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 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | |
| Core i9-7960X | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | |
| Core i9-7940X | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | |
| Core i9-7920X | TBD | TBD | TBD | August | |||
| Core i9-7900X | June | ||||||
| Core i9-7820X | June | ||||||
| Core i9-7800X | – | June | |||||
| Core i7-7740X | – | June | |||||
| Core i5-7640X | – | June | |||||
Speaking of the Core-X series, it seems Intel has also new boxes for i5, i7 and i9 series for the new socket:
