Well damn this looks like it might be in the right spot for what I'm after. It'll depend on price-point to be exact but I've got a semi-server semi-gaming setup that I want to upgrade from an older i5 and have been waiting to see Naples and early adopter stuff get hammered out. 16 cores is a great spot for me to give a few to a gaming VM, while still being able to have plenty left over for running build/smoke VMs and other random projects like testing syzkaller to check that I'm not doing something inherently stupid with a sandbox I work on. Can't wait to see more about this.
For Intel's Xeon processors, the more cores you have the lower the frequency you get. Quad core might give you an extra gigahertz, which might be of more value to games than 12+ cores.
True for old games, but for them the single core performance is enough (except maybe supreme commander with 5'000 units on the field). Looking forward with DX12 and Vulcan more cores seems to be more future proof.
Plus shouldn't XFR (or Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 Frequency for Intel) somewhat alleviate that particular issue?
