Only the true techies will love this news and that’s fine.
Today, at Computex Taipei 2016, Intel unveiled its new 10-core desktop processor – the Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition.
Just like the name implies (10-core), this new processor is a superfast chip which the company says was designed for Mega-taskers, a term coined by Intel, meaning heavy power users like VR fans, overclockers and content creators.
The Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition clocks in at 3GHz and can run 20 simultaneous work threads while at the same time reaching a turbo boost speed of 3.5GHz. It also has 25MB of Smart Cache, a 4-channel memory support and comes fully unlocked so overclockers (techies who reset some computer components so their computer works faster than the speed specified by the manufacturer) would have room to be creative.
In a bid to differentiate between multi-tasking and Intel’s new term – mega-tasking, Frank Soqui, GM of Intel’s Enthusiast Desktop Group said, “Multi-tasking is basically the ability to switch between unrelated applications,” You might be doing a Powerpoint and then switch to the web or run a movie, but none of those things are actually related to each other. When we talk about mega-tasking we’re talking about simultaneously, compute intensive, multi-threaded workloads that are aligned in a purpose.”
Aside from its ability to do heafty computations quickly, Intel’s 10-core processor will cost a heafty $1,723. But if you’re heavy users or mega-tasker who can’t part with $1,723 to get the Core i7-6950X, you may be happy to know that it also comes in an 8-core version (sold for $1,089) and a 6-core version (sold for $617). And since these smaller versions are also fully unlocked, a true techie can tweak them to work even faster than they were designed to.