The Core i9-7960X offers the best performance from a 16-core processor in both lightly-threaded and multi-threaded workloads. Expect to pay for the privilege of owning one, though. Moreover, thermal challenges dictate that expensive add-ons like custo...

So I think most people will admit that AMD has had a lot of wins this year with all of the Ryzen launches. As I found out in our 1700v7700K coverage the 7700K was still a great performing CPU, especially when looking at gaming performance. But with ju...

we know for a fact that the best consumer processor money can buy right now is Intel's Core i9-7980XE. Its 18 cores of brutality lay waste to most, if not all, multithreaded tasks you can throw its way. And single-core? Well, it's enough to make most of t...

In the 2000s, we had the frequency wars. Trying to pump all the MHz into a single core ended up mega-hurting one company in particular, until the push was made to multi-core and efficient systems. Now in the 2010s, we have the Core Wars. You need to have...

It's time once again to condense all of our test results into our famous value scatter plots. We use a geometric mean of all of our real-world results to ensure that no one test has an undue impact on the overall index. First up, let's look at gaming per...

As I said in my review of the Core i9-7980XE we are living in a very exciting time for CPUs. This processor is packing in 16-cores, 32-threads and it is not even at the top of the product stack! At its default clock speeds it is a work horse! It is going...

That Intel finds itself in a place where its flagship processors just barely scrape past the competition is an astonishing turn of events. It might well continue to offer the best gaming performance in the mainstream, where gaming continues to be the key...

Intel's 16-core Core i9 chip hews close to its pricier 18-core Core i9 Extreme Edition counterpart. It's a powerful chip, no denying, but AMD's competing Threadripper 1950X, at many hundreds of bucks less, is strong competition. Read More...

Intel Core i9-7980XE And Core i9-7960X Processors -- Find Them At AmazonWe can't wrap up this article without referencing AMD's impressive Threadripper processors. Whether it's publicly acknowledged or not, the stealthy nature of Threadripper's developmen...

The i9-7960X is extremely potent, but the price and power are tough pills to swallow...

But as I stated at the outset of this review, while performance per dollar is the king of metrics for consumers in the mainstream space, for HEDT and workstation users, sometimes expense is no object, within reason. For those types of buyers, the 18-core...

Intel. Strikes. Back. The massive 18-core Core i9-7980X and 16-core Core i8-7960X are the chipmaker's response to AMD's Ryzen Threadripper, which has been eating Intel's lunch for many months.But can Goliath Intel rise from its stunning defeat to challeng...

The results basically speak for themselves. If you would like to compare your own system(s) Linux performance against the results found in this article, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1709241-TY-INTELCORE86...

We had a blast testing these monster CPU's out. Every single benchmark we ran was just crushed, and every single chart we have had to be expanded by nearly double to accommodate the multi-threaded scores. We had a few testing programs not know quite what...

As usual we have quite a bit of data to sort through. Of course, it's not just about delivering the best performance and instead most people are interested in bang for their buck.First up we have Blender, this is a lower is better scenario which is why th...