2008 was an interesting year. The Large
Hadron Collider was fired up for the first time. There was an historic
election in the US. We were all treated to that incredible Olympic ceremony in
Beijing. And might Shyamala Lama Lalan made another horrible movie. Wait, this
is a tech channel. Oh, right. Yeah. It also marked Intel's adoption of a brand
new naming scheme for its CPUs with the
high end of its processor range becoming Core i7 for the first time. Although
curiously, these chips contained four cores and eight threads, which h anyway,
9 years later, Intel is expanding this scheme again with the i9. And I'm not
talking about an expensive Bavarian concept car. Intel is now calling its
highestend consumer processors Core i9.
Though once again, there won't be a 9 core model in the mix. The first Core
i9's are part of the Skylake X family,
continuing with Intel's theme of releasing enthusiast level CPUs with a
one generation older micro architecture than the mainstream processor family.
However, unlike mainstream parts, Core
i9 SKUs feature 10 cores on the lowest
end with models with 12, 14, 16, and
even 18 cores forthcoming as well. And
they all feature hyperthreading, meaning you'll get anywhere between 20 and 36
threads. So, it's not surprising then that Intel is pushing these new chips as
solutions for what it calls mega tasking, a term defined by the Intel
marketing department as simultaneously
running multi-threaded hard-hitting workloads like gaming, streaming, and
recording on multiple monitors at once. Content creation like video, audio, and
image editing for the same project at once. Or, you know, what to hell with
it. We've got 18 processors. Why not do both at once? Intel is also boasting of
performance improvements in lightly threaded workloads. In addition to the
usual claims of slightly boosted raw IPC
over the previous generation, they've also updated Turbo Boost 3.0. Now, all
Core i9 and the Core i7 7820X will
feature two preferred strongest cores
for turbo frequencies and overclocking
that is better than the others instead of just one strongest core, which could
benefit applications like CPUbound gains
that might use more than one core, but won't take significant advantage of more
than two. But whether you're getting a Core i9, an
updated Core i7, or even for some reason, a KBL Lake X Core i5 or Core i7,
these new chips will all use the new LGA
2066 socket. So, they won't be backwards
compatible with any older boards. The
good news, though, is that thanks to the shiny new X299 chipset, you'll get
support for up to three PCI Express 3.0
X4 SSDs with a total of up to 44 PCIe
lanes directly off the CPU. So then depending on which CPU you choose, that
can mean tons of bandwidth for more graphics cards, more NVMe storage, and
other expansion cards that need lots of throughput, too, like Thunderbolt 3, for
example. Of course, all of this is going
to come at a price with Core i9 CPUs starting at a cool
$1,000 all the way up to 2 grand for the
top end 18 core model. Yikes. And even
though KBL X processors will start at the mid200s, they lack quad channel
memory support and have fewer PCIe lanes. So, folks will effectively be
paying extra for features on pricey high-end motherboards that they won't
even be able to use unless they upgrade their CPU down the line. But whatever
you choose to buy or not buy, all of
this is definitely good news in that
competition is finally ramping up in the CPU industry for the first time in over
half a decade. So, you know what I say? Go red team and also go blue team. I I
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