Most important news of the intel skylake platform

The Intel Core i9 processors are based on an Intel Skylake-X microarchitecture that is not new but has received some improvements to improve its capabilities and make the new chips even better.

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Most important news of the Intel Skylake-X platform Intel Core i9

In this article we explain the most important innovations of the Core i9 at the architecture level. And there are some details that if you have not read our review, you surely do not know.

Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0

The first news is the Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology, it really existed in Broadwell-E but it has received one more twist to make it even better. What this technology does is detect the two best processor cores to be used in the case of applications that do not make use of all the cores. Silicon chips are never perfect so not all cores are exactly the same, by detecting the best two you can achieve higher operating frequencies than would be achieved with the other cores, frequencies that even exceed the turbo speed of the processor.

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In essence we can say that it is an automatic overclocking mode that comes standard with the processor and that works without the user having to do anything, of course the parameters are very controlled and it is a totally safe process so there is nothing to worry about.

New AVX512 instruction

We continue with the news of the Intel Core i9 processors and we find the new instruction AVX512. The instructions are part of the microarchitecture of the processor and are the source of its performance, therefore both Intel and AMD increase the number of instructions supported for each new generation of processors to improve their capabilities.

Skylake-X introduces the new AVX512 instruction which is especially useful for vectorization. This new instruction is very powerful in compression tasks although it needs developers to make use of the new compiler developed by Intel so that it can be used.

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Intel Speed ​​Shift

Intel Speed ​​Shift is an enhancement that aims to increase the speed at which processors wake up from their idle states, meaning that it makes you ready for the most demanding tasks sooner. A shorter reaction time means an increase in the final performance of the processor.

As we see the new Intel X299 platform arrives with interesting news, something vital more than ever now that AMD is doing a great competition with its processors based on the Zen architecture.