What is shocking that the Core i9 7920X will have a base clock of 2.9GHz, which is 400MHz slower than the Core i9 7900X that comes in at 3.3GHz, reveals the price list posted by the company. While the Core i9-7920X CPU, a 12-core chip with 24 threads will have 16.5MB of cache, the Core i9 7900X, a 10-core with 20 threads will have 1.375MB/core of the L3 cache.
Intel has updated other specifications too for the Core i9 7900X, which includes a Turbo Boost 2.0 frequency of 4.3GHz, a Turbo Boost Max 3.0 frequency of 4.5GHz, support for up to 44 PCI-e lanes, a TDP of 140W and DDR4-2666 RAM. However, the details pertaining to the memory, TDP and PCIe lanes for the 12-core variant have not been confirmed yet. The Core i9 7920X will come with a price tag of $1,189, which is way steeper than its rival AMD’s Threadripper 1920X that is 600MHz quicker, with a 3.5GHz base clock, and comes for $799. With the Core i9 and Threadripper to be released very soon, let’s wait and see who turns out to be the winner of the cores. Source: Neowin
