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Intel Core i9-7900X reviews are going live!

davido_labido said:
Just seen this when I went to the front page. I didn't even know we had this to review!!!

https://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2017/06/16/intel-core-i9-7900x-and-x299-chipset-revie/1

Thought you folks would be interested ;)
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Thanks for posting that. Interestingly (in particular for a certain intel fanboy we have had lurking lately)
The i9 7900x performs worse in games and is some media/ rendering packages than an i7 6950x clocked 200mhz lower.
It runs at almost 100c under a 240 AIO when using just 1.3v :p

Power consumption and cost aside, I don't see this as an upgrade from the 6950x. If anything its a downgrade :/
 
Nice. Have to say somewhat suprised. In all the games the lower clocked 6950x @ 4.4 Ghz outperforms the 7900x @ 4.6 Ghz. In PC mark editing test the 6950x is ahead again. Single core and multi-threaded performance in Cinebench and CPU-Z seem nice but not translating to actual increase aside from Handbrake.

Will Bios improve things as unless I am going mad, does not look all that great, aside from the price. Guess some tweaks and more benchmarks will showcase it somewhat more though.
 
Radox-0 said:
Nice. Have to say somewhat suprised. In all the games the lower clocked 6950x @ 4.4 Ghz outperforms the 7900x @ 4.6 Ghz. In PC mark editing test the 6950x is ahead again. Single core and multi-threaded performance in Cinebench and CPU-Z seem nice but not translating to actual increase aside from Handbrake.

Will Bios improve things as unless I am going mad, does not look all that great, aside from the price. Guess some tweaks and more benchmarks will showcase it somewhat more though.
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There is nothing to tweak, this is not a new architecture, its just skylake/kabylake with more cores added to it.
 
gavinh87 said:
There is nothing to tweak, this is not a new architecture, its just skylake/kabylake with more cores added to it.
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I mean BIOS wise and in general we should with more tests see a more accurate picture. Obviously in some of these tests something must be up because as you say, this is Kaby Level performance against Broadwell also being able to attain higher speeds. Does not make sense some of the results tbh, aside from Cinebench and CPU-Z.
 
zornyan said:
these benchmarks are....worrying

but with 125w100W higher tdp than the titan Ryzen, this seems a bit DOA.

much like the fury and fury x,7700K the air cooled one is going to throttle HARD , we know the titan 7700k struggles out of the box, and this has another 50% power to dissipate. meaning you're going to need the watercooler version so looking at spending £500 over the titan Ryzen for this...

and, tdp is still important, that aio is still going to struggle with 375w 267W
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Yes i mixed and match the titan with ryzen and 7700k, sue me:p
 
As for some of the things mentioned above I would like to remind us of the following:

1. Very early reviews;
2. Immature BIOS;
3. Low frequency RAM (2666) used (remember how SKL & KBL flourish with 3000+ RAM in games!);
4. Possibly the lower L3 cache and higher L2 cache aren't liked much by games?
 
Probably more realistic though given how most of the people gaming on such a chip, will likely have fancy graphics cards and high res monitors. The point being you could do the same thing for less money.
 
Doobedoo said:
Probably more realistic though given how most of the people gaming on such a chip, will likely have fancy graphics cards and high res monitors. The point being you could do the same thing for less money.
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Call me naive but I don't think most of the people are going to be gaming on the 7900x.
 
davido_labido said:
Just seen this when I went to the front page. I didn't even know we had this to review!!!

https://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2017/06/16/intel-core-i9-7900x-and-x299-chipset-revie/1

Thought you folks would be interested ;)
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just going through this review and got to the cinebench scores, the ryzen ones they are using seem off. for example on there a ryzen 1700 oc to 3.95ghz gets 1731, yet on this forum someone has a 1700 at 3.8ghz get 1745. i know there a bit of leeway but honestly a slower clocked chip should be slower even with the few points the score can swing about.

and then you look at hexus.nets cinebench scores ryzens doing even worse than the bit-tech ones. not saying ryzen would be faster than the i9-7900 but them cinebench scores are old and havent been updated since 1.0.0.6 and if so that shows a lack of professionalism from both sites.
 
Radox-0 said:
Nice. Have to say somewhat suprised. In all the games the lower clocked 6950x @ 4.4 Ghz outperforms the 7900x @ 4.6 Ghz. In PC mark editing test the 6950x is ahead again. Single core and multi-threaded performance in Cinebench and CPU-Z seem nice but not translating to actual increase aside from Handbrake.

Will Bios improve things as unless I am going mad, does not look all that great, aside from the price. Guess some tweaks and more benchmarks will showcase it somewhat more though.
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yes the bios will improve the few outliners, hexus and bit tech aren't official reviews as their using back hand deals to get tech early, so not even on release bios.

but they did get a 100% performance boost in two games just from a bios update today.

what we can say is the 7820x is going to knock the socks off of any r7 ryzen:)
 
zornyan said:
yes the bios will improve the few outliners, hexus and bit tech aren't official reviews as their using back hand deals to get tech early, so not even on release bios.

but they did get a 100% performance boost in two games just from a bios update today.

what we can say is the 7820x is going to knock the socks off of any r7 ryzen:)
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I love how you are dressing this up lol.
And so it bloody well should. The added cost of CPU and and board it had better be better.
Of course this isn't the competition, you keep comparing apples to oranges depending on which makes intel look better.
 
Disco_P said:
Call me naive but I don't think most of the people are going to be gaming on the 7900x.
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No I quite agree they are way to expensive for the average person. The point I am making is the relatively small minority that Is worried about owning the best, will be using high end hardware and gaming at high resolutions making their scenario likely to be GPU bound.
 
It's great stuff from Intel and for those that an afford it. But on price it will likely be competing with the 16 core Threadripper so we will have to wait and see how the dust settles. Great for progressions sake though more ores for less money :)
 
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