Intel Will launch a 28 core Desktop Processor at End Of Year

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/05/2018 09:38 AM | source: | 65 comment(s)

Intel just announced a 28-core/56-thread high-end desktop processor, this would likely be called "Skylake XCC" with XCC for extreme core count. The processor has a 700 mm² die on a client-segment package.

Intel will release the processor likely this year in Q4, however, given its severe complexity, we doubt that X299 will be the platform for it as Skylake XCC will get a hexa-channel memory interface. This proc will get a base clock at 2.70 GHz. Intel did not specify any turbo frequencies but did manage to overclock to 5.00 GHz. How it's was cooled was not disclosed. Intel did score a nice 7,334 Cinebench points with it. We mentioned Skylake XCC, but that is also an assumption, as it Intel might as well be doing two 14 core dies with Cascade Lake-X. This product should launch in Q4-2018, the name of this SKU has not yet been determined, but it'll be something Core i9.

AMD tomorrow will hold its press conference, rumor is there will be a 32-core Threadripper announcement ;)

Photo courtesy - Engadget

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Xserces
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#5553483 Posted on: 06/05/2018 09:41 AM

Yeah for how much money? 3K$?

"Desktop"

Clawedge
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#5553485 Posted on: 06/05/2018 09:51 AM

that is beautiful.

It will create a trickle down effect for sure.

By the way, i do believe cinebench15 is not a very reliable benchmark when the scores are close to 10,000 cos the benchmark does not run long enough.

Any word on TDP?

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#5553486 Posted on: 06/05/2018 10:10 AM

looks like skylake-SP is coming to desktop, never thought something like that would happen.

700mm^2 aint gonna be cheap ,

I wonder what would trigger them to produce such a thing. almost seems like they've been spooked by something.

for perspective the 28core skylake-sp Xeon Platinum 8180 with hexa channel memory has an msrp of $10K

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#5553487 Posted on: 06/05/2018 10:15 AM

I wonder how Intel still plans to release new CPUs that are still 5% behind their performance because they still haven't worked around Spectre.

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#5553490 Posted on: 06/05/2018 10:26 AM

desktop? what makes it desktop? this is server stuff.
I smell core wars incoming LOL

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#5553496 Posted on: 06/05/2018 11:08 AM

28 cores at 5GHz is NUTS

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#5553501 Posted on: 06/05/2018 11:24 AM

So if AMD's EPIC processors were "dies glued together", I'm wondering how intel will pull this off, without any "glue" !?

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#5553504 Posted on: 06/05/2018 11:36 AM

So if AMD's EPIC processors were "dies glued together", I'm wondering how intel will pull this off, without any "glue" !?

They will just fold a dollar bill under the heat spreader, on top of the dies. According to Intel's logic, money is all that matters and it solves all the problems.

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