An unlocked 14-core Cascade Lake-X desktop processor with Hyper-Threading, four-channel DDR4 memory and 48 CPU PCIe lanes for LGA2066 enthusiast systems.
Bit-tech liked Premiere Pro performance and its sample’s overclocking gains, while noting high power use and stronger Ryzen value in other tasks. Puget’s Premiere Pro 2020 tests found faster live playback but slower overall performance than the 3950X. Both make it a workload-specific choice; their different editing tests do not support a universal performance lead.
Cascade Lake-X; Hyper-Threading and an unlocked multiplier, confirmed by Intel’s exact-model family product brief.
Clocks
Turbo Boost Max 3.0 up to 4.80 GHz on the preferred cores; ordinary Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 4.60 GHz. Intel targeted November 2019 availability, and Newegg records this exact SKU first listed on 25 November 2019. A listing date alone does not establish first actual sale; conservative year precision is retained.
Cache
19.25 MB Intel Smart Cache; Intel’s exact-model product-brief table identifies it as L3 cache.
Graphics and AI
Built-in graphics
No
Graphics
No processor graphics, explicitly confirmed by Intel’s exact-model support table.
AI engine
Intel Deep Learning Boost provides CPU inference instructions; this is not a separate NPU.
Platform
Socket
LGA2066
Base power
165 W
Unlocked
Yes
Cooler in the box
No
Memory support
Up to 256 GB; four channels of DDR4-2933; 94 GB/s maximum published bandwidth; no ECC.
PCIe
48 CPU lanes; PCIe 3.0. The 72-lane family platform figure includes chipset lanes.
Chipsets
Intel X299; LGA2066.
Process
14 nm; Cascade Lake-X.
Cooler
Intel explicitly excludes a fan and heatsink from the boxed product. Intel’s support article confirms solder thermal interface material for this exact model; published junction limit 86°C.
