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Intel Core i9-7900X reviews are going live!

humbug said:
You know why that is? usual reviews use an nVidia GPU and their drivers don't play nice with Ryzen.
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Was keen to see how it did Vs kabylake.
But we know the answer now, this seems like panic mode tbh, ramp the voltage and clock speed and hope for the best.
They should call these the the fx editions.
 
gavinh87 said:
And there we have it. A non bias review from a well respected reviewer.
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I'm struggling to understand why they chose to stick to single threaded benchmarks only? even Cinebench multi-threaded is missing, they also setup X265 for a single threaded run only.

WTF? its almost as if they are protecting the 4 core CPU they are reviewing from anything that reveals its actual performance, which is a lot less that most of the CPU's they benched it against.
 
gavinh87 said:
Was keen to see how it did Vs kabylake.
But we know the answer now, this seems like panic mode tbh, ramp the voltage and clock speed and hope for the best.
They should call these the the fx editions.
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There are certainly mirrors between these chips and what happened during the Pentium 4 era.

It will be really interesting to see if AMD can do anything with Zen 2 that avoids this, whether it's IPC improvements or somehow increasing clock speeds whilst keeping TDP in check. Intel have had a few attempts now and pretty much failed so I'm not that hopeful.
 
EsaT said:
Power consumption of these higher core count chips is plain crazy when under heayv load...
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Proce...X-Processor-Review/Power-Perf-Dollar-Conclusi
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-7900x-skylake-x,5092-10.html

Rather clear Ryzen has forced Intel to push clocks well past optimum to avoid losing in performance.
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Whilst this is true, doesn't power consumption surge upwards with ryzen at 4.0 unless you're very lucky. I think most people would take performance over power consumption. Cost on the other hand...
 
Drollic said:
Whilst this is true, doesn't power consumption surge upwards with ryzen at 4.0 unless you're very lucky. I think most people would take performance over power consumption. Cost on the other hand...
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Why would anyone want to crank up Ryzen over optimum when for price of this Intel there's Threadripper with more cores?

If this i9-7900X were kept at clocks where TDP would be true it wouldn't look that exceptionally performing against desktop/mainstream 8-core Ryzen.
With more cores at optimum clocks AMD can give fully competitive processsing power without blowing TDP up through roof.

So AMD is now in very good position for multithreading loads computing.
 
I just threw a 7800k, Asus Strix E Gaming, 16Gb Team Group Dark T-Force and a Hydro H110i in the basket and it comes to £889.96.

If I could recycle my CPU cooler(I can't) then 769.97.

The last 3 years when I priced up an upgrade, that's how long I've been waiting to upgrade, it would be around £650. The big difference from then to now are the motherboard prices.
 
EsaT said:
Why would anyone want to crank up Ryzen over optimum when for price of this Intel there's Threadripper with more cores?
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The majority of people using this forum plus people who game and don't care much for more than 8 cores. It's an overclocking forum after all.
 
Also interesting comment from Anandtech that the socket is only officially capable of 165W.

Pretty much guarantees that the 18 core chip will require a new socket. Not simply a bios update.
 
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