Intel 12-core i9-7920X features a 2.9GHz base clock.

[FishTea]

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Intel quietly announced the base frequency of its yet unreleased 12-core i9 processor.

The Core i9-7920X, the only 12-core processor from Core-X series, has been added to the official price list. The listing reveals that the base frequency of the CPU is 2.9 GHz, which makes it 400 MHz slower than 10-core i9-7900X.

The CPU is also listed with 16.5 MB L3 cache. No other specs were revealed by Intel.

This means that Intel’s 12-core i9-7920X base frequency will be lower than AMD’s 12-core Threadripper 1920X by 600 MHz. 

 

Source: https://videocardz.com/newz/intels-12-core-i9-7920x-features-2-9-ghz-base-clock

 

The 799$ 12-core TR have a base clock of 3.5Ghz. Knowing how hot and power hungry i9's are these are Intel's only option to put the temperature under control. 

[iRileyx]

That $1199 price tag is much more interesting IMO. They'll probably boost up to a decent clock, I'd guess around 3.6 - 3.7ghz, will have to come back and check when it's announced  

 

Honestly expected them to charge a lot more for it, nice to see they're finally offering somewhat "decent" pricing on their higher end stuff.

[VerticalDiscussions]

Lol.

 

So the 18 core variant will be at 2.2Ghz xD?

[tom_w141]

I agree this would indicate that they are not soldered as some suspected the HCC models would be. However that is base clock. They probably do have a decent boost clock and a high single core boost. Still clocked that low TR does look intimidating.

[TidaLWaveZ]

Yes, but doesn't the other i9 boost 1+ ghz? So effectively with turbo boost it could be running 4.0ghz?

[leadeater]

Those frequencies are a huge hit compared to the 10 core 7900X, 400Mhz lower base, saw that coming heh.

 

Edit:

Fixed misread of info, oops lol

 

 

[Cookybiscuit]

Seems like a good idea to simply downclock the CPU's instead of not use toothpaste between the IHS and die, good thinking by Intel.

[tom_w141]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

800Mhz lower boost, saw that coming heh.

Where is the info for the boost? Thought it was base only atm.

[leadeater]

Just now, tom_w141 said:

Where is the info for the boost? Thought it was base only atm.

See my edit, I'm a retard lol.

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[Princess Luna]

A high turbo boost even with the 3.0 new technology 2 cores thingy won't make up for a very low clock base, if the 12 cores already can't keep up with 3ghz for base clocks (last time i had a 2.9ghz base processor was with the Core2Duo E7500 LOL!) then the i9 7980xe will be a joke on what comes to it's frequencies and thanks to the temperature issues you can even delid it  I am guessing 4ghz might out of the question.

 

We're not there yet for that many cores apparently, due to pricing it is likely you'll be better off with Xeons if you do need or want more than the 10 cores of the i9 7900x..... or obviously a TR.

[tom_w141]

Going to take a wild stab in the dark and say boost is 3.6-3.7GHz

 

Based on this:

 

http://ark.intel.com/products/120500/Intel-Xeon-Platinum-8158-Processor-24_75M-Cache-3_00-GHz

[TidaLWaveZ]

Just now, tom_w141 said:

Going to take a wild stab in the dark and say boost is 3.7GHz

Sounds like a good estimate, I was thinking 3.5 minimum 3.9 max.

[Lord Nicoll]

17 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Those frequencies are a huge hit compared to the 10 core 7900X, 400Mhz lower base, saw that coming heh.

 

Edit:

Fixed misread of info, oops lol

 

 

Yeah, these HCC are definitely Xeon based, the 10 core and lower are straight up SkyLake (I dun derped there) versions if the Broadwell ones with the normal layout, these HCC models will not be very well received since Dual Xeons will probably be cheaper and they *probably* will overclock bad, since Xeons are shit overclockers too. 

Edited July 19, 2017 by Lord Nicoll
Wrote Kaby Lake instead of Skylake

[tom_w141]

Just now, TidaLWaveZ said:

Sounds like a good estimate, I was thinking 3.5 minimum 3.9 max.

Considering these are basically Xeons and the Xeon has a base/boost of 3/3.7 I'm going with 2.9/3.6-3.7. I edited the post you quoted.

[tom_w141]

24 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

somewhat "decent" pricing

Still clocked lower at stock and more expensive than the 1950X 16 core (that includes a cooler) so its pretty much DOA.

[leadeater]

10 minutes ago, tom_w141 said:

Going to take a wild stab in the dark and say boost is 3.6-3.7GHz

 

Based on this:

 

http://ark.intel.com/products/120500/Intel-Xeon-Platinum-8158-Processor-24_75M-Cache-3_00-GHz

 

6 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Sounds like a good estimate, I was thinking 3.5 minimum 3.9 max.

Any takers on guessing all core boost?  Past Xeons all core boost around 500Mhz so I'll go with that.

 

 

[TidaLWaveZ]

3 minutes ago, tom_w141 said:

Considering these are basically Xeons and the Xeon has a base/boost of 3/3.7 I'm going with 2.9/3.6-3.7. I edited the post you quoted.

That and I'd say it's safe to assume it won't surpass the 7900x in regards to boost.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

56 minutes ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Lol.

 

So the 18 core variant will be at 2.2Ghz xD?

Well, I don't know if 2.2 or what, but judging by how things were on the server side, a downwards slope in clocks is to be expected as the core count increases. There are issues with clocking more cores higher, and issues with staying within TDP for the platform. Overclocking may lift the second restriction, providing there are sufficiently "overkill" motherboards, and face only the first limitation, but for stock base clocks there will be a stricter limitation.

 

I mean, did anyone expect 7700K clocks in each of the 18 cores?

 

56 minutes ago, tom_w141 said:

Still clocked that low TR does look intimidating.

I'm really intrigued about how thinks will work out for Threadripper. Being 2 dies glued together^TM, in principle it will have no problem getting each core to 1800X speed, or even OC'ing to the same ~4.0GHz ceiling. However, that will come at roughly linear increase in power draw compared to the consumer chips. Even assuming heat dissipation is not an issue due to the larger surface area, will it cause excessive stress on X399 motherboards? Will we get another der8auer video?  Or is the energy efficiency high enough that most of the distance can be covered at the rated TDP?

 

If at the end of the day TR clocks higher at high core counts, we could have an interesting, non-trivial comparison between platforms, potentially with the single-threaded performance gap reverting as the core count increases. That would be would news for channels like LTT, as there would be a lot to discuss and explain...

[tom_w141]

1 minute ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Will we get another der8auer video?

The good thing about Intel rushing out 1st probably means the VRM issue has been considered already.

[The Benjamins]

so for the crude clock X core calculation it is 33 (7900x) vs 34.8 (7920x), a nice 5% improvement for adding 20% more cores.

[tom_w141]

4 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

so for the crude clock X core calculation it is 33 (7900x) vs 34.8 (7920x), a nice 5% improvement for adding 20% more cores.

That's nice if considered in a vacuum.

 

However the same calculation for the cheaper 1950X = 54.4

[The Benjamins]

9 minutes ago, tom_w141 said:

That's nice if considered in a vacuum.

 

However the same calculation for the cheaper 1950X = 54.4

well I wouldn't use this between Archs. but you can for 1920x vs 1950x (40.8 vs 54) (32% for 33% more cores) 

[tom_w141]

2 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

well I wouldn't use this between Archs. but you can for 1920x vs 1950x (40.8 vs 54) (32% for 33% more cores) 

Either way unless you can overclock the absolute nuts off it its pretty much DOA. For $200 less you get 4 more cores at higher speed and a cooler so you are good to go right out of the box.

 

Shame that discussion on this topic has near died since it ended up in the wrong forum for no reason  

[leadeater]

Thread has been polished up and moved back to news section. @zeraine00 In future more original input should be done, you should also edit the OP and add some more for this one. We expect a bit more than a single line/sentence.