Intel to possibly announce even more impressive chip than 7980XE at Computex

Burr · 5 Jun 2018 at 17:46

It's a custom cooling loop. https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-dominus-spotted-with-28-core-cascade-lake-x-cpu
Looks like 4x80mm coolers on the VRM LOL. 1000w draw from what i hear (take with a pinch of salt).

Interesting that it only has 6 dimm slots (6 channel), perhaps the dominus mobo isn't indicative of other mobo's in the CS-X line...?

humbug · 5 Jun 2018 at 17:54

Burr said:
It's a custom cooling loop. https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-dominus-spotted-with-28-core-cascade-lake-x-cpu
Looks like 4x80mm coolers on the VRM LOL. 1000w draw from what i hear (take with a pinch of salt).

Interesting that it only has 6 dimm slots (6 channel), perhaps the dominus mobo isn't indicative of other mobo's in the CS-X line...?

overclocked to 4.9Ghz the 7900X pulls 450 watts and that's only a ten core, 28 cores running at that speed 1000 watts is positivity a conservative estimation

Radox-0 · 5 Jun 2018 at 18:01

Power draw will be immense! I can pull 700 watts running 4.9 GHz in a cinebench run on 18 cores (and thats when my water is dead cold along with the room in middle of winter). 5.0 GHz on 28 cores must be massive power draw :eek:

BongoHunter · 5 Jun 2018 at 18:03

They really want the performance crown if they're going to release this chip at those clocks - will be interesting to see what production motherboards look like...

humbug · 5 Jun 2018 at 18:10

BongoHunter said:
They really want the performance crown if they're going to release this chip at those clocks - will be interesting to see what production motherboards look like...

They are not releasing them with these clocks, the TDP is 205 Watts, not 1005 watts..... these are 3.0Ghz chips. this is just Intel marketing, they are suggesting that you can click a few buttons and its running at 5Ghz, that idea is all they have left so they push it relentlessly.

WingZero30 · 5 Jun 2018 at 18:18

With the introduction of this 28 core chip, does this mean its the end of the line for X299 & 2066 and there won't be any further refreshes/releases on the current X299 platform in the future ?

kitfit1 · 5 Jun 2018 at 18:28

The PSU is a Superflower Leadex 1600W Titanium. Some peeps in the link were suggesting that they may have been using a water chiller, if they had been the whole board and pipework would have had to be insulated in the same way that is used for Phase cooling. It could have been a water chiller though but the pics would have shown condensation all over the pipes, coldplate and around the cpu socket.

Burr · 5 Jun 2018 at 18:29

humbug said:
overclocked to 4.9Ghz the 7900X pulls 450 watts and that's only a ten core, 28 cores running at that speed 1000 watts is positivity a conservative estimation

Yes you're probably right. Though i meant the source i heard that from wasn't 100%.

WingZero30 said:
With the introduction of this 28 core chip, does this mean its the end of the line for X299 & 2066 and there won't be any further refreshes/releases on the current X299 platform in the future ?

Most likely. Actually i think this is socket 3647, it's a repurposed server grade board Asus are using... Not sure. :confused:

Armageus · 5 Jun 2018 at 18:31

WingZero30 said:
With the introduction of this 28 core chip, does this mean its the end of the line for X299 & 2066 and there won't be any further refreshes/releases on the current X299 platform in the future ?

It depends whether it actually becomes a thing or not. Although saying that it's not like Intel doesn't have form for releasing dead end platforms for specific processors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Skulltrail

sideways14a · 5 Jun 2018 at 22:11

So it is indeed a heavily overclocked item, intel have not yet released intended boost clocks... i bet they are waiting on TR + first to see how much they need to push it to look good in the eyes of those whole like to see a winner in a test.

WingZero30 · 5 Jun 2018 at 23:25

Burr said:
Most likely. Actually i think this is socket 3647, it's a repurposed server grade board Asus are using... Not sure.

Cascade Lake-X is indeed 3647 as evident by pics of the 28 core setup. I think unless intel splits Cascade Lake-X into both 3647 & 2066 then I don't think Skylake-X on socket 2066 would get any further refreshes or successor.

Zeed · 5 Jun 2018 at 23:28

Great to see that intell pulled a Xeon cpu and making it in to HEDT

I bet its SOLDERED

BTVA · 6 Jun 2018 at 00:04

Burr said:
It's a custom cooling loop. https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-dominus-spotted-with-28-core-cascade-lake-x-cpu
Looks like 4x80mm coolers on the VRM LOL. 1000w draw from what i hear (take with a pinch of salt).

Interesting that it only has 6 dimm slots (6 channel), perhaps the dominus mobo isn't indicative of other mobo's in the CS-X line...?

that is the demo rig from Asus booth. The one which ran 5Ghz all cores cinebench was cooled by a phase change in a different rig.

BTVA · 6 Jun 2018 at 00:13

guys, there is actually 2 different rigs. The one Intel demonstrated in an on stage presentation was cooled by a phase change system with not yet known motherboard nor PSU.
The Asus one is a demo system at Asus booth.

smilingcrow · 6 Jun 2018 at 00:13

WingZero30 said:
With the introduction of this 28 core chip, does this mean its the end of the line for X299 & 2066 and there won't be any further refreshes/releases on the current X299 platform in the future ?

I highly doubt it.

Burr · 6 Jun 2018 at 00:31

BTVA said:
that is the demo rig from Asus booth. The one which ran 5Ghz all cores cinebench was cooled by a phase change in a different rig.

There does appear to be a bit of ambiguity here.
Intel are now stating that this product will come to market in Q4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/12893/intels-28core-5-ghz-cpu-coming-in-q4
If it is running on phase change we can assume the 5GHz is an OC and not the actual turbo frequency. Bit misleading there.

Hotwired · 6 Jun 2018 at 01:05

Oh wonderful. Partial information as clickbait is the announcement.

Klo · 6 Jun 2018 at 01:57

Tom's Hardware said:
According to this image we sourced from Engadget's compressed keynote video on YouTube, Intel apparently was running some sort of closed-loop cooling that required insulating material around the tubing. This could be a multi-stage phase cooler (sub-zero cooling), or possibly a more mundane water chiller, under the table. We also spot more shielding over the long rectangular waterblock and what appears to be six sticks of RAM flanking the processor on each side. That implies this platform is based on the (until now) enterprise-class LGA3647 socket. This means the processor could be a variant of the $8,700 Xeon Platinum Scalable processor we reviewed here, albeit with an unlocked multiplier. (That doesn't bode well for pricing). We'll dig for more details and update as necessary.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-28-core-5-ghz,37201.html

Beren · 6 Jun 2018 at 02:20

Nah, that's not insulation - it's the power cable

Seriously this is awesome - both companies pushing as hard as they possibly can is amazing for consumers. I hope AMD have something equally epic waiting to be unleashed...

Troezar · 6 Jun 2018 at 05:35

Now all we need is AMD to start the same game with GPUs. I suspect that could be a lot harder though.