Part of Broadwell-E’s appeal is the fact that the chip is a drop-in replacement for its Haswell-based predecessors.
This refresh bumped the top-end X-series part to ten cores-each now sporting Intel’s Broadwell microarchitecture-all while fitting into the same LGA2011-v3 socket that we welcomed with Haswell-E. Broadwell-E is here, giving Intel’s high-end desktop platform an impressive shot in the arm.
