Intel releases all the technical data of the Intel Basins Falls processors with Skylake-X architecture that were yet to be released and the truth is, they disappoint a bit.

Intel Basins Falls processors for the professional segment, in part, are already on the market, specifically we have three Skylake-X and two Kaby Lake-X. Four Skylake-X processors are yet to arrive, of which we had hardly any data, but today they have leaked the final data of the i9 7920X, i9 7940X, i9 7960X and i9 7980XE, which in some points disappoint a lot, especially in the PCIe 3.0 lanes, which will carry 44 PCIe lanes, therefore, it is a slight disappointment, since we expected some more.

The one that stands out the most of all these processors is the Skylake-X i9 7980XE, which will have a frequency of 2.6GHz, a Boost 2.0 mode of 4.2GHz and a Boost 3.0 mode of 4.4GHz and stands out because it is an eighteen-core processor and thirty-six threads, with a L3 cache of 24.75MB, with a total TDP of 165W and a price of 2000 $. This processor, like the rest of these processors, is designed for other things than for gaming, especially for programming, photo and video editing and other heavy tasks, since they are basically modified Xeon processors.

It remains to know the benchmark data of these new processors and to see the performance of the Threadripper, but come on, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X with sixteen cores and thirty-two processing threads, costing half that of Intel's top processor, points to eat Basins Falls processors with potatoes, especially since 64GB of RAM already cost between € 400-500 and motherboards between € 350-500, therefore, with what we would save, we could buy these two components, justification more that clear not to opt for Intel and opt for AMD, even though we have a little less performance.

Source: VZ