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Guru3D.com » News » Socket 2066 (Core i9-7960X) Processor with 16 cores surfaces in GeekBench

Socket 2066 (Core i9-7960X) Processor with 16 cores surfaces in GeekBench

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/24/2017 02:29 PM | source: | 33 comment(s)
Socket 2066 (Core i9-7960X) Processor with 16 cores surfaces in GeekBench

In the GeekBench ranking list a new 16-core processor with 32-threads has surfaced. The unit is tagged as Socket 2066 and thus is the recently announced (yet not available) Core i9-7960X. The results reveal a few interesting things.

The $1699 Core i9-7960X Skylake-E processor is identified as having 16 cores and 32 threads. The base clock frequency is 2.51 GHz, indicative for an engineering sample and perhaps with this many cores, it might even be the final base-clock. The chip has 1MB L2-cache per core and 22 MB of shared L3 cache in-between the cores as you can see in the screenshot.

The twp scores are as follows:

  • Single score results: 5238 points
  • Multi-threaded score: 33672 points

So when you compare a little back and forth with the ranking lists then that single threaded score brings the processor at the level of a i5-7600 perf wise, and the multi-threaded score actually brings it close to the 10-core Core i9 7900X. That processor obviously has a base clock of 3.3 GHz. With a little Turbo tweaking we do expect the final performance to be better though.
 

 ClockTurbo 2.0/3.0Cores / threadsL3-cachePCIe 3.0Mem ChannelsTDPPrice
Core i9 7980XE TBA TBA 18/36 TBA TBA Quad-channel DDR4-2666 TBA $1999
Core i9 7960X 2.5 GHz TBA 16/32 22MB TBA Quad-channel DDR4-2666 TBA $1699
Core i9 7940X TBA TBA 14/28 TBA TBA Quad-channel DDR4-2666 TBA $1399
Core i9 7920X TBA. TBA 12/24 TBA TBA Quad-channel DDR4-2666 TBA $1199
Core i9 7900X 3.3 GHz 4.3/4.5 GHz 10/20 13,75 MB 44 Quad-channel DDR4-2666 140 W $999
Core i7 7820X 3.6 GHz 4.3/4.5 GHz 8/16 11 MB 28 Quad-channel DDR4-2666 140 W $599
Core i7 7800X 3.5 GHz 4.0 GHz 6/12 8,25 MB 28 Quad-channel DDR4-2666 140 W $389
Core i7 7740X 4.3 GHz 4.5 GHz 4/8 8 MB 16 Dual-channel DDR4-2666 112 W $339
Core i5 7640X 4.0 GHz 4.2 GHz 4/4 6 MB 16 Dual-channel DDR4-2666 112 W $242

 



Socket 2066 (Core i9-7960X) Processor with 16 cores surfaces in GeekBench Socket 2066 (Core i9-7960X) Processor with 16 cores surfaces in GeekBench Socket 2066 (Core i9-7960X) Processor with 16 cores surfaces in GeekBench




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schmidtbag
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#5455424 Posted on: 07/25/2017 02:38 PM
Turbo will boost certain cores when others are idle.

No, it will turbo all cores if it needs to, but it just doesn't turbo to the maximum advertised rating (look at the table for 6th gen):
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005523.html
So if that's supposed to remain under the CPU's TDP, why is it above the base clock?

The difference now is motherboards have control on whether or not they want to maximize turbo boost to allow all cores to boost at max turbo bins.

Which boards specifically don't?

Laptops never use this due to thermal/power constraints.

Yes they do, that's one of the reasons for getting an i5 or i7 laptop over an i3 (most laptop i3, i5, and i7 CPUs are dual cores with HT and lie in the same frequency range). Here's an example of an i5 you'll find in a laptop that has turbo speeds:
https://ark.intel.com/products/95443/Intel-Core-i5-7200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3-10-GHz

D3M1G0D
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#5455463 Posted on: 07/25/2017 04:10 PM
No, it will turbo all cores if it needs to, but it just doesn't turbo to the maximum advertised rating (look at the table for 6th gen):
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005523.html
So if that's supposed to remain under the CPU's TDP, why is it above the base clock?
The CPU can turbo on all cores, but only if the workload allows it. For instance, I've noticed that on the default configuration, my 4790K only boosts up to 4.1 GHz when all four cores are maxed out, whereas the specs show it boosting to 4.2 GHz. This is most likely due to the computing apps that I run, which typically uses a lot of floating-point data, which is more stressful on the CPU than other data types (e.g., integer). HWMonitor shows that the TDP is right up against the max TDP at this clock so it cannot go any higher. Even on turbo, the CPU is supposed to stay within the thermal design limits.

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#5455507 Posted on: 07/25/2017 06:10 PM
No, it will turbo all cores if it needs to, but it just doesn't turbo to the maximum advertised rating (look at the table for 6th gen):
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005523.html
So if that's supposed to remain under the CPU's TDP, why is it above the base clock?


Which boards specifically don't?


Yes they do, that's one of the reasons for getting an i5 or i7 laptop over an i3 (most laptop i3, i5, and i7 CPUs are dual cores with HT and lie in the same frequency range). Here's an example of an i5 you'll find in a laptop that has turbo speeds:
https://ark.intel.com/products/95443/Intel-Core-i5-7200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3-10-GHz

I'm aware that it will turbo on all cores.

Intel spec will allow one turbo bin above base clock when all cores are under 100% load provided thermal and power are in check.

The difference is default spec tries to keep it at TDP or below when turboing.

All High end boards use that 'enhanced' turbo functionality.
Maybe generic or low end chipset versions don't use it.

Frankly I don't care either way, the high end boards allow you to disable it as you see fit.

As for laptops, you misread what I meant.

Of course they use turbo, but they do not use the same functionality of 'enhanced' turbo from high end boards use.
AKA max turbo bin on all cores for improved performance.

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