Question Intel Core i9-10980XE Can Hit Up To 5.1 GHz OC Across All Cores with "Standard Water Cooling"

[nicalandia]

Intel's Flagship HEDT Core i9-10980XE 'Cascade Lake X' CPU Can Hit Up To 5.1 GHz OC Across All Cores

Intel's upcoming Core i9 10980XE CPU is going to be their flagship HEDT part and the company has just recently slashed pricing to make it competitive to AMD. A report by PCGamesN reveals however that the flagship SKU, the Core i9 10980XE, can actually hit 5.1 GHz across all cores with a standard...

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Is that with the 1 HP Water Chiller that was used before?

Intel: We 'Forgot' to Mention 28-Core, 5-GHz CPU Demo Was Overclocked

We met with Intel and asked a few pointed questions about its now-infamous 28-core CPU demo.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Zucker2k]

If you're referring to the W3175, it's limited release with similarly limited interest. I think there's only one board that can handle that thing.



@scannall already answered correctly (mesh), but also keep in mind that Cascade Lake-X also has a different cache alignment that may not be favorable to consumer-level application performance (e.g. games). Even if you manage to overclock the mesh on Cascade Lake-X, you still have to deal with the weird cache. If you are looking to play games then the 9900k should be faster.

How did the conjecture become fact in just a matter of seconds of typing? And what is weird about the new cache alignment that is going to negatively impact desktop workloads/gaming? Care to share?

 

[DrMrLordX]

Care to share?

Seriously? This has been known since Skylake-X came out:

Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers for $1999

www.anandtech.com

How could you possibly not know that?

 

[Zucker2k]

Seriously? This has been known since Skylake-X came out:

Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers for $1999

www.anandtech.com

How could you possibly not know that?

What about the changes Intel made to the cache hierarchy of Cascade Lake X?

 

[jpiniero]

What about the changes Intel made to the cache hierarchy of Cascade Lake X?

Not aware of any cache hierarchy changes. Intel did up the stock mesh speed in Skylake-X Refresh which helps gaming performance quite a bit.

 

[Ajay]

If you're referring to the W3175, it's limited release with similarly limited interest. I think there's only one board that can handle that.

There is a whole line up of 'W' series CPU targeted towards professional users - hence it would primarily be in OEM systems (and not cheap).

 

[Ajay]

What about the changes Intel made to the cache hierarchy of Cascade Lake X?

They moved from an inclusive L3$ to a primarily exclusive L3$ with a small portion reserved for an inclusive policy - I don’t recall the policy details.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Cascade Lake-X shouldn't have any cache hierarchy changes from Skylake-X Refresh (so far as I know). Main thing is, Skylake-X and it's derivatives has less L3 than CoffeeLake which often translates into poorer game performance (even when mesh speed is OCed to compensate for its . . . shortcomings).