Hardware.Info posted Intel Core i9 7900X Skylake-X & Core i7 7740X Kaby Lake-X review: rushed release raises the bar

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Today, Intel introduces five new high-end desktop processors, called the Core X-series. All CPUs utilize a new socket (Socket 2066), and have to be used in conjunction with motherboards that have a new chipset (Intel X299). The new CPUs are divided into two families, Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X. The now available top model has 10 cores, but Intel already announced that we can expect models with up to 18 cores in the future. We tested the top model from both series: the 10-core i9 7900X and the quad-core Core i7 7740X.

If you followed the Computex news in the first week of June, the release of the new processors should not come as a surprise. Intel announced these during their press conference. Furthermore, Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X were already part of their release schedule; that Intel would announce that their new high-end chips have up to 10 cores is in line with expectations. The news was primarily in the moment of the announcement ? this introduction was only planned for two months later ? and mostly in the announcement of desktop CPUs with 12, 14, 16 and even 18 cores. We will have to wait a while yet for these models: Intel states that the models with the highest amount of cores will be available come October. Nevertheless it is difficult not to link this early and upscaled release to the successful introduction of AMD's new Ryzen-architecture and the corresponding processors.

 Intel Core i9 7900X Skylake-X & Core i7 7740X Kaby Lake-X review: rushed release raises the bar @ Hardware.info