Intel announced the Core X-series processor family in Computex.
The X-series comes with Intel’s first teraflop desktop CPUs, as well the much rumoured and much anticipated Intel Core i9 processor, bringing the highest performance for advanced gaming, VR and content creation. At the top of the lineup is the new Intel Core i9 Extreme Edition processor – the first consumer desktop CPU with 18 cores and 36 threads.
Now that is pretty extreme. Imagine the speed for image rendering, video encoding, audio production and real-time preview – running in parallel. That’s the kind of power Intel promises. In fact, we’ll let you do the comparison on the rest of the X-series lineup.
Here are some figures:
- Up to 10 percent faster multithread performance over previous generation
- Up to 15 percent faster single-thread performance over previous generation
- Massive 36-thread performance and quad-channel memory for content creation and extreme mega-tasking
- Up to 44 lanes of PCIe 3.0 directly connected to the CPU, to expand your system with fast SSDs, multiple discrete graphics cards and ultrafast Thunderbolt 3 technology
- Intel’s most scalable high-end desktop platform ever with 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, and 4- core options
In their own words “Gamers can play their favorite game, while they also stream, record and encode their gameplay, and share on social media – all while surrounded by multiple screens for a 12K experience with up to four discrete graphics cards.”
And it’s note just extra cores. Along with this lineup, the company also introduced the new Intel x299 chipset, which adds even more I/O and overclocking capabilities.There are also updates to Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, which will now identify the two top performing cores and direct critical workloads to those cores for a big jump in single- or multithreaded performance.
Partners are already on it, rolling out Intel X299 chipset-based motherboards and complete desktop systems, so consumers can look forward to getting their hands on the Intel Core X-series processor family in the coming weeks.
