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The 12 and 16-core rumors are coming from basically three different people at this point. There's AdoredTV who has been talking about this stuff for a long time, APISAK who found the 16-core CPU show up in a benchmark result and then RedGamingTech who is the source of the 12-core 5GHz rumor. The...
The single socket EPYC chips, especially the EPYC 7401P, are really reasonably priced compared to intel offerings. If you need loads of cores and don't need overclocking those would be a good choice.
Content creation, encoding, many simultaneous VMs, rendering, etc can make use of that many cores easily. There are plenty of non-professionals who do that stuff. Few will want to shell out $1000 for a CPU but for those who do it would certainly be worth it.
I have a Titan XP and I'm gonna order a 1080 Ti as soon as the 3rd party ones become available, I might try this out just for kicks even though I have no plans on running an SLI config for any extended period of time.
Personally I would wait for a custom cooler card unless you're gonna put the card on water, the stock blower is kind of loud if you're running it at max OC.
I'm pretty sure the "faster than the Titan X" is just referring to the fact that it has a higher base clock than the Titan X, if you overclock both cards I expect performance to be identical.
I'm gonna go with the 1800X, I'll probably wait until the initial BIOS issues and such are all ironed out first. It's a combination of throwing a bone to AMD for finally putting up some competition and the want of a true 8-core CPU without having to put down $1000.
This is an important point that hasn't been stressed enough, we've come to the point where each new node is significantly costlier than the previous one. FinFETs are more complicated to fab than planar FETs and as we go on to 10nm, 7nm, etc there will increasingly sophisticated and costly...