So somewhere between 1.25 and 1.28 volts the temps start to get out of hand. I wonder if this can be resolved with a delid or if it's a design/architecture thing.
Maybe it has something to do with the on board voltage regulator?
Could frequencies go higher with more voltage? Probably, but putting 1.3V through the Core i9-7900X veins resulted in temperature soaring beyond 100ºC and automatic throttling. We swapped out our favoured Noctua NH-D15S in favour of an EVGA CLC 280 liquid cooler but even that couldn't cope with the increase in voltage.
Are you reading the same charts? This is not much faster than the 1800X in most of the tests. It even loses to the 6950X in some. It's only looking like a big boost in hand brake in both reviews. Otherwise to be at 4.7ghz, it's actually the opposite of impressive. Also that temperature and power draw. Intel should sell delid kits themselves.
Shouldn't they test these with 4133+ sticks by now? The all the top end X299 motherboards can go to 4400mhz+. How does this one scale up with increasing ram speed.
Yeah, check out what they said about warhammer,
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Total War is well off the pace. The game appears to suffer from unexplained stuttering, and once again, the latest BIOS saw average FPS climb from 48.2 to 74.9
It looks pretty good but I don't really agree with the "all out assault" part. It's 10 cores for 999. Okay. That's good, but not all-out-assault good. I think the 10 core for $500 or something, that would have been all out. This is Intel responding in a calm measured way. They don't want to try mess up their margins much. I don't blame them at all. This is probably what I would have done. This way there is plenty of downward price adjustment possibility later when the higher end parts come out.
The unsoldered part is a bit concerning though. The average person can delid (I mean average american here, income wise) an i5 part without much worry. Delidding a $1000 part will make people very nervous.
I had an idea about just taking the chip and leaving it sitting in fairly pure >90% MEK over a weekend or something. Do you folks know if that would work? Anyone try it? I'm VERY sure it would not damage the chip but I'd try on a cheaper one first.
I know that. You don't get my point. I'm questioning the fact why it was slower in games while it has about the same single core IPC as Kaby based on other tests. It was already answered though
Are you reading the same charts? This is not much faster than the 1800X in most of the tests. It even loses to the 6950X in some. It's only looking like a big boost in hand brake in both reviews. Otherwise to be at 4.7ghz, it's actually the opposite of impressive. Also that temperature and power draw. Intel should sell delid kits themselves.
Faster in gaming benchmarks ( cheaper 6 and 8 cores skylake-X will be faster also)
8 cores skylake-X (i7 7820X) has 300Mhz higher base clock than 7900X. So, it should be easily faster than 1800X in almost all benchmarks (whether it is multi-cores or single core)
It seems like 4.6 GHz is the 24-7 clockspeed that we can expect.
Also the people who were expecting major IPC improvements over 4 core Skylake were not correct. There won't be much in the way of IPC until the next architecture.
There seems to be much more headroom with Skylake-X than its predecessor, and the main limiting factor is temperature if our CPU is anything to go by. We plumbed in 1.3V as a starting point and crept up from 4GHz all the way to an astounding 4.7GHz, which is 300MHz higher than we managed with the Core i7-6950X. Even more impressive was the fact that it was still completely stable with just 1.28V - far lower than the 1.44V we needed with the older CPU.
However, temperatures were definitely a concern with Cinebench and Terragen pushing 100°C with our 240mm AIO liquid cooler. As a result, while stable and potentially tameable under custom water-cooling, we decided to go for 4.6GHz for benchmarking, which required a super-low 1.22V. Interestingly our Core i7-6950X ran much cooler despite using a significantly higher voltage, albeit at 4.4GHz. This could well be due to thermal paste having been used between the heatspreader and CPU core with the new Skylake-X CPUs, in which case delidding could potentially yield significant benefits given the high heat density.
That's disappointing. A 5960X could do 4.4 - 4.6 GHz as well. A few golden samples could do 4.7 GHz.
Now granted, the 5960X has 8 cores versus the 10 cores on this 7900X on a 22nm process rather than this 14nm+ process for Skylake E, but it's still disappointing. At least 4.6 GHz is the lower end of what you can expect with a 6700K.
Overall though it looks like Intel will be perhaps 20-25% faster on single threaded than Threadripper. That's assuming this is stuck at 4.6 GHz, with many samples at 4.5 GHz. A few golden samples might push to 4.7 GHz 24-7.
So basically no improvements apart from the extra cores, and the slightly faster IPC. Also, I don't think delidding will get more than a couple of hundred MHz (it didn't on the 3770k, 4790k, or the 7700K).
Let's see if the HCC CPUs are soldered.
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Both handbrake. What the hell? Don't know, from the hexus review it doesn't look impressive at all. But let's wait and see.
I'm thinking that it's not as big as you think. With 25% more cores, it's just slightly faster per core.
Basically take the Ryzen scores at 4 GHz, and for apps that scale perfectly with cores, multiply then by 2. Then you should have a good educated estimate of Threadripper 16 core performance. Not all benchmarks of course scale linearly with cores (games especially). Also, we don't know what the penalty is for off die CCXs. We also don't know how quad channel RAM will affect Ryzen. Too many variables - so multiply by 2 is just a ballpark.
There are a few other weird parts. The Bit Tech review showed Ashes a lot slower. With the Ryzen optimizations, that should no longer be the case.
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It looks pretty good but I don't really agree with the "all out assault" part. It's 10 cores for 999. Okay. That's good, but not all-out-assault good. I think the 10 core for $500 or something, that would have been all out. This is Intel responding in a calm measured way. They don't want to try mess up their margins much. I don't blame them at all. This is probably what I would have done. This way there is plenty of downward price adjustment possibility later when the higher end parts come out.
The unsoldered part is a bit concerning though. The average person can delid (I mean average american here, income wise) an i5 part without much worry. Delidding a $1000 part will make people very nervous.
I had an idea about just taking the chip and leaving it sitting in fairly pure >90% MEK over a weekend or something. Do you folks know if that would work? Anyone try it? I'm VERY sure it would not damage the chip but I'd try on a cheaper one first.
They are clearly hoping that people will keep buying because of the single threaded performance over Ryzen and because "it's Intel".
Let's face it, the Ryzen 1700, and 1600 seem to be the best as far as priceerformance.
I think that this might be a big boon for silicon lottery as most people will want the CPU to be delidded professionally. But even then ... you lose your warranty.
There is also the matter that next year, AMD will release it's Zen+ CPUs. All Intel has is 14nm++ and 10nm, which is according to their own charts, slower than 14nm++ , although more power efficient (10nm+ will be faster though).
There seems to be much more headroom with Skylake-X than its predecessor, and the main limiting factor is temperature if our CPU is anything to go by. We plumbed in 1.3V as a starting point and crept up from 4GHz all the way to an astounding 4.7GHz, which is 300MHz higher than we managed with the Core i7-6950X. Even more impressive was the fact that it was still completely stable with just 1.28V - far lower than the 1.44V we needed with the older CPU.
However, temperatures were definitely a concern with Cinebench and Terragen pushing 100°C with our 240mm AIO liquid cooler. As a result, while stable and potentially tameable under custom water-cooling, we decided to go for 4.6GHz for benchmarking, which required a super-low 1.22V. Interestingly our Core i7-6950X ran much cooler despite using a significantly higher voltage, albeit at 4.4GHz. This could well be due to thermal paste having been used between the heatspreader and CPU core with the new Skylake-X CPUs, in which case delidding could potentially yield significant benefits given the high heat density.
We'll start with the usual proviso: your overclocking mileage may vary and discussions with various partners lead us to believe that frequency headroom fluctuates significantly from one sample to the next. Our chip seems to be a good one and had no qualms about running at 4.7GHz across all 10 cores. Heck, it needed only 1.25V to make it happen.
Could frequencies go higher with more voltage? Probably, but putting 1.3V through the Core i9-7900X veins resulted in temperature soaring beyond 100ºC and automatic throttling. We swapped out our favoured Noctua NH-D15S in favour of an EVGA CLC 280 liquid cooler but even that couldn't cope with the increase in voltage. The good news for users who have invested in a high-quality cooler for LGA2011v3 is that compatibility with LGA2066 has been retained with identical mounting-hole positions.
So it would appear that 1.3V/4.7 GHz might be the hard limit if you're running an AIO.
Man that pigeon poop TIM is really hampering things. And this is just for the 10C. To get any kinds of good OC on the 12-18C parts delidding is a must.
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