05-14-2017, 05:20 AM
http://techreport.com/news/31898/rumor-c...66-in-june
Quote:There's a lot to talk about here. Most profound is further fuel for the notion that Intel will once again be increasing the core count of its top-shelf Core-series processor, this time to 12 cores. The idea of having to buy a ten-core processor to run a pair of graphics cards with a full 16 lanes of PCIe 3.0 for each remains as annoying as ever.
A few discrepancies popped up between the information posted by Sweepr and the information in the image posted by dooon. Sweepr claims that the Skylake-X-based Core i9 processors will have TDP specs ranging up to 160W, but all of the chips in the image appear to say 140W. Sweepr also claims that the Skylake-X processors will have 1 MB of L2 cache. That would be four times as much as today's Skylake and Kaby Lake processors, and might help to explain the relatively paltry amount of L3 cache in the Skylake-X CPUs. The Core i7-6950X ten-core CPU has 25MB of L3 cache, for comparison's sake.
The information didn't come with any pricing details, so we'll have to wait and see what the bottom line looks like for these chips—assuming this information is even accurate. If so, that means we'll be seeing these parts next month save for the 12-core Core i9-7920X. That part is supposedly launching in August.