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if we look back Intel's high-end desktop

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or hedt lineup has for the most part

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been pretty clearly segmented from their mainstream lineup it's enjoyed

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processors with higher core counts and larger caches and the motherboards have

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had more RAM slots taking advantage of the bandwidth and capacity benefits of

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hedt's beefier memory controllers

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and of course on each edt workstation users have been able to count on being

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able to install a greater number of high bandwidth pci express devices without

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running into bottlenecks but

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i would actually make the argument that in the current environment

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Intel has actually damaged if not mostly

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destroyed the value proposition of their

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own entire high-end product stack

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Intel had a really good thing going in the absence of any competition they were

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able to stick with quad-core processors for consumers for 10

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years making the argument that well mainstream workloads like gaming ah they

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don't need more cores and anyone who does need more course they've probably

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got real work to do and they can justify ponying up for hedt

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but then AMD happened getting eight true cores

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with ryzen at the beginning of 2017 was

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a shock for the industry and i don't blame you if you've forgotten that eight

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core rising started at 329 us dollars with performance that

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compared favorably to Intel's hedt

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processors where eight cores at that time was going to cost you over a grand

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now Intel responded to that threat and they met AMD's high-end threadripper

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lineup head-on by dramatically increasing the core counts of its atdt

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lineup from 10 in the previous generation all the way to 18 with their

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7000 series core i9 cpus but that wasn't enough

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while mainstream core i7 was still the clear leader in single threaded

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workloads for anyone who did anything other than just gaming on their machine

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consumer ryzen had a huge price advantage thanks in part to its

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affordable motherboards so Intel finally had to bump their

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consumer chips as well first came the six core core i7 8700k at

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the end of 2017. now it didn't quite bridge the gap in budget workstation

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performance with ryzen but it did reduce

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AMD's lead somewhat and thanks to its superior single threaded performance it

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kept Intel on top for gaming and some other key workloads then fast forward

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another nine months and we got the core i9 9900k

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the first Intel branded a core consumer CPU and the first CPU ever on Intel's

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mainstream platform with core i9 branding along with the core i7 9700k

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also eight cores but without smt or hyper threading technology

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and then with those cpus we've got the real reason that Intel has been

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sandbagging consumer core accounts for so long

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because the hedt lineup has been traditionally based on Intel's

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workstation and or server platform

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where by the nature of these markets tech actually tends to move a little

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slower it has tended to lag behind their

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consumer processors architecturally sometimes as much as by two generations

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so compounding this performance disadvantage is the fact that hedt

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processors don't hit such high clock speeds due to power or thermal

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constraints and that they don't have an

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onboard graphics processor which over the last five years in particular has

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come to act as a co-processor for certain workloads on the consumer chips

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so we're at a very interesting crossroads right now

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think about it when we benchmark cpus

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for our reviews or whatever we tend to go out looking for workloads that help

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us demonstrate the potential difference in performance from one chip to another

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but in the real world how many workstation tasks like even workstation

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tasks do you actually perform in the course of a workday that require more

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than eight cores and of those how many of them can't be

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GPU accelerated in some way that is the ace up the sleeve of

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consumer chips and we'll be demonstrating that using the platforms

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you're looking at so with consumer chips you now have up to 16 threads enough to

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handle h.264 encoding without breaking a sweat and the same goes for light

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rendering for your 3d modeling and cad applications along with other

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traditionally CPU intensive tasks and this is especially true if you have a

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GPU that can be used to accelerate them

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so just look at how little our high-end

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desktop cpus affect spec view perfure

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it's basically just run to run variants in most scenarios in fact what's really

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interesting here is that our mainstream processors enjoy a significant advantage

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in applications like solidworks which is a traditionally workstation workload

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thanks to their much higher clock speeds

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this is again apparent in the case of adobe premiere where as we've tested

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before more cores does matter but only to a

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point so here we've reached that happy medium where the thread count the

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superior per core performance and the integrated graphics of the core i9 9900k

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put it in a league of its own way out ahead of Intel's own hddt chips

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even though some of them have more cores i mean

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this is amazing when you recall again

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that just two years ago we were stuck with four cores on Intel's consumer

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platform and had to pay a huge premium to get six or eight let alone the 10

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core 6950x that actually cost more by

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itself than the entire mainstream test

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bench that we are running here because remember the difference in CPU price is

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just part of the story the price difference between the platforms

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themselves can also be significant so

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all it'll take now is for AMD to continue to press the advantage of their

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modular CPU design and push core counts even higher with zen 2

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and then assuming that Intel follows suit and we

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know by now that they will have to the likely result we think is going to

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be the contraction and eventual disappearance of the traditional hedt

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lineup from Intel like think about it for light workstation use honestly apple

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hit the nail on the head with the imac photographers haven't really needed

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powerful workstations for a very long

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time now NVIDIA production hedt has offered

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clear performance improvements even as recently as two to three years ago and

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has also leveraged the increased pci express bandwidth with expansion cards

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like red rocket accelerators but GPU compute has eroded the market

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for devices like that very significantly i mean how many expansion cards do you

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have in your system so we're not saying that chips like

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Threadripper and Intel's own high core count cpus won't continue to have a

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place in desktop workstations there are

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workloads for them we're just saying that the use cases for

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those chips are not very mainstream anymore and that hedt is the wrong

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product for those kinds of customers and the reason is ecc memory support

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ryzen supports ecc from the ground floor

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all the way up to threadripper2 which makes it perfect for an entry-level

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workstation that has a need for ecc

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by contrast Intel has desperately clung

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to the paradigm of removing ecc from its

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consumer and hedt processors to force

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anyone doing more mission critical work to spend still more on a xeon

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that obviously isn't going to last so

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the bottom line is this we were wrong when we did our review of

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the xeon w we said xeon w had no reason to exist

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with only ecc to differentiate it from hedt because the performance was the

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same but actually hedt has no reason to

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exist if it doesn't support ecc because

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it's getting eaten away at from both the bottom and the top by Intel's own 9000

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series consumer chips and AMD's threadripper so here's our new proposed

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lineup you continue to expand the consumer

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chips with more cores when possible but don't compromise single threaded

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performance that's still your key advantage in certain workloads like

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gaming and solidworks then once that's done you replace the high core count

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lineup wholesale with xeon w so that's

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the lower end single socket only workstation z online and while you're at

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that you get your head out of your butt when it comes to the pricing of those

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chips they should end up in line with the core i9s that they will replace

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that way you cut out one entire platform to support which makes life easier on

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marketing teams and board partners and

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consumers now i suspect Intel won't take my advice they do like making money

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after all but there may come a time when it's absolutely necessary just like

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they're eventually going to have to bring coffee lake refresh to their lga

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1151 xeons threatening even xeon w

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but that's a conversation for another day for now the bottom line is this let's

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give credit where credit is due AMD brought more course to the table and

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Intel responded in kind so there has never been a better time to build a

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value-oriented desktop machine that can do serious workstation work and if this

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