



We’ve been talking up Intel ’s upcoming High-End Desktop ( HEDT ) processor family for the past few weeks. Each report has shed just abit more insight into Kaby Lake-X, Skylake-X and the X299 chipset that will support the processors. Today, we’re being presented with the motherlode of information on the six processors that Intel plans to announce later this month; four Skylake-X and two Kaby Lake-X processors.

The most potent of the bunch will be the Core i9-7920X (Skylake-X). That’s right, Intel is tossing the Core i7 branding aside to make way for a new tier of high-performance processors. The Core i9-7920X has 12 cores (24 threads) and 16.5MB of onboard L3 cache. It supports 44 PCIe lanes, but we unfortunately don’t have any word on clock speeds at this time.



Moving down the line, there’s the Core i9-7900X, which has 10 cores (20 threads), 13.75MB of L3 cache and 44 PCIe lanes. The processor has a base frequency of 3.3GHz, and can reach 4.3GHz with Turbo 2.0 and 4.5GHz with Turbo 3.0.

The Core i9-7820X and Core i9-7800X have eight cores and six cores respectively, and see their PCIe lanes cut down to just 28.





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On the Kaby Lake-X side of things, we have the Core i7-7740K with 4 cores (8 threads), 8MB of L3 cache, 4.3GHz base clock and Turbo 2.0 frequency of 4.5GHz. The runt of the litter is the new Core i7-7640K with 4 cores (4 threads) and just 6MB of L3 cache.

Other reportedly confirmed specs for these new parts include supports for dual-channel DDR4-2666 on Kaby Lake-X (quad-channel for Skylake-X), 112W TDP for Kaby Lake-X, 160W TDP for Skylake-X and AVX-512 support for all Core i9 SKUs.







We won’t have much longer before Intel officially outs these new processors, as the company is expected to reveal them on May 30th at Computex with availability coming some time in June.