Intel Core i7-6950X Engineering Sample Spotted and Sells for $1950

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/02/2016 08:19 AM | source: | 26 comment(s)

We see it often, sometimes engineering samples make their way to e-bay prior to being released. One lucky dude was able to get his hands on a Core i7-6950X, the new ten-core processor. It came at a price though, $1950 USD.

The photos back up the product, but also tell a thing about clock frequency, it seems that that base clock fro the product is just 3.00 GHz (with a Boost clock to be higher). The CPU gets a 140W TDP rating.

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

Four models Broadwell-E processors 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, but we think the Computex time-frame is a valid suggestion.

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Sukovsky
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#5265688 Posted on: 05/02/2016 09:54 AM

AMD please rise again. So sick of this overpriced stuff without progress. I mostly game and still see zero reason for upgrading my 4 year old system.

fantaskarsef
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#5265693 Posted on: 05/02/2016 10:05 AM

Well I wouldn't even buy that ES even if I wanted a Broadwell-E 6950X right now.

kanej2007
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#5265733 Posted on: 05/02/2016 11:45 AM

I'm quite happy with my good old i7 2600k cpu which easily overclocks to 4.6/4.7GHz on air...

IceVip
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#5265741 Posted on: 05/02/2016 12:12 PM

But them E5-2670 ES deals for 70 bucks right now, jfc.

Denial
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#5265765 Posted on: 05/02/2016 01:22 PM

AMD please rise again. So sick of this overpriced stuff without progress. I mostly game and still see zero reason for upgrading my 4 year old system.

Like 95% of games we play are GPU bottlenecked, not CPU. Even if newer processors were double the speed of older ones, there would be like no visible difference anyway.

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