Asia based xfastest was able to get their hands on some new info regarding the enthusiast lineup of Broadwell, yes Broadwell-E. In their item they mention four new Broadwell-E processors, the flagship being the Core i7-6950X that would get 10 physical CPU Cores hyper-threaded towards 20 Threads!

Broadwell-E will be tied to the X99 chipset as the website mentions as these processors will be tied towards socket LGA2011-v3. That would be good news for X99 owners as only a BIOS update will be required to get the new processors supported.



Processor Cores/threads Clock frequency L3-cache Socket Intel Core i7-6950X 10/20 3GHz 25MB LGA2011-v3 Intel Core i7-6900K 8/16 3,3GHz 20MB LGA2011-v3 Intel Core i7-6850K 6/12 3,6GHz 15MB LGA2011-v3 Intel Core i7-6800K 6/12 3,4GHz 15MB LGA2011-v3

As stated, four models will be released, the i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7- 6800K. That Core i7-6950X thus is the flagship CPU. X is Extreme with totally unlocked multipliers and voltages, the K models are more or less the same with a slightly lower voltage ceiling. All models will get some Turbo (dynamic clock frequency) allowance as well. To date it is unknown when the new processors will be released.





