AMD tells 8086K Winners to trade in CPU for TR 1950X

[GoldenLag]

12 hours ago, Rune said:

 

AMD has no chill.

Intel has a chiller

[Coaxialgamer]

From a practical perspective , this really means nothing . It'll only work for the first 40 people , AND you need to have won your 8086k at the Intel sweepstakes.

But from a marketing perspective , this is the most shade thrown i've ever seen

[Emberstone]

I don't even think I'd sell the Threadripper in this case. I'd keep it.

 

I used an i7-980X from 2010 to 2017. The 980X was the i9-7980XE or TR 1950X of 2010. And that lasted me seven years. I think I'd be okay with a CPU that will, for every workload you could think of, last well into the 2020s.

[NumLock21]

AMD ask the first 40 winners to send in their unopened 8086K. Then they melt them down, made a very special 1950x, and sent it as a gift to Intel. Along with it, is a card that reads, "Intel Inside".

 

Update: Intel responded

https://twitter.com/IntelGaming/status/1008831597221593088

[Drak3]

14 hours ago, LoganTNZ said:

Tear them apart and analyse what intel does, maybe? If thats the case, thats really shady.

Due to the cross patent agreement, and the US patent system in general, AMD already knows anything useful. AMD already knew before Coffeelake.

 

After all, Coffee (and Kaby) are just node refinements of Skylake, which is just an optimization of Broadwell, which was just a die shrink of Haswell. The only real deviation is Skylake X/SP, which uses a Mesh bus instead of a ring bus.