Testseek.com have collected 267 expert reviews of the Intel Core i9 7900X 3.3GHz Socket R4 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i9 7900X 3.3GHz Socket R4.
June 2017
(83%)
267 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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659 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Great Multi-threaded Performance
Very Reasonable Price
Far easier overclocking than Haswell and Broadwell
The i9-7900X is the most powerful consumer CPU money can buy
High clock speeds out of the box
Improved memory support
Modern complement of IO
Lots of PCIe lanes (with an i9-7900X at least)
Freak777power 14 hours ago
Pros
10/20 cost now $999
10 cores and 20 processing threads
For $700 less than last year's comparable chip
Single-threaded performance on par with Core i7-7700K
10 cores and 20 processing threads for $999
Speedy single-threaded performance
Strong Performance
Good Overclockers
Feature Packed Platform
Fastest Desktop Processors To Date
Great multi-core performance
Improved single-core performance
Best performing desktop processor to date
Easy to overclock
Current LGA2011v3 CPU coolers will work
X299 platform is great
Strong single-core performance
Beats Threadripper 1950X at multi-threaded media encoding
Monolithic quad-channel memory interface
Fewer things to configure
Plenty of aftermarket cooling solutions
SkylakeX topped our performance charts
Bringing a much better value over BroadwellE on the highend
The editors didn't like
The i9-7900X costs £900/$1000
AMD's Ryzen offers 75 percent of the performance for well under half the price
The quad-core i7-7740X makes no sense—buy a 7700K instead
Confusing product stack that limits platform features
Power hungry
Requires a £100
Freak777power 14 hours ago
Runs hot when overclocked
Similar gaming issues at 1080p as AMD Ryzen chips
New LGA 2066 socket requires a new (and expensive) motherboard
Still pricey compared to Ryzen 7
Relatively pricey
Requires new
Expensive motherboard
Not the fastest at Full HD gaming
Runs hot
Differing PCIe Lane Configurations May Cause Confusion
Pricing May Change When ThreadRipper Arrives
Staggered released
Still 4 Core i9 processors yet to come out
Prices could change with Ryzen ThreadRipper comes out
High price
High idle power draw
No ECC memory support
Fewer PCIe lanes than Threadripper
It's extremely power hungry and considerably more expensive than Ryzen equivalents
Published: 2017-06-19, Author: Steve , review by: gamersnexus.net
Abstract: Intel's past few weeks have seen the company enduring the ire of a large portion of the tech community, perhaps undeservedly in some instances -- certainly deservedly in others. We criticized the company for its initial marketing of the 7900X – but then...
Published: 2017-06-19, Author: Jeff , review by: Techreport.com
It's time once more to sum up our results using our famous scatter plots. To spit out this final index, we take the geometric mean of each chip's results in our real-world productivity tests, then plot that number against retail pricing gleaned from Newe...
Published: 2017-06-19, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
In some circles of the Internet, the Core i9 release and the parts that were announced last month from Intel seem as obvious a reaction to AMD's Ryzen processor and Threadripper as could be shown. In truth, it's hard to see the likes of the Core i9-7900X...
The year 2017 turns out to become the most exciting year for desktop processorssince maybe even a decade. AMD released Ryzen, Intel reacted. Then all of the sudden it became apparent that AMD had hidden a high-end desktop processor called Threadripper, an...
Published: 2017-06-19, Author: Paul , review by: tomshardware.com
freak777power 14 hours ago, Pros: 10/20 cost now $999
freak777power 14 hours ago
Intel's Skylake-X-based Core i9-7900X weighs in with 10 Hyper-Threaded cores and architectural enhancements that benefit many workstation-class workloads, such as rendering and content creation. The processor struggles in some games compared to its pr...
Published: 2017-06-19, Author: Dave , review by: hothardware.com
Strong Performance, Good Overclockers, Feature Packed Platform, Fastest Desktop Processors To Date
Differing PCIe Lane Configurations May Cause Confusion, Pricing May Change When ThreadRipper Arrives
The Intel Core i9-7900X is easily the most powerful desktop processor we have tested to date. Its combination of 10-cores, with relatively high clocks, and larger L2 cache propel it into the lead in all of the multi-threaded benchmarks. The Core i7-7900X'...
So now that we have run through the X299 and Core X features and taken a look at the performance of the i9-7900X and the i7-7740X, where does everything land. Well first off, let me say right out of the hole that you have to keep in mind that X299 and...
Published: 2017-06-19, Author: Ian , review by: anandtech.com
For Skylake-X, and by virtue the Skylake-SP core we will see in upcoming Skylake-SP Xeons, Intel decided to make a few changes this time around. The biggest microarchitecture change comes in three stages: the addition of an AVX-512 unit, the adjustment in...
So where did we end up with these CPUs? In a nutshell, the 7900K brought some minor IPC improvements in some areas in our our testing, while the 7740K is simply a faster 7700K on a more robust platform.Our testing, due to a not fully optimized AIDA64 test...
Abstract: I'm going to start this article off with a simple number: five. Not only is that the number of months it has taken AMD to effectively turn the x86 processor world on its ear, but that's also the number of distinct model families that they've introduced...
