Benchmarks show Intel dropping hyperthreading in new Core i7

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Benchmarks show Intel dropping hyperthreading in new Core i7

Benchmarks for what appear to be Intel’s ninth-generation Core i7 processors have been found in the SiSoft Sandra database, Ars Technica reported.

The CPU is listed as a Core i7-9700K with eight cores. While this represents an increase from the six cores in eight-generation processors, the benchmarks suggest the new i7 will not feature hyperthreading.

 

[Quicks]

Intel is going backwards the last couple of years, no IPC gains only clock increases and now try and limit a high end processor. Will give AMD a go.

 

[Bryn]

Intel is going backwards the last couple of years, no IPC gains only clock increases and now try and limit a high end processor. Will give AMD a go.

They come across as a s**tty company in general. Also buying AMD when I upgrade later this year.

 

[Polymathic]

They come across as a s**tty company in general. Also buying AMD when I upgrade later this year.

Pity Adobe as poor optimization on AMD CPUs otherwise I'd switch

 

[Bryn]

Pity Adobe as poor optimization on AMD CPUs otherwise I'd switch

I've long since switched to Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, so I don't need Adobe's overpriced software anymore. I feel for those who can't switch though.

 

[Sapphiron]

There Intel goes again, artificially segmenting their CPUs by arbitrarily switching working things off.

Intel here is an idea for naming and segmenting your products in a way that makes sense.

Celeron/Pentium = 2 cores without HT

Core i2 = 2 cores with HT
Core i4 = 4 cores with HT
Core i6 = 6 cores with HT
Core i8 = 8 cores with HT

For the workstation socket use the Xeon-W name

Xeon W10 = 10 Cores
Xeon W18 = 18 Cores

For servers use standard Xeon (no bronze, silver, 5000 series not quite gold and 6000 gold crap)
Xeon 2P4C = up to 2 sockets, 4 Cores
Xeon 2P28C = up to 2 sockets, 28 Cores

Xeon 4P28C = up to 4 sockets, 28 Cores

and AVX-512 should be enabled on all Xeon CPU's

 

[cguy]

On the desktop, hyper threading probably makes less sense with more physical cores. The latency advantage is harder to realize (can still run many high priority/latency sensitive threads), as is the throughput advantage (if all cores are fired up, the workload is likely homogenous and less likely to benefit for hyper threading).

So I doubt this will hurt desktop consumers much, but it will make it less efficient to use these CPUs for server purposes, which is probably their intent.

 

[Johnatan56]

Pity Adobe as poor optimization on AMD CPUs otherwise I'd switch

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3310-adobe-premiere-benchmarks-rendering-8700k-gpu-vs-ryzen
tbh, it's fine.
2700X is R5999 at wootware, same as the 8700K.

New threadripper gen is also coming out now, which will be the proper i9 competitors.
Current 1900X is 8300, 7900X is 15 699 for a 15% performance difference, so 1950X is the actual competitor here and the price is 16 299 with the 1950X having better multi-core speed so Adobe should render better (looking at user benchmark, not adobe scores, that's why should, though gamersnexus has it within 10% of to the 7980XE which is priced at R32 424).

 

[Rouxenator]

They are so getting F'd in the A. This is good, I've been waiting 17 years to see this again.