INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
incoming Core i9-10980XE has appeared online.As highlighted by @momomo_us on Twitter, the Geekbench 4 result shows an 18-core (36-thread),
high-end desktop CPU which is presumably the i9-10980XE, with the spec and benchmark results roughly matching up with past leaked details
information in the Geekbench database reports a 2.46GHz base clock speed with Turbo to 3.93GHz.That looks much more peppy than the speeds we
witnessed in an alleged 18-core Cascade Lake-X benchmark in August, just a month ago, which was likely an earlier engineering sample (it had
a base clock of 2.19GHz with boost to 3.28GHz, which we noted looked pretty weak at the time).This fresh leak also shows that the purported
scrutinized the Geekbench report file and reports that the benchmarking utility registers the Core i9-10980XE with a minimum CPU frequency
of 4,108MHz (4.1GHz) and max frequency of 4,779MHz (nearly 4.8GHz).As we saw above, in terms of the actual Geekbench 4 results themselves,
while the single-core result is bang in line with what we saw with the previous leak for the alleged 18-core Cascade Lake-X chip, multi-core
speeds that the Core i9-10980XE looks set to run at (compared to what we saw in that previous 18-core leak).One question that remains is how
high those clock speeds might be set for the production chip, and how, in turn, that might push the thermal design power (TDP) threshold up
