Intel X299 expected before year's end

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

:O!

 

I wantz one

7950x 20 cores 40 threads at 5GHz

[VerticalDiscussions]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

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o-o

 

What would i do with 20 cores tough .....

[Guest]

1 minute ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

o-o

 

What would i do with 20 cores tough .....

Assign each Chrome tab to their own core so they would use less memory, I don't even know if that is possible

[That Norwegian Guy]

46 minutes ago, Clanscorpia said:

Hahaha more like $750 AMD cant afford to undercut that much. 

Undercut? $750 would be overshooting, their top Ryzen is a CONSUMER i7 competitor, not an enthusiast i7 competitor. Just because they demo'd it against an X chip people have funny ideas in their heads.

 

We've seen AMD's Hyderabad shipping insurance numbers estimating value of the top chip to $500.

Those haven't been wrong before, +/- $50

 

And there were two 8-core SKUs, one at $350 and one at $500

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

o-o

 

What would i do with 20 cores tough .....

To scrap on rockwall for drawing in a cave. 

[ThreePinkApples]

8 hours ago, ttam said:

Wouldn't it be X199?

They're probably aligning the naming with the other chipsets (X2XX series)

[AresKrieger]

1 hour ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

Undercut? $750 would be overshooting, their top Ryzen is a CONSUMER i7 competitor, not an enthusiast i7 competitor. Just because they demo'd it against an X chip people have funny ideas in their heads.

 

We've seen AMD's Hyderabad shipping insurance numbers estimating value of the top chip to $500.

Those haven't been wrong before, +/- $50

 

And there were two 8-core SKUs, one at $350 and one at $500

AMD has never tried to put their prices really low unless it didn't have a competitive product, so if it actually competes on the higher end it will not be cheap remotely

[NumLock21]

8 hours ago, ttam said:

Wouldn't it be X199?

No, x199 will just be x99.

[Sniperfox47]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Qpi is long gone between the chipset and cpu. X99 chipset runs on dmi 2.0

Qpi is still there in the cpu. Cpus with 2 qpi can work with 2 cpus.

Oh so you're right. My mistake. I was under the impression that the extreme platform still had the QPI on the outside.

[Maslofski]

9 hours ago, ttam said:

Wouldn't it be X199?

they already had Z170 last year, so this year with the new Z270 boards X299 will blend in better into the naming scheme. 

[NumLock21]

x199 makes no sense

E.g.

Druken master 

Druken master 2

Druken master 3

 

Not

Druken master

Druken master 1

Druken master 2

Druken master 3

 

So Druken master is Druken Master 0? No one names something with 0.

 

X99, X299.

Not X099, X199, X299

[Suika]

Can't wait to watch another reason to not upgrade go by, although that 4c is intriguing. Is that a budget option to the enthusiast platform? And if so, how budget? Because IMO it'd have to make it worth the more expensive chipset.

[Sniperfox47]

5 minutes ago, Suika said:

Can't wait to watch another reason to not upgrade go by, although that 4c is intriguing. Is that a budget option to the enthusiast platform? And if so, how budget? Because IMO it'd have to make it worth the more expensive chipset.

The expensive chipset might be worth it in it's own right. It's going to have additional PCIe 3.0 lanes out of it now like Skylake/Kaby Lake's extras. Curious how many.

[Suika]

12 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

The expensive chipset might be worth it in it's own right. It's going to have additional PCIe 3.0 lanes out of it now like Skylake/Kaby Lake's extras. Curious how many.

I was realizing that shortly after, but considering the usual price of the 6800k and 7700k aren't that far off, the 4c doesn't make a lot of sense unless Intel inflates the 6c's pricing or just goes for only 40 lane options.

[Mr.Meerkat]

10 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

amd needs a IPC upgrade fast

To be honest, if AMD offered Bulldozer chips (that are AM4) alongside Zen chips with the Bulldozer chips still at their current prices or lower, I would not be surprised if they flew off shelves like sheeps flocking to a new product as they are excellent CPU for budget workstations, DIY servers, budget streaming machines and budget gaming PCs...it's just being killed by it's lack of upgrades .

 

I mean it's performance is definitely not lacking if the program/scenario is able to utilise all 8 cores as the FX8320 can beat a i5 6600K at the same clock speeds...(yep a CPU that costs almost half as much is beating the more expensive CPU...)

[Sniperfox47]

2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

To be honest, if AMD offered Bulldozer chips (that are AM4) alongside Zen chips with the Bulldozer chips still at their current prices or lower, I would not be surprised if they flew off shelves like sheeps flocking to a new product as they are excellent CPU for budget workstations, DIY servers, budget streaming machines and budget gaming PCs...it's just being killed by it's lack of upgrades .

 

I mean it's performance is definitely not lacking if the program/scenario is able to utilise all 8 cores as the FX8320 can beat a i5 6600K at the same clock speeds...(yep a CPU that costs almost half as much is beating the more expensive CPU...)

It can beat an it 6600K at integer calculations. For FP32/64 calculations it gets torn apart, but it's amazing for integer calculations. That's the whole point of CMT.

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, Sniperfox47 said:

It can beat an it 6600K at integer calculations. For FP32/64 calculations it gets torn apart, but it's amazing for integer calculations. That's the whole point of CMT.

I know, just stating the obvious fact how if the current FX chips actually had an upgrade path, they wouldn't be that bad  

[NumLock21]

3 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

o-o

 

What would i do with 20 cores tough .....

 

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

To scrap on rockwall for drawing in a cave. 

Do you see why I wrote that?

 

[VerticalDiscussions]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

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A flintstones reference :)?

[ZothOmmog]

I understand why they went with X299 instead of X199, it's simple because it would be confusing with Kaby Lake being Z270.

[Deli]

X79 -> X99 -> X299.

[NumLock21]

13 minutes ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

 

A flintstones reference :)?

Nothing to do with that. Analyze your post extremely carefully. 

[DildorTheDecent]

57 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

 

 

Going from Z97 to Z170 didn't really make much sense either imo

[VerticalDiscussions]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

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Aha! Its either to plant them on the rockwall to make a semi circular door of some sorts or that was a demolition plan of some sorts

 

If im still wrong, then i mightaswell go eat a cookie :/.

[NumLock21]

4 hours ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Going from Z97 to Z170 didn't really make much sense either imo

It make sense going from 9 to 10. Because there is the H110, B150, H170, and Z170.

 

3 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Aha! Its either to plant them on the rockwall to make a semi circular door of some sorts or that was a demolition plan of some sorts

 

If im still wrong, then i mightaswell go eat a cookie :/.

You're still wrong.

The answer is in your post, located below.

 

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