Let's talk a little bit about the Threadripper 3990X before we jump into the blue bar graphs. To be fair though, a 64-core, 128-thread processor capable of the performance we're about to show you for $4,000 isn't as absurd as it first sounds. With no competition from Intel in this space, AMD can get away with charging quite the premium. So technically if you want an 18-core Intel CPU you've got to pay around $2,000 for a 7980XE or 9980XE, whichever model you can find, so good luck with a 22-core part. In theory these days Intel's offering 18 cores for $1,000, though not really since the 10980XE doesn't exist in retail. You can't even buy their current 18-core model. Meanwhile Intel's rumored to be scrambling to release a 22-core HEDT part, but we seriously doubt they'll bother at this point. Today AMD is releasing a CPU with over 6 times more cores, though it costs almost 2.5 times more. The point we're trying to make is, a mere four years ago the best any high-end desktop platform had to offer was a $1,700 10-core processor that ran all cores at 3.4 GHz out of the box. Many would argue that the 10-core part is overpriced at $600 and we'd generally agree. Stiff competition from the first-gen Threadripper range saw the 10-core Core i7-7900X released at $1,000, then refreshed as the 9900X at $1,000, and refreshed once more as a $600 part in the 10900X. For that stunning price, Intel basically tacked on two extra cores from the previous two-year-old 5960X, and jacked up the price by 75%.īy the time they released their next 10-core part all bets were off as AMD had finally got their act together and had begun kicking goals with the Zen architecture. Avoiding the hideous $1,700 price tag made the product a whole lot more enjoyable. The special ocassion made us think of an Intel processor that we were quite fond of once, the Broadwell-E Core i7-6950X, which happened to be the first 10-core desktop CPU when it was released in 2016.įull disclosure: while we very much enjoyed the 6950X, we didn't actually pay for it. Today we're looking at the most expensive desktop CPU to ever exist, and shockingly it's not from Intel.
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