what a huge load of biased non-sense! I have a machine pretty similar to the one mentioned in the article below, it is using Intel processors released ages ago, in fact they were from decommissioned servers from some random data centres. I'd willing to bet that machine with "the fastest chip in the world" is significantly slower/more expensive than mine when it comes to my long list of day to day development tasks.
Oh, don't forget to mention the fact that the "fastest chip in the world" can reach >100 degrees when fully loaded. Maybe Intel should pay some review sites to claim it to be the processor most suitable for cooking a meal.
In case you want to argue that my machine has two Xeon - you can actually order one single Xeon from newegg.com which is more recent, put it into a consumer motherboard and beat the xxx out of i9-7900x. There is no way a 10-core Intel processor could possibly be the "fastest chip in the world".
The 20+ core Xeons run at 2.1 or 2.2 Ghz, while this runs at 4, with a newer architecture. I don't think it's a big stretch to call this the fastest chip, especially since we're referring to consumer chips and not server chips that cost 9000 eurodollars (as is the case for those 20 core Xeons).
Also, have both of these setups run a mixed workload that isn't absolutely parallelizable and watch the Xeon struggle.
1. the Xeon I am using can Turbo to 3.1Ghz, sure, it is slower than 4G, but the sheer core count makes it much faster in the day to day development tasks many people face. consumer grade or not, it doesn't matter when there is no special requirements. you just buy components from your favourite vendors and put it together, that is all.
2. you can buy a pair of such 10-core Xeon for almost the same price of a single i9-7900x.
3. i9-7900x faces the exact same problem when the workload can not be paralleled - you can buy a much cheaper quad core intel processor that overclock well, you can push it to say 4.5 or 5G and beat the "fastest chip in the world".
I don't see how your 10core part boosting to 2.4 Ghz is "much faster in the day to day development tasks" given that it's 2 CPU architectures behind and clocks at almost half the 4.0 Ghz achieved by the 7900x (all-cores boost).
But even a pair of those 10 cores is probably slower (caches are not shared, all-core boost almost half while roughly 5% slower in IPC performance due to the jump from Broadwell to Skylake).
So I don't think you're actually trying to argue that this isn't the fastest chip yet, but that it's a bad deal compared to looking around and buying some used server parts.
And yes, that's a better deal, but also a used i9-7900x is a better deal than a new i9-7900x...
The link I provided contains detailed benchmark results of the mentioned system against 6950x. In quite a few workloads, e.g. SPECwpc, it is beating 6950x by up to 42%. See page 4. The maths is really simple here - i9-7900x need to beat i7-6950x by 40% to match that performance.
i9-7900x is _NOT_ the fastest chip in the world, not even the fastest intel chip. Consumer/server difference is purely a marketing thing, my Xeon based workstation running CS:GO on daily basis is not a server.
what a huge load of biased non-sense! I have a machine pretty similar to the one mentioned in the article below, it is using Intel processors released ages ago, in fact they were from decommissioned servers from some random data centres. I'd willing to bet that machine with "the fastest chip in the world" is significantly slower/more expensive than mine when it comes to my long list of day to day development tasks.
Oh, don't forget to mention the fact that the "fastest chip in the world" can reach >100 degrees when fully loaded. Maybe Intel should pay some review sites to claim it to be the processor most suitable for cooking a meal.
https://www.techspot.com/review/1218-affordable-40-thread-xe...
In case you want to argue that my machine has two Xeon - you can actually order one single Xeon from newegg.com which is more recent, put it into a consumer motherboard and beat the xxx out of i9-7900x. There is no way a 10-core Intel processor could possibly be the "fastest chip in the world".