Intel and AMD are about to clash with new high-end gaming CPUs

[PCGamer]

[url]http://www.pcgamer.com/intel-and-amd-are-about-to-clash-with-new-high-end-gaming-cpus[/url]

[BryBreadmin]

More like Intel is about to rebrand their high end i7s/Xeons to trick people into thinking they're still innovating

[Knight Vista]

These are very interesting days for the consumer cpu market

[Aide]

This looks like Intel is turning Xeons into I9. Look at the cache. When was the last time a non Xeon had that much cache. And so these are gonna be above i7-E parts or become the new ones then AMD is gonna beat them on price and cores/threads. The i7 6950X is like $1650. So you can expect these new parts to be above $1700 because that's where Intel currently puts the top of the line I7-E part.

I currently have [url=http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3665133]4690k[/url] and I'm looking into getting a R5 1600 or R7 1700 for plex encoding/gaming.

[BryBreadmin]

[QUOTE=Aide;52233189]This looks like Intel is turning Xeons into I9. Look at the cache. When was the last time a non Xeon had that much cache. And so these are gonna be above i7-E parts or become the new ones then AMD is gonna beat them on price and cores/threads. The i7 6950X is like $1650. So you can expect these new parts to be above $1700 because that's where Intel currently puts the top of the line I7-E part.

I currently have [url=http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3665133]4690k[/url] and I'm looking into getting a R5 1600 or R7 1700 for plex encoding/gaming.[/QUOTE]

R9 is basically the same idea, they're just releasing their Naples server CPUs with half the cores in the same socket.