Thursday, August 17th 2017
Intel Core "Coffee Lake" Lineup Specs Confirmed in Leaked Distributor Event
Intel recently concluded an event intended for local distributors in China, a key presentation slide of which was snapped and posted online. The slide confirms the company's product-stack for the mainstream desktop platform, and its augmentation with the first wave of 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" SKUs. The slide also confirms that Intel will be replacing current Core i7 4-core/8-thread SKUs with Core i7 6-core/12-thread ones; Core i5 4-core/4-thread SKUs with 6-core/6-thread ones, and Core i3 2-core/4-thread SKUs with 4-core/4-thread ones, marking the biggest fundamental update to the product stack since the Core MSDT family started out a decade ago, with the Core "Lynnfield" and "Clarkdale" processors.
The slide further describes per-core performance increases ranging between 11-29 percent owing to higher clock-speeds and a slightly newer micro-architecture, and 51-65 percent increases in multi-threaded performance owing to the increasing core-counts across the board. While these SKUs are expected to logically replace the various Core "Kaby Lake" SKUs from their current price-points, there could be a tiny price increase, across the board, which Intel could justify using the higher core-counts.
The 8th generation Core lineup will be led by the Core i7-8700K, featuring 6 cores, 12 threads enabled with HyperThreading, 12 MB of shared L3 cache, and an unlocked multiplier. PC enthusiasts should also look out for the Core i5-8600K, which is a 6-core/6-thread part with 9 MB of L3 cache, and an unlocked multiplier. There will be a third overclocker-friendly SKU, the 4-core/4-thread Core i3-8350K, which could be launched either towards the end of 2017, or early-2018.
Source:
ChipHell Forums
The slide further describes per-core performance increases ranging between 11-29 percent owing to higher clock-speeds and a slightly newer micro-architecture, and 51-65 percent increases in multi-threaded performance owing to the increasing core-counts across the board. While these SKUs are expected to logically replace the various Core "Kaby Lake" SKUs from their current price-points, there could be a tiny price increase, across the board, which Intel could justify using the higher core-counts.
63 Comments on Intel Core "Coffee Lake" Lineup Specs Confirmed in Leaked Distributor Event
Nope, it's the same SkyLake uArch. The iGPU will be slightly better though.
However, the L3 gap between i5s and i7s is just silly now, sure it has always been 1~2MB, but now seems like they really wanted to set a difference, not too much otherwise it would fall onto i3 territory...and all this just because people still find single-core performance highly relevant... :rolleyes:
EDIT:And you can continue to run AMD because Ryzen is 95/65W too and just run Windows default power profiles, with C6 states on, even the R7s use very little electricity...
Games and other applications have been getting very starved for CPU power.
I ain't rendering and such, hell, excel will sometime downright rape an I5 quadcore which I see often in the business where they do some hilarious spreadsheets and requesting xeon based workstations.
Yes the modern world requires more!
And I thank AMD for bringing down the pricepoint.
I manage a 3970K (besides other i7s) for this kind of thing...and its unbelievable how frequently it fully taxes (pun) all cores.
Why they can't just stick to their current lineup and naming scheme and release new i6-6C and i8-12T CPU.
FailFish ... just incompetent people problems ... FailFish
What you're asking for is even more market segmentation and consumer confusion, which Intel has done before and resulted in tons of unsold chips.
.....has the sleeping giant finally awoken? This should have been their first response to ryzen and not all those rubber chickens they've been flinging at consumers lately (which sadly they will still make a ton of money on).
4 cores: 8 MB, 6 MB; 33.3% more
6 cores: 12 MB, 9 MB; 33.3% more
So if you are the type who likes to upgrade the PC part by part, Coffee Lake is not for you.
And now that AMD started to stir things up we can expect high improvements year by year so investing to a new platform that will have a single year of lifespan seems foolish.
Core i7: 7700K
- Processor Base Frequency: 4.20 GHz
- Max Turbo Frequency: 4.50 GHz
Core i7: 8700K- Processor Base Frequency: 3.70 GHz
- Min Turbo Frequency(6c): 4.30 GHz
- Max Turbo Frequency(1c): 4.70 GHz
So, how come is this progress again if the TDP/core is lower than of a i7 7700K ??Henceforth, it's silly.
doesnt seem to be enough z370 leaks for it to be a real launch, unless it is compatible with z270, which has already been refuted by asrock.
so probably going to have to wait till q4 for these.
6 + 33.3% = 7.998 ~ 8
9 + 33.3% = 11.997 ~ 12
The reason that i3 is now closer to i5 is because of the doubled cores, which means the cache was also doubled, but the per core ratio is still the same:
Dual i3: 4 MB -> 2 MB to core ratio
Quad i3: 8 MB -> 2 MB
Quad i5: 6 MB -> 1.5 MB
Hexa i5: 9 MB -> 1.5 MB
Basically i3 has always had a per core cache advantage (except for the lowest end i3) over i5.
Still, you're right that it's silly. I agree that i5s should have as much cache as i7s.