Rumor: Geekbench entry hints at 16-core Core i9-7960X performance
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Competition between AMD's hotly-anticipated Ryzen Threadripper and the high-thread-count chips in Intel's Core X family is sure to be the hot topic of late summer 2017. Intel is playing its cards pretty close to the vest and has yet to disclose the clock speeds and cache structures of most of its Core i9 lineup. A recent entry in the Geekbench database may provide some insight into that information as well as an early (and very rough) comparison to AMD's 16-core, 32-thread silicon. Track down your wintertime supply of calcium chloride, because it's rumor time.
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