If you ever looked at Intel and AMD's top of the line CPUs and thought they were wanting, perhaps the newly announced 28-core monster from Intel is what you need. Set to debut before the end of the year, it tacks on an extra 10-cores more than Intel's Core i9-7980XE, which is itself a $2,000 CPU, so don't expect this new chip to be cheap. It will, however, be insanely powerful.
Shown off for the first time this week alongside Intel's debut of its Anniversary Edition 8086 CPU, the new chip was pitched against an overclocked 7980XE in Cinebench testing to show off its capabilities and managed to pull off a score of 7,334 while running at 4GHz. Even when Intel's previous top chip was pushed up to 5GHz, it could only put out a score of 5,029 -- that's a near 50-percent improvement (thanks PCGamesN). At the top end, that's huge.
If you aren't looking at overclocking either, then it's close to 100 percent faster, which means that datacenters, server farms and anyone else looking to build monstrous rendering and number crunching platforms without pushing the chips beyond their recommended specifications, will see huge performance gains. It's not the fastest platform to ever try out the Cinebench benchmark, but it's certainly the fastest single chip we've ever seen.
At the time of writing we don't have any kind of release date or pricing information, but with Intel promising it before the end of the year, we'd expect it to debut sometime in the next few months as yields improve. Expect it to be very expensive though. At least $2,000 and probably a lot more than that.
Bear in mind too, that that probably means a new motherboard too.
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