Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E has 10 Cores and 20 Threads

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/13/2015 09:23 AM | source: | 85 comment(s)

Asia based xfastest was able to get their hands on some new info regarding the enthusiast lineup of Broadwell, yes Broadwell-E. In their item they mention four new Broadwell-E processors, the flagship being the Core i7-6950X that would get 10 physical CPU Cores hyper-threaded towards 20 Threads!

Broadwell-E will be tied to the X99 chipset as the website mentions as these processors will be tied towards socket LGA2011-v3. That would be good news for X99 owners as only a BIOS update will be required to get the new processors supported.

Processor	Cores/threads	Clock frequency	L3-cache	Socket
Intel Core i7-6950X	10/20	3GHz	25MB	LGA2011-v3
Intel Core i7-6900K	8/16	3,3GHz	20MB	LGA2011-v3
Intel Core i7-6850K	6/12	3,6GHz	15MB	LGA2011-v3
Intel Core i7-6800K	6/12	3,4GHz	15MB	LGA2011-v3

As stated, four models will be released, the i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7- 6800K. That Core i7-6950X thus is the flagship CPU. X is Extreme with totally unlocked multipliers and voltages, the K models are more or less the same with a slightly lower voltage ceiling. All models will get some Turbo (dynamic clock frequency) allowance as well. To date it is unknown when the new processors will be released.

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#5188485 Posted on: 11/13/2015 09:37 AM

Finally some info starts to surface. The question is whether the plan still remains:
Broadwell-E Q1-2016 (X99)
Skylake-E Q3-2016 (new chipset?)

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#5188490 Posted on: 11/13/2015 09:43 AM

Looks like 6800K is the new 5820k, going to be popular.

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#5188492 Posted on: 11/13/2015 09:46 AM

Curious about the pricing and overclockability though. Might be a viable upgrade to the X99 chipset owners down the road.

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#5188496 Posted on: 11/13/2015 09:50 AM

Sounds like Guru3D needs to update the GPU testing rig. I mean, 10 i7 hyperthreaded cores sounds like the CPU bottleneck effect can be removed tolerably for a few years.

Seriously, though, this demonstrates why we need AMD to succeed with the Zen architecture. Intel can easily pack 10 cores in a chip, yet they have been offering only 4 for the largest (serious) audience for almost a decade now because the competition is miserable. You'd think they would have moved up to 6 a few years ago, but no. People have to carry them money on a silver platter whether they want or not, so it's all the same to offer the same old stuff under a new name, with a few gimmicks added every now and then to satisfy hypocrites. Naturally the used the immense profits to develop smaller process nodes, which further expands the profits.

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#5188499 Posted on: 11/13/2015 09:54 AM

By the time Zen will be around, Intel will release more than 4 cores on the mainstream platform. So this problem won't be a problem, similar to what Nvidia does each time AMD takes the performance crown... temporarly. And then it's the same story all over again, because eventually we'll complain why it's not 8 cores on the mainstream platform / chipset / socket instead of 6. Just what I expect though, imho.

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#5188500 Posted on: 11/13/2015 09:55 AM

These all sound great, I might go for the 8 core or even 10 core if I will think it's worth it.

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#5188503 Posted on: 11/13/2015 09:56 AM

I guess too, with dx12 coming around we will see how many threads / cores are really supported by it. Then more cores / threads could be a serious sales argument of those CPUs even to gamers.

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