The AVX-512 story is just insane.<p>I can't even begin to imagine the kind of corporate dysfunction that leads to, first, at long last introducing the biggest change in the instruction set since the Haswell era into the consumer CPU line, slowly getting some actual adoption on that, and then suddenly dropping it altogether (for rather dubious reasons), but actually not really, so random motherboard vendors get to re-enable it behind your back.<p>This is crazy, both in terms of CPU design and just basic communication. Personally, I'll be waiting out this generation until I see AMD's response. Taking AVX-512 seriously is even harder than it already was.
Linus tech tips also showed this CPU almost can't be cooled. Even with the best air cooler that is better then some water cooling setups it hit 90+ degrees. This doesn't spell well for the mobile CPUs of this gen. Intel is already greatly exceeding thermal envelope on mobile CPUs for a few gens.
Is the i7 dead at this point? Ars' review focused mostly on the i5 and i9, and both of them showed good progress. Is there a reason to go for an i7 now? If I want power, I just go straight for an i9 or AMD, and if I want something more budget, the I go for i5. Does the slight performance increase between the i5 and i7 make it much more of an option?
It's a pretty insane processor. Eg the Geekbench Multicore score of 18241 is faster than even the 16 Core 5950x. <a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks</a>