The Intel i9-7900x is Here!
Not sure where everyone has been the past few days if you haven’t heard of the new i9-7900x, but it’s here. It’s the most powerful consumer chip ever sold by Intel. It boasts 10 cores at 3.3 GHz (max 4.3 GHz) with a 13.75 MB L3 cache. It also has a new chipset, the X299, and a new LGA2066 socket. The catch? Both the chipset and socket are not compatible with the previous CPUs. However, this Skylake-X chip does distance itself from it’s predecessors in a great way. The cache is much better, and so is the mesh architecture, and opposed to the ring bus architecture in the previous systems.
Now if you haven’t heard, AMD’s Ryzen chips are now here as well, and they created quite the stir in the hardware arena. On the high end, the chips have 12 and 16 core Threadtripper CPUs. This means that the battle for market share is about to get much more intense.
The Intel i9-7900x currently retails for 1,000 USD on Amazon. AMD’s Ryzen chips are cheaper at the moment, but Intel has many die-hard fans. In the core war that will most surely ensue, only time will tell.
Read more about this chip from PCWorld’s excellent article here.