Enlarge / Intel's Core i7-6950X, its first 10-core consumer desktop CPU. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Many desktop users are going to be just fine with Intel’s standard desktop Core i5 and i7 CPUs. The company offers a wide range of quad-core chips with different levels of performance and power consumption, and there are tons of motherboards in all different shapes and sizes that offer different features for different prices. The Skylake-based Core i7-6700K is Intel’s standard desktop flagship, and for many people it offers more than enough speed.
People who need more performance (and have more cash) can look to Intel’s “enthusiast” lineup, a crop of Core i7-branded CPUs that actually have more in common with the company’s server processors than the rest of its desktop and laptop chips. Intel is refreshing that lineup today with four new CPUs based on the Broadwell-E architecture, which replaces the current Haswell-E CPUs but uses the same socket, motherboards, and chipsets.
The main thing these CPUs offer over the normal Skylake desktop parts is more cores: there are new 6- and 8-core CPUs to replace the analogous Haswell-E chips, and it’s offering an all-new, ludicrously expensive 10-core Extreme Edition CPU as well. And as is often the case, these chips showcase some technology that will eventually trickle down to the more economical processors that most people actually buy. Let’s take a look.
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