i9 7900X benchmarks

so the first benchmarks for the 7900X are out...

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/107017-intel-core-i9-7900x-14nm-skylake-x/?page=3

Meh...

£1k and 100 degC lol..

Meh...

 

£1k and 100 degC lol..

1000USD... so £780...

100c at 1.3v, but they clocked it at 4.7ghz at 1.25v... it IS 10 cores...

maybe actually make use of a 360mm rad, rather than just for show...

also, like with ryzen, the motherboards bios has issues that are being ironed out...

A very positive thing is that while the new i9-7900X outperform the i7-6950X, it cost 700$ less at launch price...(maybe we should say thanks to AMD's Ryzen price policy?)

yeah, it's my next CPU, supposed to go on pre-order this week, will be a massively huge upgrade from my 2600K

couple more benchmarks

https://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2017/06/16/intel-core-i9-7900x-and-x299-chipset-revie/1

http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-7900x-review-cpu-gaming-oc-performance/

Have you already chosen the mobo for it?

Have you already chosen the mobo for it?

I think im going with the AORUS Gaming 9, I like the sound card, tho i really hate this new LED fad going on...

I`d never spent that much money for a desktop CPU LoL.

my limit always have been 500, Deutsch Marks, Dollars or Euro...

I`d never spent that much money for a desktop CPU LoL.

 

my limit always have been 500, Deutsch Marks, Dollars or Euro...

yeah but i've been saving up for years for a new computer, i've got a 3000$ budget, and I don't need to buy a new videocard because i already have a 1080ti...

considering how long my 2600K has lasted me, if that's any indication, buying a more expensive computer will hopefully again last me a couple more years than if I went for a lesser CPU...

like most people i know that bought a 2500K had already upgraded long ago, whereas most people are only upgrading from a 2600K since the 7700K came out...

I can see the idea behind it, yes, valid assumption.

It will be a nice machine, no doubt ! All those PCIe lanes are nice and quad pumped cant harm HAHA...you'll be in the 70GB/sec league then...NICE :)

so here's my planned build, different motherboard though, they didn't have the one i'm getting in the list...

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/M8cpkT

Think twice before you buy that CPU imho.

The power draw is WAY BEYOND good and bad, THP tested it throughly and they are..let's say...kindly disappointed.

Up to 364w power draw, forget AIR or any AIO if you intend to overclock, they used a compressor driven Eiszeit Chiller.

They say, in reality ( fearality I'd call it ) you will most likely not get it stable beyond 4.4GHz if ypu dont want to cook your CPU and your Board, currents in excess of 300 ampere!

300W+ ..up to 370w the CPU alone if you let it calculate shadow casting for a PV array ( common stuff for anyone who does Photovoltaik, 20 calcs in a loop ).

Prime without AVX forced an Emergency shutdown of the board.

This time, Intel, you screwed it all up with your BAD TIM.

You have to invest in some real proper cooling that can handle 300+Watts and definitely cool your VRMs and board in general if you plan to use this machine 5y+.

I'd go and get a 7700k or an AMD Ryzen, my honest feelings. This is nonsense and pure BS from Intel. Hell no, and this for ONE THOUSAND dollars ???????

http://www.tomshardware.de/performance-benchmarks-ubertaktung-leistungsaufnahme-kuhlung,testberichte-242365-10.html german only, sorry

Think twice before you buy that CPU imho.

 

The power draw is WAY BEYOND good and bad, THP tested it throughly and they are..let's say...kindly disappointed.

 

Up to 364w power draw, forget AIR or any AIO if you intend to overclock, they used a compressor driven Eiszeit Chiller.

 

They say, in reality ( fearality I'd call it ) you will most likely not get it stable beyond 4.4GHz if ypu dont want to cook your CPU and your Board, currents in excess of 300 ampere!

 

300W+ ..up to 370w the CPU alone if you let it calculate shadow casting for a PV array ( common stuff for anyone who does Photovoltaik, 20 calcs in a loop ).

 

Prime without AVX forced an Emergency shutdown of the board.

 

 

This time, Intel, you screwed it all up with your BAD TIM.

 

You have to invest in some real proper cooling that can handle 300+Watts and definitely cool your VRMs and board in general if you plan to use this machine 5y+.

 

 

I'd go and get a 7700k or an AMD Ryzen, my honest feelings. This is nonsense and pure BS from Intel. Hell no, and this for ONE THOUSAND dollars ???????

 

http://www.tomshardware.de/performance-benchmarks-ubertaktung-leistungsaufnahme-kuhlung,testberichte-242365-10.html german only, sorry

I think they were overvolting on their cpus... most of the benchmarks i've seen have it running at 4.6-4.8ghz at 1.25 volts, but these guys have it running at 1.4 volts, so its obvious why they're drawing so much heat...

any cpu running at that voltage will be hotter than hell...

Read this reviews:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-x299-gaming-pro-carbon-ac-review,1.html

and this:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/intel-core-i9-7900x-processor-review,1.html

Power consumption i9-7900x + gtx1080:

They used a 1200 Watt Platinum Certified Corsair AX1200i as power supply,

Really 750W is not suitable, considering you have a 1080ti, 850w + is safe

Read this reviews:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-x299-gaming-pro-carbon-ac-review,1.html

and this:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/intel-core-i9-7900x-processor-review,1.html

 

Power consumption i9-7900x + gtx1080:

 

They used a 1200 Watt Platinum Certified Corsair AX1200i as power supply,

Really 750W is not suitable, considering you have a 1080ti, 850w + is safe

Wot it's a room heater no good for where I live. :P

Results vary from board to board and Bios to Bios. "They" ( the reviewers ) say it's all about P-States.

Abide Intel's wish with P-States and you sacrifice Game Performance

Disobey them and have better Game Performance but efficiency lacks big time.

They all basically say: Wait !!...and check what TR will offer.

Those are the most kind words for a bad CPU I have read in years, like AMD used to be reviewed.

I would not recommend this CPU to anyone I know and care about. Maybe to BLUE on BF haha ;)

edit*: The game breaker is something else imho, latencies from 70-100ns is WAY OFF....LMAO. For VR this is desastrous I assume. 7700k latency is roughly 40ns.

Putting it all in 1 thought means:

Asus, MSI, Gigabyte will need to invest A LOT OF TIME to tweak the Bios's, maybe even more than they had to do for Ryzen. Then there will be even more half-ready CPU unleashed and things will likely not be better with those.

What does that mean ? Well, expect slow releases of fixes and drivers from any of those vendors as they have URGENT things to fix and anything that is not super urgent will likely have to wait...maybe for ever.

For the consumer this creates a dependency to promises that may never be fulfilled.

They all only have a limited number of developers that need to decide what to fix and what to leave AS-IT-IS as no one has the time to fix it.

That is my biggest fear for those platforms.

Immature CPU's and board/bios across the board...have fun waiting for fixes !

I think they were overvolting on their cpus... most of the benchmarks i've seen have it running at 4.6-4.8ghz at 1.25 volts, but these guys have it running at 1.4 volts, so its obvious why they're drawing so much heat...

any cpu running at that voltage will be hotter than hell...

can you link those tests with 1.25V and 4.8 torture-loop ?

I honestly think if that CPU would have been stable at 4.8G with less Volts they would have done that right away.

edit* the only review I've found that oc'ed the CPU to 4.8 was at guru3d.com with 1.30-1.35V. But they hit 90+°C and the picture they show only has like 30 seconds runtime in the graph. I assume they shut it down before it fried. Maybe their cooling was just not capable of 250-300w TDP. Whereas the before mentioned site did a 20-Loop stress test with a compressor cooler. Also CPUs differ as we all know. They could boot Win10 with 5.1G but BSOD shortly after when putting any load on it. This is abnormal. Threadripper in addition has ECC and 64-lanes, people who wanna build a true WS will mostly look for that. No ECC is a bad thing and more lanes is crucial in WS environmnet where you easily have more than 1 GPU and RoC plus plus plus. This is aybe a good CPU if you have too much money at hand, but people who look deeper I think will steer around Intel and go TR, unless there is a real show stopper in that CPU as well, but I doubt that from how R5 and R7 behave.

I considered getting Skylake-X once but the fact AMD can out core Intel for the same price tag and at the same time offer a cheap CPU upgrade path for the future was a no brainer decision to go Ryzen.

In my case it was all about mainstream platform but AMD should beat I9 series with threadripper as well (bad time to jump on the early I9 adopter bandwagon). Where single core score will probabbly be de same 5%-20% below Intel depending on applications the AMD side crushes intel with the sheer number of PCI-E lanes in its entire linup as opposed to the feature creep intel pushes on their customer base. Youll be able to negate the I9 performance advantage down the line with a cheap CPU upgrade.

AMD Epyc was launched yesterday and I really think that is more than a straw upward for AMD.

8-channel DDR4 and 128-PCIe_Lanes is a number you cant say NO to.

I have to build 2 HyperV/VMware Servers till December, planning already started..and you know what... I ruled out the Intel option right away and was waiting for those news: Dell & HP were up on stage with AMD as well... so it's time now to call my Dell rep again and ask him 2nd time how far their AMD servers are. Last time he had no info on that, now he surely has some more to say.

I only need 16 cores so an Epyc 7351 would be all I need. I am sure it's cheaper than Intel's comparable Xeon which has no 128 Lanes and misses 4 channels as well.

Intel seems to have landed right at that spot were AMD came from ! High TDP, less features but a big mouth. Lets wait what this will lead to.

1000USD... so £780...

 

100c at 1.3v, but they clocked it at 4.7ghz at 1.25v... it IS 10 cores...

 

maybe actually make use of a 360mm rad, rather than just for show...

 

also, like with ryzen, the motherboards bios has issues that are being ironed out...

Closer to £900 here unfortunately. Ill wait to see what TR has to offer. OC'd Alienware systems with it wil be released 27th July. I suspect the parts will be available to purchase before then.

just checking the reviews for the 7900X and:

those wanting multicore chips to play games should look elsewhere. It is equal or slower than broadwell-E (6900K) due to increased core communication latency (basically same as Ryzen) and that despite increased clock speeds. This results in same gaming experience as with Ryzen except with the later you can save alot of money and invest on a better graphics card.

WOW it seems Intel just cant stop shooting themselves on their collective feet lately.

My advice: wait for cofee lake or buy Ryzen right now.

Anyone who is buying an X299 rig just for gaming has more money than sense. As mentioned either grab a Ryzen 5 series or wait for Intel's Coffee Lake Z370 platform that hopefully will arrive in the next few months.

Will it impact on the Kaby Lake pricing ?