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An 8-core Skylake-X at 600 bux or less would be nice, but I don't see it happening. Too much hubris over at Intel.
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# ? May 7, 2017 13:08 |
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:i still find it funny people are legitimately upset and disappointed that AMD 'only' managed to get within like 15% of Intel's latest offering of a decade long refinement process (thats in turn based on an already established design skeleton!) after only a few years of alpha and beta development on a complete brand spanking new design (unless zen is a refinement of the old k6s or whatever) Yeah, I think some people on this forum built up an idea that Ryzen would instantly surpass all of Intel's offerings, and when it didn't, apparently the release became a greater disappointment than the Titanic.
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# ? May 7, 2017 20:15 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:An 8-core Skylake-X at 600 bux or less would be nice, but I don't see it happening. with ECC support but... Combat Pretzel posted:Too much hubris over at Intel.
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# ? May 7, 2017 22:58 |
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Finally some new info on Sky-X: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/specs-unreleased-high-end-core-i7-and-core-i9-7900-series-processors-hit-the-web.html Fuckers aren't putting 44 lanes on anything shy of the 10C part.
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# ? May 12, 2017 21:28 |
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Those clocks on the higher end parts are really high for such dense CPU's. Same boost speeds as a 7700k on the 8c/10c parts. If real, it gives me hope that the rumored 6c/12t mainstream parts can hit clocks similar to what the 7700k is hitting right now.
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# ? May 12, 2017 21:32 |
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Beautiful Ninja posted:Those clocks on the higher end parts are really high for such dense CPU's. Same boost speeds as a 7700k on the 8c/10c parts. Skylake clocked a little lower than Kaby Lake overall, so I think a reliable 5 GHz is a little too much to expect. Unless Intel backported some of the tweaks from Kaby onto the Skylake-X die, or is straight-up running this on the improved Kaby Lake 14nm+ process, I guess. I'd rate that unlikely but not impossible. The HEDT chips have always been clocked really conservatively, which probably increases yields for Intel. Haswell-E would reliably do 4.5 GHz with extra voltage, it just runs really hot (200W+). Golden samples could go to 4.7 GHz and weren't too incredibly uncommon. The numbers sound high for factory clocks, and especially compared to what Intel usually does on their HEDT lineup, but it could be done if they are willing to divert some of the top-binned low-leakage chips and hit them with some voltage. So I'd rate this one as "unlikely but not impossible" too. If so, AMD is gonna clown on them for their power consumption, but Intel will have the last laugh on performance. If 6C parts with some extra voltage were reliably hitting 4.6 GHz, often hitting 4.7, and golden samples were hitting 4.8 then I'd say that was pretty great. I'd even be happy with lowering all those clocks by 100 MHz - that would be Haswell-E clocks with Skylake IPC, which would still be quite a ways ahead of Ryzen's single-thread performance. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 22:06 on May 12, 2017 |
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What's with the cache? The 8MB on the 4C/8T and 8.25MB on the 6C/12T. And jesus, shifting the high lane count to the 10C one, that's mean.
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# ? May 12, 2017 23:31 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:What's with the cache? The 8MB on the 4C/8T and 8.25MB on the 6C/12T. And jesus, shifting the high lane count to the 10C one, that's mean. Especially since it'd stand to reason they'll charge $999 minimum for the 10C/20T CPU, and probably closer to $1299. They should've made a 7820X and a 7850X, both 8C/16T, but give the 50X the 44 lanes.
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# ? May 12, 2017 23:44 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Finally some new info on Sky-X: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/specs-unreleased-high-end-core-i7-and-core-i9-7900-series-processors-hit-the-web.html this naming scheme is knee-slapping
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# ? May 13, 2017 00:07 |
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Does anyone remember that article that showed that RAM frequency was important for frametime consistency on Intel CPUs from the last few years? I think it at least covered Sandy bridge through haswell, and basically demolished the old "ram frequency doesn't matter at all" mantra that was common for a long time. Was written about one or two years ago iirc
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# ? May 13, 2017 00:38 |
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I think it was 2400 15 where the diminishing returns hit real hard. At least that probably was the reason I bought my memory rated for that. Setting it to 2666 14 doesn't feel any faster, but the XMP setting is good for it, so why not?
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# ? May 13, 2017 01:07 |
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VostokProgram posted:Does anyone remember that article that showed that RAM frequency was important for frametime consistency on Intel CPUs from the last few years? I think it at least covered Sandy bridge through haswell, and basically demolished the old "ram frequency doesn't matter at all" mantra that was common for a long time. Was written about one or two years ago iirc http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-is-it-finally-time-to-upgrade-your-core-i5-2500k This? We need things like reddit bots to post poo poo that people always ask for! This is 50 percent of my posts for the last year!
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# ? May 13, 2017 01:50 |
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Jago posted:http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-is-it-finally-time-to-upgrade-your-core-i5-2500k That's probably the one I'm thinking of. I could have sworn somebody looked at 99th percentile frametimes across different memory speeds though. Maybe I'm conflating two different articles
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# ? May 13, 2017 02:07 |
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VostokProgram posted:Does anyone remember that article that showed that RAM frequency was important for frametime consistency on Intel CPUs from the last few years? I think it at least covered Sandy bridge through haswell, and basically demolished the old "ram frequency doesn't matter at all" mantra that was common for a long time. Was written about one or two years ago iirc Doesn't have 99% but has minimums
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# ? May 13, 2017 03:03 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:What's with the cache? The 8MB on the 4C/8T and 8.25MB on the 6C/12T. And jesus, shifting the high lane count to the 10C one, that's mean. 1.375MB of L3 per core on those models above the 7740K but also 1MB(!) of L2 per core if i'm reading the rumors correctly
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# ? May 13, 2017 04:20 |
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I hope the 1MB l2 makes it to the non HEDT chips.
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# ? May 13, 2017 04:44 |
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it would be a very krizanich move to make a separate core for consumer products that have less l2 cache even though ever since sandy bridge the core structures outside the l3 cache have been identical
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# ? May 13, 2017 10:52 |
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:1.375MB of L3 per core on those models above the 7740K but also 1MB(!) of L2 per core if i'm reading the rumors correctly
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# ? May 13, 2017 11:05 |
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Place your Core i9 7920X price bets now! I'd say $2299.
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# ? May 13, 2017 11:19 |
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eames posted:Place your Core i9 7920X price bets now! I'd say $2299. There are many reasons to buy at this price/performance ratio instead of AMD or last-gen two socket Xeons, such as
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# ? May 13, 2017 11:32 |
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blowfish posted:There are many reasons to buy at this price/performance ratio instead of AMD or last-gen two socket Xeons, such as the ability to clock past 4 GHz
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# ? May 13, 2017 12:07 |
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blowfish posted:There are many reasons to buy at this price/performance ratio instead of AMD or last-gen two socket Xeons, such as Muh frames
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# ? May 13, 2017 16:11 |
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I just don't see a use case for even prosumers for a 10/12 core $1500+ CPU. They could potentially buy dual xeons. I only see hardware enthusiasts buying something like this, I would rather purchase a Ryzen just cost wise. I'm not an AMD fan boy, but I would rather overspend on my video card where I might see an appreciable difference than my CPU which might perform less so.
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# ? May 13, 2017 18:24 |
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1MB L2 on cheaper chips might really help frametime consistency. That would own.
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# ? May 13, 2017 18:43 |
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PerrineClostermann posted:Muh frames
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# ? May 13, 2017 19:02 |
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:1MB L2 on cheaper chips might really help frametime consistency. That would own. It would, but a 4x jump in L2 cache on the same node is not going to come cheap. It'll also be real interesting to see how the lack of TurboBoost on all the 4c/6c chips turns out--hope for some overclocking headroom, I guess, but that's probably gonna hurt those in search of muh frames.
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# ? May 13, 2017 21:23 |
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PerrineClostermann posted:Muh frames 2500K poo poo sample. 4.1. 1333 RAM (1CT at least). I could switch to Ryzen (2nd gen, I'd like to think I'm not an idiot), and not miss the extra 'muh frames' I never had, and not have to deal with Intel's BS anymore.
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# ? May 13, 2017 23:13 |
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DrDork posted:It would, but a 4x jump in L2 cache on the same node is not going to come cheap.
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# ? May 13, 2017 23:46 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:Are L2 cache structures bigger than L3 ones? One would assume so, since they're quite a bit faster, and faster memory almost always means less dense structures. I wonder if the shift is because they're not really seeing a lot of use for massive shared L3 in 6+ core chips?
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# ? May 14, 2017 04:28 |
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I'd figure the more cores the more coherency issues (and locking? Does that happen in a shared cache?), plus given that each core probably always does its own thing (apart from kernel calls), there's probably plenty of contention over who gets to keep what in the cache or not.
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# ? May 14, 2017 11:21 |
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Forget about reasonable Intel HEDT prices, as long as AMD only manages to fight Intel's product segmentation division than their engineering division.
Palladium fucked around with this message at 11:52 on May 14, 2017 |
# ? May 14, 2017 11:49 |
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I still expect it quite a bit above AMDs offering, but I'm still crossing my fingers the eight core ones drop to a more reasonable level. The lack of lanes is slightly annoying though. If they keep the existing price structure, the octocore would drop to the price range of the current high lane count six core HEDTs, which is around 600-700€ where I live, which would probably be acceptable.
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# ? May 14, 2017 11:56 |
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What in the hell, you only get the extra PCI-E Lanes from the 10C chip? I know SLI is loosing it's appeal but Jesus that seams scummy. Then at the bottom end, WTF is with the 4C/4T i7? I guess it goes back that the i# really doesn't mean jack crap from when it was introduced to now. And finally we are getting the i9 that we all though would be what the HEDT Chips were going to be called when the first 6C chip made its appearance, and they went with the -E instead. Man I continue to hope, and then loose pretty much any interested in building a new system. The cost vs performance increase just isn't there vs my old 3930K outside of the power savings and NVME. Outside of that I am not left wanting enough to consider $1000 for just the CPU alone. (Or maybe going AMD, but I am going to have to see what the refresh/HEDT chips offer first).
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# ? May 14, 2017 23:41 |
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Yay for dual channel memory on HEDT platform. That's so lame.
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# ? May 15, 2017 00:03 |
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Yay for dual channel memory on HEDT platform. Yeah, Skylake-X is really making me think that I made the right call by picking up a 5820k to replace a fried 2500k a year ago, rather than hoping Intel would put out anything reasonably attractive in the <$400 bracket in the near future.
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# ? May 15, 2017 00:09 |
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Intel continues to build hype and then disappoint everyone except the hardcore fanboys who will buy the 2% performance improvement every 18 months because it says Intel on it. Ryzen 2 when?
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# ? May 15, 2017 00:15 |
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Kazinsal posted:Ryzen 2 when? If they take a card from their GPU team, rebadges will be out in 6 months.
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# ? May 15, 2017 00:21 |
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DrDork posted:If they take a card from their GPU team, rebadges will be out in 6 months. The GPU rebadges usually at least have some BIOS fixes that make the cards a bit beefier in the long run so that would kinda be a good thing
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# ? May 15, 2017 00:53 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:I'd figure the more cores the more coherency issues (and locking? Does that happen in a shared cache?), plus given that each core probably always does its own thing (apart from kernel calls), there's probably plenty of contention over who gets to keep what in the cache or not. I always thought the whole reason for big caches was to make up for inadequacies of main system RAM (lack of bandwidth and/or high latency). Maybe with higher speed DDR4 + XPoint DRAM + 6 channel memory (maybe improved hardware memory prefetcher too?) Intel thinks lots of cache isn't necessary for Skylake Xeons? edit: Keeps the die size + power usage down if they can shrink the caches a bunch I guess. PC LOAD LETTER fucked around with this message at 00:59 on May 15, 2017 |
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Maybe with higher speed DDR4 + XPoint DRAM + 6 channel memory (maybe improved hardware memory prefetcher too?) Intel thinks lots of cache isn't necessary for Skylake Xeons? edit: Keeps the die size + power usage down if they can shrink the caches a bunch I guess. Overall cache hasn't really gone down by too much, though. A 5820k, for example, had 6x256k L2 + 15MB L3 = 16.5MB overall to back 6 cores. The new 7800X has 6x1MB L2 + 8.25MB L3 = 14.25MB to back 6 cores. Similar for the 5960k at 22MB total vs the 7820k at 19MB for 8 cores each. So it's more of a shift from L3 to L2 cache than a huge drop in cache. Considering that L2 undoubtedly takes up more die space than L3, the drop of 2.25MB/3MB might be the sacrifice needed to keep the total cache die sizes similar. It also looks like The 6/8/10/12c's will be sticking with quad-channel 2666 memory, while the 4c chips are stuck with dual-channel. Considering X99 already defacto supports quad-channel upwards of 3200, it doesn't seem like much of an improvement.
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