Rumor: Broadwell-E processor Core i7-6950X gets ten cores

Intel will introduce four new Broadwell-E processors in March 2016, the most powerful model of which will have ten cores. That is what a Taiwanese technology site claims. The Core i7 6950X would run at 3GHz.

The Taiwanese site Xfastest, which often publishes Intel information early and correctly, shows specifications of the four Broadwell-E processors that should be released in March next year. These are the Core i7 6950X with ten cores and 25MB L3 cache, the Core i7 6900K with eight cores and 20MB cache and the Core i7 6850K and Core i7 6800K, both with six cores and 15MB L3 cache memory.

Rumor has it that the processors will work in combination with Intel’s existing LGA2011 v3 socket, something that has already been mentioned in previous rumors. It was already reported that Broadwell-E would be combined with Haswell-E’s X99 platform, but also that processors with six and eight cores would come. Whether the new rumor about a ‘decacore’ is true remains to be seen.

Broadwell-E is Intel’s upcoming high-end platform, for overclockers, among others. Compared to Haswell-E, the processors are produced at 14nm instead of 22nm and receive support for DDR4-2400 memory.

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