At Computex 2018, Intel showcased a new beast CPU that will release later this year. Although Intel did not reveal any additional details, it demonstrated a 28-core CPU running at 5.0Ghz on all cores. Furthermore, this CPU supports Hyper Threading, meaning that it can handle 56 threads.
As said, Intel claims that this CPU will be available to the public in 2018. However, we don’t know how much this CPU will cost, its name, the socket it will be using, and whether it will be clocked at a 5.0Ghz frequency from the get-go.
In case you’re wondering, gamers should not invest right now in such a beast as most games nowadays cannot take advantage of more than four CPU cores/threads. Still, it will be interesting to see whether it will be able to match – in both single-thread and multi-thread gaming scenarios – Intel’s mainstream gaming CPUs.
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Most games will waste 20-24 of those 28 cores but that 5 GHz will definitively come in handy to push very high frame-rates.
Agreed. I have been waiting to see when I should upgrade myself but nothing has really enticed me to do so. Still rocking a 4790k
Same here, 4790k is still more than enough for 99% of the games.
These are the expected SPECS of this upcoming high-end CPU, but subject to speculation and change in the last moment.
It has been dubbed as “Skylake XCC”, where XCC should stand for Xtreme CORE count. It is based on a 700 mm² DIE.
It should be a Core i9 CPU, having a base clock of roughly around 2.7GHz.
It will require a new Platform, since this processor supports a HEXA-channel MEMORY interface, so previous Chipsets/Socket might not fully support this CPU.
Assuming it’s not Skylake XCC, then INTEL might also do two “14 core” dies of the Cascade Lake-X processor, if need be.
This processor isn’t targeting the average consumer/gamer though, and it should be out Q4 this year.
I didn’t even know there was 6 channel RAM. I wonder how expensive that would be and a mobo for this platform? Way, way beyond anything I need. Still it is impressive to see what Intel can do engineering wise.
AMD Epyc server line is octa-channel for reference.
This can handle previous console emulator perfectly..
Yes and no most emulators use only 1 to 2 cores and depends mostly on the cpu ipc and clockspeed
Good but the price will be 9999999999$
It’ll cost at least $12.
True.
Made me think of The Price Is Right show where the last bidder is pretty sure that everyone else has overbid so they bid $1 and win something that was obviously worth over a thousand dollars because they were closest without going over.
5ghz on LN2 or a waterchiller…a 700w CPU LOL,plus the cooling power usage…
https://i.imgur.com/RcE5tlh.png
Pretty impressive. Anyone that is doing something requiring 28 cores/ 56 threads will readily pay the price for this.
Ouch $$ but quite the performance.
Inside the pc https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da41e547717ccb8296e609cb515d2c27b5bb0080750cfdbf995bbad93cc07319.gif
So should I upgrade my OC’d 4790k now?
Nice, just purchased Vampyr. Gonna play it all day and night!!!!