Intel has officially unveiled its new Broadwell-E HEDT CPU lineup at its press conference during Computex 2016 show in Taiwan, and the flagship 10-core Core i7-6950X comes with a US $1,723 price tag.

We already heard that Intel might change the pricing scheme for its new 14nm Broadwell-E lineup and it appears that the rumors were true as the flagship 3.0GHz clocked 10-core Core i7-6950X CPU costs US $1,723, which is significantly higher than US $999, which Intel usually priced its flagship HEDT CPU.

We already wrote a lot about Intel's new Broadwell HEDT platform which uses LGA 2011-v3 socket and current Intel X99 chipset motherboards but in case you missed it earlier, it is worth noting that it comes with new Intel Turbo Boost Max technology, has up to 25MB of cache and up to 40 PCI-Express 3.0 lanes, quad-channel DDR4-2400 memory support and Intel Hyper-Threading support.

While the flagship Core i7-6950X is a 10-core CPU, Intel also prepared three other CPUs, with 8- and 6-cores, including 8-core 3.2GHZ clocked Core i7-6900K, 6-core 3.6GHz clocked Core i7-6850K and the 6-core 3.4GHz clocked Core i7-6800K.

All four CPUs have a 140W TDP, are fully unlocked for overclocking and support quad-channel DDR4-2400 memory. The difference lies in the amount of cache, number of PCIe lanes and, obviously clock and number of cores.

All four should be already available and, in addition to the 10-core Core i7-6950X, priced at US $1,723, the 8-core Intel Core i7-6900K is priced at US $1,089, the 6-core Core i7 6850K is priced at US $617 while the 6-core Core i7-6800K is priced at US $434.

There are plenty of reviews around and it is obvious that these bring impressive performance gains compared to the previously available Intel CPUs.









Source: Intel.com.