Exclusive: Intel to launch 18-core Core i9-7980XE CPU

Published: May 29th 2017, 07:02 GMT Comments

INTEL HEDT (Skylake)

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AMD’s Threadripper will face more powerful competition that we first thought. A 18-core processor called Core i9-7980XE will be Intel’s flagship model of Core-X series.

Please note that the following chart contains information from multiple sources:

UNCONFIRMED Intel Core-X Series Specifications
Processor	Cores/ Threads	L3 Cache	PCIe Lanes	Base Clock	Turbo Clock 2.0	Turbo Clock 3.0	Launch
Core i9-7980XE	18C/36T	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Core i9-7960X	16C/32T	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Core i9-7940X	14C/28T	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Core i9-7920X	12C/24T	16.5 MB	44	TBD	TBD	TBD	August
Core i9-7900X	10C/20T	13.75 MB	44	3.3 GHz	4.3 GHz	4.5 GHz	June
Core i9-7820X	8C/16T	11 MB	28	3.6 GHz	4.3 GHz	4.5 GHz	June
Core i9-7800X	6C/12T	8.25 MB	28	3.5 GHz	4.0 GHz	–	June
Core i7-7740X	4C/8T	8 MB	16	4.3 GHz	4.5 GHz	–	June
Core i5-7640X	4C/4T	6 MB	16	4.0 GHz	4.2 GHz	–	June

Speaking of the Core-X series, it seems Intel has also new boxes for i5, i7 and i9 series for the new socket:

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