Main Differences between X99 and Z97?

[Meawa]

What are the main differences between X99 and Z97?

[TRINHbot1101001]

The main things that come to mind are DDR4 RAM and more PCI lanes.

[Archangel1994]

X99 = More PCIe lanes, DDR4 RAM and CPu's with more than 4 cores

[mr.skyrim_pc]

X99 is more expensive, has more pci bandwidth, has ddr4,and has lga 2011-3.

[Stefanopolis]

X99 is for the Haswell-E 6 & 8 core CPU's, using a, LGA 2011-3 Socket. X99 supports DDR4, more SATA connectivity than the previous generation, and so on and so forth. It is commonly referred to as Intel's "Enthusiast" Chipset. X99 has more PCI lanes for more expansion than Z97, Intel's "Consumer" Chipset  that provides support for DDR3, Intel Core i3 - i5 - i7's, and has been out for longer than the X99 Chipset.

X99 = Enthusiast

Z97 = Consumer

Intel has stated that Z97 will support Broadwell, their 14 nanometer die shrink.

[LukaP]

2-4 more cores, DDR4, 12-24 more PCIe lanes, some 300 dollars

[Enderman]

2011-3 socket

more expensive

ddr4

more pcie lanes

more bragging rights

[VincentiusIV]

Z97 is for the enthusiast. 9 out of 10 gamers would go for this platform as it is cheaper and delivers the same gaming performance compared to x99. x99 however is ALOT faster in things like rendering video's. Not to mention , x99 can handle heavy multitasking. With heavy i mean REALY heavy over the top heavy. For example: Play battlefield 4 while streaming to twitch. At the same time rendering a video and doing prime95. x99 is more pointed towards the content creators.

[Rheinwasser]

Z97 is for the enthusiast. 9 out of 10 gamers would go for this platform as it is cheaper and delivers the same gaming performance compared to x99. x99 however is ALOT faster in things like rendering video's. Not to mention , x99 can handle heavy multitasking. With heavy i mean REALY heavy over the top heavy. For example: Play battlefield 4 while streaming to twitch. At the same time rendering a video and doing prime95. x99 is more pointed towards the content creators.

unlikely that you are going to be doing prime95 while playing and streaming. 

[Jade]

Z97 is for the enthusiast. 9 out of 10 gamers would go for this platform as it is cheaper and delivers the same gaming performance compared to x99. x99 however is ALOT faster in things like rendering video's. Not to mention , x99 can handle heavy multitasking. With heavy i mean REALY heavy over the top heavy. For example: Play battlefield 4 while streaming to twitch. At the same time rendering a video and doing prime95. x99 is more pointed towards the content creators.

wat. H97 and Z97 are for consumer, x99 is enthusiast. 

[Meawa]

Thanks for all the feedback!

[mohgames]

the 8 cores baby

[luisbvs]

Does anybody knows how many PCI-E lanes are in each of the chipsets? (Z97 and X99)

[FruitBasketSilex]

Does anybody knows how many PCI-E lanes are in each of the chipsets? (Z97 and X99)

Its by CPU, not chip set.

[Jaytoo]

Out of all the outstanding differences I'd say the onboard storage capability is large compared to Z97.

[arnavvr]

Does anybody knows how many PCI-E lanes are in each of the chipsets? (Z97 and X99)

 

Z97: 16 PCI Lanes X99: 5820K: 28 PCI Lanes 59xx: 40 PCI Lanes

[Hieb]

Z97 is for the enthusiast. 9 out of 10 gamers would go for this platform as it is cheaper and delivers the same gaming performance compared to x99. x99 however is ALOT faster in things like rendering video's. Not to mention , x99 can handle heavy multitasking. With heavy i mean REALY heavy over the top heavy. For example: Play battlefield 4 while streaming to twitch. At the same time rendering a video and doing prime95. x99 is more pointed towards the content creators.

 

You can do that on any computer. How well it performs is a different story. Running somethign like prime95 or rendering video in the background while playing a game will suck on ANY computer, because rendering video and doing benchmarks will use 100% of the CPU no matter how powerful your CPU is. That's how linear/parallel workloads work.

[Embattled]

wat. H97 and Z97 are for consumer, x99 is enthusiast. 

I don't think normal consumer would be OCing, H97 is consumer, Z97 is enthusiast/gamer, and X99 is I have money that I can throw at things

[FLUFFYJELLO]

Asdf apparently LTT posted my post 3 times?

[FLUFFYJELLO]

I don't think normal consumer would be OCing, H97 is consumer, Z97 is enthusiast/gamer, and X99 is I have money that I can throw at things

^ this.

I agree completely, though X99 is also for incredibly CPU intensive multi threaded tasks. Worth $1000 for just the chip when you can build an entire tolerable Z97 rig for that much? ... Depends on the person I guess lol

[FLUFFYJELLO]

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