The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9 7900X, i7 7820X and i7 7800X Tested
by Ian Cutress on June 19, 2017 9:01 AM ESTBenchmarking Performance: CPU Legacy Tests
Our legacy tests represent benchmarks that were once at the height of their time. Some of these are industry standard synthetics, and we have data going back over 10 years. All of the data here has been rerun on Windows 10, and we plan to go back several generations of components to see how performance has evolved.
Benchmarking Performance: CPU Office Tests
Comparing Skylake-S and Skylake-X/SP Performance Clock-for-Clock
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Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
especially in the powerdraw and heat class it dominates even my oven....AntDX316 - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
The new processors are in totally another level/league/class. It dominates in everything and more except a couple benches. If you try to compare by price you can't. It would make no sense.Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
it makes sense.. for everyone except stupid fanboys.Hxx - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
so people are getting pissed because these CPUs perform well albet at a much higher price tag. Sounds like a bunch of AMD fanboys.Its new tech, highest performing, and serving a very niche market. Of course is at a premium price. why wouldn't it be? Luckily, these are not needed for the majority so I am not sure why people get so worked up about it. If you want intel then 7700k is a fantasic $300 CPU. If you want AMD then again the 1700 is also a fantastic CPU. end of story
Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
i personally don´t care about price... my PC´s earn the money back i spend.but saying we can´t compare price/performance form skylake-x and ryzen is just plain stupid.
of course we can.
and we can also compare price/performance when threadripper is released... the real competition to x299.
Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
by the way.. what about the RUMORS that coffee lake will be 6 cores... but no hyperthreading?that would be EXACVTLY what i expect from intel.
Intredpid3d - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
Why did you use Intel's compiler for your reviews? with all the other compilers out there that work beautifully with Ryzen why did you use the one that is known to be deliberately coded to work very badly on anything other than its creators products, Intel.?
johnp_ - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
Were did they use Intel's icc? The Chromium compile test was done using VS Community 2015.3.tamalero - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
Thats the interesting thing, in a lot of reviews online.. there are 3 variations of the same test.1) stock I9 7900
2) optimized compiler I9 7900
3) Oced I9 7900
the optimized one yields like 10% higher on average more performance.
johnp_ - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
2) is not possibly for a Chromium compile test, as that has a hard dependency on Visual Studio 2015 U3 and 3) first requires overclocking, for which they didn't have enough time yet.Regarding higher performance, I expect you mean compiled programs reaching higher performance and not the compilation process requiring less time (which is what anandtech measures here and that's the relevant bit for developers).