the topend core I9 we actually
get more than ever 44 versus 40 on the
previous Flagship 6950x where that potentially less than
half bit comes from is that anything
other than a core I9 gets far less as
few as only 16 which could affect the
performance of demanding Enthusiast features like SLI 10 gbit networking m.2
raid or Thunderbolt 3 and on the subject of m.2 raid it looks like vrock doesn't
have pricing yet and Intel actually isn't quite sure how they're going to roll that out but the good news is you
can boot from NVMe raid if it goes through the chipset without doing any of
that stuff it's only if it goes through the CPU that the vrock module is going
to come into play so let's get into benchmarks then we uh
unfortunately didn't get a kbl lake X CPU in time for this video but we did
get the 10 core core I9 7900x the least expensive option with
the full 44 PCI Express Lanes this along
with our Nifty AF ASUS Prime x299 Deluxe
some uh overclocking elbow grease all
X200 compatible chips are unlocked and
some validated memory from gskill gives us our main test bench today for
comparison we'll be looking at the z270 based core i7
7700k our x99 bench featuring last gen's
much more expensive 10 core and while we
don't have Threadripper yet we've thrown AMD's ryzen 1800x into The Fray
for comparison so in gaming there's clearly
no major difference between any of our CPUs at 4K 1080p tells a bit of a
different Tale But frankly none of this is a surprise clock speed is still King
when it comes to games and until properly implemented Vulcan and
directx12 games are common place that isn't going to change anytime soon as
for productivity this is cool one
interesting aspect of Skylake X's design is that it moves from relying heavily on
a ton of level three cach to relying
more on its higher speed level two cache
so where Broadwell e had 256 kilobytes
of level two per core Skylake X has a whopping one Meg each and the level
three becomes what's known as a victim cache so where One Core might look for
data in the level three find it isn't there but in another cor's level two
where it can then get push pushed to the level three cash that leaves the most
relevant cached data in the fastest cash
more often which results in some of the performance gains that we're seeing here
which is great given how core I 9 is intended to be used in everything from
high-end gaming rigs to high-end
workstations so core I9 7900x then great
performance and compared to Broadwell e
great price great relief then right in a
vacuum yes but the elephant that hasn't
yet entered the room is AMD's Threadripper Intel is faced with the
disadvantage of having shot first with
x299 and AMD has some time to tweak
their upcoming Threadripper CPU lineup which it said will be available with up
to 16 cores and 64 PCI Lanes so they
could put the gears to Intel on pricing
at which time Intel whose 12 14 16 and
18 core models will be arriving between August and Q4 of this year will have to
figure out how to respond if at all so you know what I am still
frustrated that it took Intel this long to wake up and I do still think that
this CPU lineup is unnecessarily confusing but whatever they're
motivation AMD's Innovation or their unconditional love for
enthusiasts it is true this is a great
release because we're back to Intel and AMD playing Lea frog and that is just
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