Intel Core i9 7980XE Linux Benchmarks: 18 Core / 36 Threads For $1999 USD
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 25 September 2017 at 03:19 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 42 Comments.
With John The Ripper's crypto workloads, the 7980XE comes out to be 6% faster than the 7960X.
TTSIOD is another workload that prefers the slightly higher clocks of the 7960X to the few more cores/threads of the 7980XE.
While the Assembly-written asmFish chess engine is said to be able to scale very well up to 128 threads.