so as every tech youtuber would say Tech tober has officially begun which means
we're about to drown under a bunch of new products actually I'm preparing my
body to embrace those launches because man the next few weeks it's gonna be
it's gonna be pretty hectic to be honest but let's keeping soft with a bunch of
news from Intel which actually doesn't have anything to do with notebooks or
ultrabooks so that's good news right so which means
we're finally going to talk about desktop processors
all right so honestly guys I've been pretty critical about Intel's ice Lake
and comment Lake strategy for notebooks and ultrabooks in fact if you're
interested in learning more about that mess you can check it out right over
here or I'll leave links to two videos that I had to make for both ice Lake and
comment Lake in the description down below if you're interested in learning
more about their mess I'm just gonna leave it right there but today we're
gonna be talking about the nude cascade Lake xep use their specs and their lower
prices and in fact it's gonna be a little bit of a different video because
it's an interesting move from Intel but also I have mixed feelings about it so
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learn more in the description down below ok so let's dive right into this and
explain what cascade Lake X actually is these processors are meant to replace
the 9000 X and X a series but they aren't completely new either
you see they're so based off an updated 40 nanometers to collect architecture
have the same number of threads but higher clock speeds and they use more
PCI lanes they still use the X 299 motherboards but most importantly
they're gonna cost a lot less money doesn't that sound weird I mean Intel
less money Intel less money it's not more of an AMD thing yeah but really
that's the basic stuff but come on Intel it's time for a new desktop platform
already X299 has been around forever and while sure does offer a ton of
pension options but this whole thing was starting to show its age more than a
year ago now we're starting to see again and I just think it's ridiculous let's
tackle the lower prices too because what we're actually seeing is a return of
intel's high-end desktop pricing from the haswell-e days before and went crazy
over the last few generations plus let's be honest if Intel or even AMD could
sell their high-end CPUs for 2 grand they do it until didn't want to lower
their prices no company would ever think of doing that but what really happened
here is better competition from AMD forced them to do this since Intel isn't
able to increase core counts on 40 nanometer some key cascade Lake X
processors will soon be competing against T $750 16 core horizon 3950 X
sure it's been delayed until the member but that's when these new Intel CPUs
will hit shelves - and we can't forget that before its price went through the
roof due to demand the $500 3900 X gave Dean onion 20x a pretty good run for its
money even though it costs less than half as much so what did Intel do well
let's actually take a look at their high-end desktop CPUs for a start the
first Calicut sponsor was launched back in 2017 and it was priced at $2,000 but
remember this was back at a time before Intel had competition in the high-end
desktop space then last year b9 and ATX II was launched for the same price
featuring the same number of threads and this caused an issue for Intel a major
issue in fact because it almost felt like they were ignoring the competition
because AMD was coming out with threader / CPUs and with the new Rison processors
and thread two or three on the way things needed to change which is why we
now have the core I nine ten ninety ten nine eight zero or ten thousand nine
hundred eighty s see I don't want I don't know what you want to call it but
this is what we have the new cascade leg X processor it now features a safe
number of threads but what's interesting is that it's now priced at 980 dollars
now let's be honest here for a sec 980 dollars is still a lot of money but
what's really interesting is that the rest of the lineup are getting some
major cuts too you see Intel really wants to avoid these ten
one $50 Rison 939 50x i talked about since there's no 16 core replacement for
the 96 TX instead there is the 18 core 1098 exc for $980 and the 14 core 10 940
acts for $785 it'll be interesting to see how these compete on a price to
performance level with the rice and chip but the 10 940 X is sure a heck of a lot
less than the $1400 99 40 X was it also looks like the 24th red at 10 9 20 X
might be in for a huge fight since the AMD 3900 X is technically $190 less and
even the threader / 229 20 X can be found for less than $500 if you look
really hard enough of course core counts are only a small part of the performance
story but the Zen architecture is really competitive
the last CPU here is the 10 900 X and it's supposed to be a bridge product
between Intel's mainstream platform and the high-end desktop CPUs it doesn't
really compete with anything in Amy's current lineup either
what's pretty obvious is the $519 price tag which was chosen very carefully so
it wouldn't put pressure on the core I nine ninety-nine hundred K I should also
talk about the 72 PCI lanes that you saw in the last chart that's a bit of a
change since Intel's now using the same layout from their Xeon CPUs so instead
of having 44 lanes from the processor cascade Lake X will now have 48 direct
PCI gen3 lanes and those will primarily be used for GPUs other adding cards and
the motherboards m2 storage or primary storage options and the other 24 lanes
will be coming directly from the x2 99 chipset the other change comes with
clock speeds I'm not going to go into the full details but let's just say that
the base frequencies remain the same as the 9000 series while the max turbo rate
gets a 300 megahertz boost across the board when it comes to performance gains
there really isn't all that much here even for professionals but what did you
expect from the third revision of an old architecture in the first place
I mean cascade Lake X will only offer about 7% more rendering performance than
the 9000 series at the most until then add support for their new
deep learning boost algorithms so that's one area which gets a
huge speed increase honestly cascade Lake axe seems to be proof that intel
has pushed 40 nanometer as far as possible one thing we noticed is a big
change away from marketing this platform to gamers because a lot has changed in
the last few years you see both AMD and NVIDIA have pivoted
their gaming GPUs away from dual and triple GPU support so ecosystems like Z
390 and X 570 are usually a better choice for gamers these days that being
said while X 299 is still a pretty terrible fit for gamers it still has a
lot of potential for content creators professionals architects people or folks
who rely on those extra thread counts lots of memory bandwidth and of course
expansion options which is why intel has cascade Lake X and AMD with render per
and that pretty much covers everything there is at least until when these
processors finally get released sometime later in October but I do want to add
some of my own thoughts to you see first things very obvious competition is a
great thing guys and we have to give huge processor AMD
for putting the pressure on Intel so that we could get these lower prices but
that can only get Intel so far because there's some very serious concerns here
- their flagship desktop lineup is using an old platform and an even older core
it's a power-hungry architecture and that's a problem in a market that's
becoming almost as concerned about efficiency as there are about rendering
times cascade Lake X looks like another dead end - and that's because it's a
refresh of a refresh which makes me wonder Intel could have just lowered the
prices on existing 9000 series processors and then focus on next-gen
architecture but I guess for existing X - 9 end users this could be good news
because it's simply a drop-in upgrade but then again it's it's it's pretty
impossible to recommend someone to go out and buy a brand new cascade Lake X
system right now so that's pretty much it guys that's for me no ranting or
raging in this video in fact I really wished if Intel did this a long time ago
but I want to know your thoughts about this do you think it's too late in fact
are the new prices kind of like are they attractive for you to make the switch
over to cascade Lakes for gamers obviously not because it's a pretty
terrible choice extra looks outdated I know I'm I have mixed
feelings but I really wanted our thoughts about this in the comments I'm
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