Thanks, AMD: Intel’s New Cascade Lake-X Series CPUs Announced with Massive Price Cuts

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Intel has lifted the embargo for its latest stack of HEDT CPUs, Cascade Lake-X. Their level of performance is still up in the air, but one attractive feature will certainly be pricing: some of the Cascade Lake-X parts are nearly 50% cheaper than their last-generation Skylake-X brethren.

Enthusiasts can essentially get an 18-core Intel chip for around $1000 now (Core i9-10980XE 18C/36T). A few of the improvements that Cascade Lake-X introduces is support for 256 GB of quad-channel DDR4 2933 MHz memory (up from 2666 MHz), four additional PCIe 3.0 lanes (48 instead of 44), and 2.5 G ethernet and Wi-Fi 6 via new X299 motherboards.

The main point that needs to be hammered home with this release is that Intel's pricing has seen a dramatic shift with Cascade Lake-X. Now, 18-core offering costs less than their last-generation 10-core model, delivering 80% more cores for less money. Intel is offering a lot more value with X299 this generation, which is a huge step in the right direction from a consumer's standpoint.
 
And people wonder why I root for AMD and buy the products... Don't get it confused. I don't really care about AMD at an emotional level but I want AMD to continue succeeding so Nvidia has to become competitive in its pricing.
 
Intel had been offering top end CPU's at $1,000 for over a decade. In one generation it went to $1,599 with Broadwell-E. The previous Haswell-E CPU was $1,099. The very next generation increased again to $1,899 for the top end model. It is and always was price gouging because Intel could get away with it. With a new Threadripper on the horizon, Intel knows it can't keep doing that and expect people to buy their stuff.
 
Dan_D said:
Intel had been offering top end CPU's at $1,000 for over a decade. In one generation it went to $1,599 with Broadwell-E. The previous Haswell-E CPU was $1,099. The very next generation increased again to $1,899 for the top end model. It is and always was price gouging because Intel could get away with it. With a new Threadripper on the horizon, Intel knows it can't keep doing that and expect people to buy their stuff.
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They should have just taken the L. X299 is dead.
 
Amazing what happens when you no longer have a de-facto virtual monopoly in the marketplace
 
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