Quote Originally Posted by xlink View Post
multithreaded difference

12.5% more cores,
15% higher performance per clock


We're looking at a ~30% difference there assuming identical clocks. I suspect HT is a bit weaker than AMD's SMT but being a monolithic chip with a ringbus architecture will likely give the i9 an edge that nullifies HT being slightly weaker so that's a wash.


For lightly threaded applications it's clocked around 10% higher and has around 15-25% more performance per clock so it's in the order of 30-40% faster for single threaded applications as well.

Yes, it's priced 2x as high for a reason.
I don't expect the new Skylake-X can do the same clock as Threadripper 1998. Otherwise Intel would disclose those clock already.