Intel Broadwell-E Core i7 chip to feature 10 cores, 20 threads

[HEXUS]

The 3.0GHz Core i7-6950X will crown the range of four Broadwell-E processors.

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[Luke7]

Will they run Crysis?

[AGTDenton]

I'll hang on for Skylake-E - hopefully by then we'll see 12cores+ so that I'll actually get a doubling from my Gulftown, otherwise I can't see the point in upgrading. But finally we're moving on from 8...

[zaph0d]

I remember back when a flagship product launched about the same time as the mainstream, not over a year later and it's getting longer.
I think Nehelem was the last in fact. Since then intel have been tech that's a generation old with the same naming nomenclature as the current mainstream ie SB-EX was 2xxx gen tech but released as 3xxx.

[spacein_vader]

I remember back when a flagship product launched about the same time as the mainstream, not over a year later and it's getting longer.
I think Nehelem was the last in fact. Since then intel have been tech that's a generation old with the same naming nomenclature as the current mainstream ie SB-EX was 2xxx gen tech but released as 3xxx.

Say what you like about Intel though, their market segmentation is brilliant. If you thought charging a premium for overclocking was clever, splitting overclocking parameters and then charging for each tier separately is a stroke of (evil?) genius!

If anyone ever wondered why a competitive AMD is vital for PC users this speaks volumes.

[SciFi]

PCI lanes info would have been nice :-(

[pastymuncher]

Looking at the ridiculous Skylake pricing I dread to think how much these will be.

[ceejays88]

These should be good for my VM pc ha

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Will they run Crysis?

such an outdated comment lol

[DemonHighwayman]

Will they run Crysis?

Not without a dedicated GPU to help things along !

I picked up Crysis a couple weeks ago in a steam sale and only just get over 65fps average at 1440p using a gtx 970 and 4790k. When Crysis first came out I could run it at a decent frame rate (can't remember what but it was smooth) at 1680x1050 on my 8800 Ultra and Q6600. So hilariously enough it's probably a fair question with todays higher resolutions.

[username2]

is it worth it?
I will just comment it with this graph.

[kalniel]

Text doesn't appear to match the picture. Perhaps Hexus ought to add wild(?) rumour to the title

[amitr]

why cant they call xeon which sound much cooler

[DanceswithUnix]

is it worth it?
I will just comment it with this graph.

That graph assumes only one single kernel of one single program running across all cores.

My work PC, a bit busy:

top - 15:54:42 up 35 days, 6:03, 18 users, load average: 10.98, 5.05, 2.00
Tasks: 402 total, 20 running, 382 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie

Yeah, I could use 10 cores. I max out 6 cores/12 threads on a daily basis.

[Worms]

WOW, sick! Can't wait for these to come on the market!

[mapesdhs]

Needs more PCIe lanes. We had 40 with 6-cores back with SB-E. With the rise of M.2, etc., 40 isn't enough anymore.