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The 5960x already is DDR4. Also, Intel's supposed to be releasing the Broadwell-E 6950X in a few weeks, which will have 10 cores. That being said, the 6950X is
by Sanddancer 10y ago
The 5960x already is DDR4. Also, Intel's supposed to be releasing the Broadwell-E 6950X in a few weeks, which will have 10 cores. That being said, the 6950X is also supposed to be $1500. The real fun will be the bang/buck comparison against the 6900K, which is going to have 8 cores and be $1000. Regarding bang/buck, it's hard to say, but I'd probably say that AMD places their part at the $800 price point, which would definitely give it a decent bang/buck.
Another wrench in comparing things is that AMD's promising some interesting peripheral support, like 64 lanes of pcie, usb 3.1 and direct nvme support, which will further complicate direct comparisons until release date. Intel's hanging on with the x99 chipset, which is stuck with usb 2.0 and pcie 2 for the support lanes.
Fall will be interesting, to say the least.
- sundvor 10y agoOn an overclocked 2600k now, with the ageing Sandy Bridge, I'm in the market for a >4 core CPU myself. It's a shame the AMD is nearly half a year away, I need the invoice dated June 30 at the latest for tax purposes. So if the AUD isn't too horrible I'll probably just get a 6850k, water-cooled and overclocked, with the Samsung 950 M2 drive and 32gb DDR4 ram with room for 64. For my work in Visual Studio/NCrunch/Resharper this will be a killer combo, especially for the I/O offered by 4 PCIE lanes to the SSD. Can't wait to see Intel get some competition again though.
- stefantalpalaru 10y ago> On an overclocked 2600k now I'm on an overclocked FX-8320E and this is what it looks like: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1601020-HA-1512297GA19&obr_sor=y&obr_hgv=FX-8370E&obr_sor=y&obr_hgv=FX-8320E%404.4GHz http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1601020-HA-1512297GA19&ob... The competition is already there, if your software is designed for the multicore age.