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The fight between Intel and Amd is as old as the cold war , but one clear winner was evident by the last decade.Amd , who has not given up the race revealed the Ryzen series which has created a storm over Intel's chipfactories for a few months now . The new 16 core Ryzen Threadripper and the regular Ryzen 5 and 7 series may have an edge in cost for performance , but now Intel has regained the upper hand once again with the Core X series i9 , i7 and i5 models . Set to join the Dreadnought wars , the Core i9 comes in 4 variants , The Core i9-7900X,i9-7920X,i9-7940X ,i9-7960X and the i9-7980XE basically differ in the core/thread count and thats all we know for now . The base version i9-7900X , features 10 cores with 20 threads (with Hyperthreading) while the 7920X features 12 cores/24 threads , 7940X with 14 cores /28 threads and the 7960X with 16 cores/32 threads and the 7980XE with 18 cores / 36 threads. The base version , clocked to 3.3GHz ( 4.3GHz Turbo Boost)  2.0 clock s...