Review of the Intel Core i9-7900X, good performance but at a very high price

We can already the first leak of a Skylake X CPU, in this case the review of the Intel Core i9-7900X, a processor of 10 physical cores with 20 threads of processing that will arrive at a Base / Turbo frequency of 4.00 / 4.50 GHz flavored of 13 , 75 MB of shared level 3 cache, while each core has access to 1 MB of L2 cache (of a total of 10 MB) with a TDP of 140W.

The negative point, its price, since it goes on sale at a price of 999 dollars + taxes, about 1,099-1,199 euros when it arrives in Europe. While its performance is good, it does not compensate the amount paid, since you have to add an expensive Intel X299 motherboard, next to a Quad Channel memory configuration at a time when the DDR4 RAM has a price for the clouds. For professional use, it throws 573 points on the Ryzen 7 1800X in the Cibenech, that translates to being a 35% more powerful paying an additional 670 euros and without taking into account the cost of the platform.

479/5000
A strong point of the Core i9-7900X is its overclocking, reaching 4.70 GHz with a base voltage of 1.25v (4.80 GHz per water), it is not necessary to increase the voltage that already consumes enough serial. In short, it offers very good performance with a very good overclocking potential, but all at an illogical price added to that there are still no games or applications that take advantage of the 10 cores.

In the gaming segment, as in 3DMark Fire Strike and Time Spy comes to perform like the Ryzen 7 1800X, in VRMark (for virtual reality) a Core i7-7700K is almost 12 percent faster. In the Deus Ex- Mankind Divided renders as a Ryzen 5 1500X, while in a Total War: Warhammer, it is 15 FPS slower than the Core i7-7700K, demonstrating how speed is key and not the number of cores.

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