By Darren Allan
In a freshly-released price list for some of its meaty Core X-Series processors, Intel has revealed some new tech spec info on the Core i9-7920X that’s expected to be available next month, including the base clock speed of this 12-core CPU which is pegged at 2.9GHz.
This has raised quite a number of eyebrows across the net, mainly because it’s surprisingly low – dipping under the 3GHz mark – when compared to both the 10-core 7900X (which runs at 3.3GHz base) and in particular the comparable rival Ryzen Threadripper 12-core model (1920X) which has a base clock of 3.5GHz.
In other words, these dueling dozen-core offerings have a large gulf of 600MHz between them in AMD’s favor, at least when it comes to the base clock.
Of course, what Intel hasn’t revealed in these pricing details is the Turbo speed of the 7920X. This could potentially be up there with its Ryzen rival which has a boost clock of 4GHz.
For example, if we look at the 7900X, as mentioned it has a base speed of 3.3GHz but Turbo to 4.3GHz (and a single-core boost even further to 4.5GHz). The 8-core 7820X is also capable of Turbo to 4.3GHz, from a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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