While Intel confirmed their flagship Core i7-6950X processor on their own webpage last week, ASRock has confirmed the rest of the processors which will be part of the Broadwell-E family. Based on the 14nm node developed for the Broadwell architecture, the Broadwell-E lineup will make its way to the market in Q2 ’16 (Computex) along with new entries in the X99 boards from AIBs like ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and others.
“The most unmissable part of Intel Broadwell-E is the flagship Core i7-6950X, which will be the first deca-core processor for the commercial market,”ASRock said in a press release on its website. And yeah, there’s more. ASRock went on to confirm the rest of the line up too.
“While this new CPU boasts a compelling 10-cores-and-20-threads architecture, users require a BIOS update for their motherboards to handle it; this update applies to the rest of the Broadwell-E gang, including i7-6900K, i7-6850K, and i7-6800K as well,”the press release says. ASRock didn’t spell out the specs of the others but they’re expected to be: eight-core, six-core, and six-core, respectively.
More Leaks on the Subject
Besides Intel’s own accidentally (on purpose?) slip, which confirmed that the Core i7-6950X would hit speeds of up to 3.5GHz and have 25MB of cache, MSI “leaked” news, too.
Earlier this month, MSI said its X99 motherboards were ready for Broadwell-E. MSI’s press release, however, was far more coy and used screenshots and performance numbers from a Xeon chip instead. Gigabyte also quietly added “Support 2016 Q2 coming new CPU” in a BIOS update pushed out in January.
So obviously, this has been the worst-kept secret. The only real unknown is how much Intel will charge for the CPU. When the chip first popped up on the leak radar, many people assumed the price would be $1,000.
Intel has basically charged a grand for its top-end processor since the days of the first quad-core “Bloomfield” Core i7-965 Extreme Edition. That price held when Intel added two more cores to the Core i7-990X. Several generations later, when Intel “gave” consumers two more cores still, for a total of eight in the Core i7-5960X, the price remained $1,000.
With the 10-core Core i7-6950X though, there are indications Intel may ramp up the price to $1,500. Again, Intel has never confirmed nor talked about the CPU on the record, but rumors of the higher price have been hot and heavy since January.
That has consumers balking. But Intel may have good reason for the increase. Intel’s top-end Core i7 chips have always just been repurposed Xeon chips with a few features turned off. Intel makes serious bank off of Xeons and doesn’t want to cannibalize those sales. If the 10-core Xeon is coming in at a higher price, that could funnel down to the i7-6950X
The Complete Intel Broadwell-E Family
The Complete list of all the Enthusiast Level processors of the Intel's new Broadwell line-up i.e. Broadwell-E family are the new Intel Core i7 6950X, 6900X, 6850K, 6800K with their specification being :
Author : Anushk Keshri Rastogi
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