Testseek.com have collected 144 expert reviews of the Intel Core i9 7980XE 2.6GHz Socket 2066 and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i9 7980XE 2.6GHz Socket 2066.
October 2017
(81%)
144 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Intel has without a doubt reclaimed the ultimate desktop CPU performance crown, but this comes at a cost. At $2,000, Core i9-7980XE is hugely expensive and as you can see from our graphs, it's nowhere near twice as fast as either the Threadripper 1950X or...
36 threads, Incredibly fast at threaded applications, Solid video game performance, Much improved IMC that's capable of 4,000MHz
Eyewatering price, Limited use case and appeal for the vast majority of PC users, Significant power draw
you end up with a lot more CPU cache in total.So how does it perform then? Well, that's easy to answer: this CPU is incredibly fast in threaded applications. There simply isn't a CPU that comes close to what the Core i9 7980XE can do in such an environme...
