Specifications included in a leaked price list suggest that Intel’s 12-core i9-7920x has lost the megahertz war to AMD: the $800 12-core Ryzen Threadripper 1920X is clocked at 3.5GHz, while the $1189 i9-7920x only runs at 2.9GHz. Time will tell how these chips truly compare (i.e., how they hold), however.



Intel’s price list typically lists the base clock or minimum clock speeds a CPU will run at under the heaviest workloads. In this case, the Core i9-7920X appears to guarantee an all-core clock speed that is 500MHz lower than AMD’s published specs. AMD recently said it will launch its $1,000 16-core Ryzen Threadripper 1950X at 3.4GHz, and its $800 12-core Ryzen Threadripper 1920X at 3.5GHz. On paper that doesn’t look promising for Intel.

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