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Intel’s Core i9 9980XE has strut its stuff in 3DMark Time Spy, showing moderate gains over its predecessor, the i9 7980XE. While built on the same 14nm process node and Skylake-X microarchitecture as the generation past, the refreshed CPUs, set to launch in November, will push clocks slightly further than previously thought possible on the HEDT platform. Intel has, yet again, managed to squeeze a little more out of its 14nm process since the Core i9 7980XE first graced PCs back in the dog days of summer ‘17. This has resulted in a 400MHz base clock bump between the i9 9980XE and i9 7980XE - 2.6GHz to 3GHz, respectively - and a 300MHz boost clock increase - from 4.2GHz to 4.5GHz. Aside from clock speeds and a return to solder, very little has changed between these two chips once you get down to the silicon level. Both are built upon the Skylake-X microarchitecture, feature 18 cores and 36 threads, come with 24.75MB of SmartCache on the die, support quad-channel DDR4-2666 memory, and will utilise the X299 motherboards fitted with the LGA 2066 socket.

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