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Well-nigh of Intel'southward loftier-terminate CPUs have stuck to the quad-core design for years, but at present Intel is bringing out the big guns to compete with AMD's new Ryzen chips with their multitude of cores. At Computex in Taipei, Intel has unveiled the updated Core Ten-Series with a flagship Core i9 CPU and the visitor'south showtime teraflop desktop CPUs. The top-of-the-line Core i9 has an incredible eighteen concrete cores with Hyper-Threading for a full of 36 threads. It's obscenely expensive, though.

The Core X-Serial consists of Cadre i9, i7, and i5 CPUs. The i3 isn't welcome in what's conspicuously intended as a high-stop family of CPUs. The Core i5 7640X is the entry-level model in the X-Series. It only has four cores and no Hyper-Threading, simply like current-gen mainstream i5 chips. Nevertheless, it has a higher clock speed, supports faster RAM, and uses the new Intel Socket R4 (LGA 2066). It'south priced at a reasonable $242.

If y'all want to step up to Intel'south new i7 family, the cheapest variant is the four-cadre, 8-thread 7740X. It'll retail for $339, which is merely a lilliputian more electric current i7 CPUs. Things brainstorm to diverge from existing Skylake and Kaby Lake designs with the 7800X, which has six cores and 12 threads for $389. At that place'southward also the 8-core, 16-thread 7820X for around $599.

That brings us to the new Core i9 lineup, which starts at 10 physical CPU cores with xx threads. This 7900X chip will retail for $999. The other i9 CPUs come in configurations with 12, 14, 16, and 18 cores (all with Hyper-Threading). Intel'south recommended price for those is $one,199, $ane,399, $1,699, and $one,999, respectively. The 7980XE is the showtime consumer chip to offer 18 cores, which will probably be overkill for almost everyone.

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The full X-Series lineup.

The quad-core Ten-Series chips are based on Kaby Lake, but all the others are notwithstanding derived from Skylake. Most of the improvements between those generations came in the class of power efficiency, but that's non really what the X-Series is almost. Intel says these fries are intended for gamers who desire to play, livestream, and record their gameplay at high resolution. Anyone who needs to edit big images or videos might as well be tempted to grab 1 of Intel's new many-core CPUs. Of class, all X-Serial CPUs are unlocked for easy overclocking.

The X-Series chips plug into the new LGA2066 socket and are designed to work with the X299 chipset. The combination of loftier core counts and new chipset features should offer big performance gains compared with the concluding time Intel went beyond quad-core with Broadwell-E. These new CPUs will price yous a pretty penny, but a certain class of enthusiast and professionals will exist happy to plunk down $2,000 for the fastest CPU Intel offers.

Stay tuned for more analysis here on ExtremeTech, including how these processors stack up against AMD's Ryzen lineup.

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