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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Flunk - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
I'm surprised by how well the $249 Ryzen 5 1600x holds on in those benchmarks. Seems like the processor to go for, for the majority of people. It should keep up in games for years to come. Yes, the top-end stuff is great and all, but it's a < 1% product.prisonerX - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
Value for money seems to take a back seat to bragging rights for some people. Makes them look silly I think, but they seem to think it makes them look good.asendra - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
?? In a professional setting, being 20-30% or whatever faster is well worth the 500-1000$ extra. Sure, it may only make that render 5/10min faster, But those gains sure add up over the course of a year.Gaining tens of hours of productivity over the course of a year sure is worth the extra $.
Sarah Terra - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
So does the power bill. you'll note the "superior" intel profs have a much higher thermal rating.ScottSoapbox - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
People spending $999 on a CPU alone aren't worried about an extra few dollars on their power bill.Lolimaster - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
The thing AMD's Threadripper offers much more power for the same price or probably less, intel is not an option for workstation :DTimoo - Saturday, July 1, 2017 - link
ThreadRipper is not available yet, so it's not an option. Yes, Intel rushed the X299 platform to beat AMD. Which makes it a "bad bet", to my opinion. But we simply cannot compare it to TR, as of yet. Intel in a workstation is very much an option. Just not one I would take :-)Integr8d - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
People $999 on a CPU to fill 1,000s of blades in a datacenter are definitely worried about a few dollars on their power bill...jospoortvliet - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
Sure but this CPU is for work stations not blades. Epic and Xeon compete in that market..melgross - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
Well, since one might expect to make at least tens of thousand on a single machine in a quarter, or more likely, a month, for a real business, considering depreciation, the extra costs are well worth it. In fact, they're negligible.