Tuesday, June 6th 2017
Intel Rushes in a Six-core Mainstream Desktop Processor by September
With AMD Ryzen 5 six-core and Ryzen 7 eight-core chips having blunt the edge of the $329 Core i7-7700K, the upper-end of Intel's mainstream desktop processor line-up has lost competitiveness to Intel's bean-counters. The company is readying a new mainstream-desktop platform, which in all likelihood, heralds a new socket, and the new Z370 Express chipset.
Intel plans to launch this platform by August-September (before Q4 sets in), and it has one big difference - a new six-core part, based on the 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" silicon. Built on a refined 14 nm process, the 6-core "Coffee Lake" chip could feature its TDP rating around the 95W mark for the "K" (multiplier unlocked) part. Quad-core parts could also be carved out of this silicon, with their TDP rated at 65W for the non-K (multiplier-locked) parts. AMD Ryzen 7 1700 eight-core chip with unlocked multipler is rated at 65W. Intel will follow up on its first-wave of "Coffee Lake" chips with additional quad-core and dual-core parts in Q1-2018, besides other 300-series chipsets (likely the H370 and B350).
Source:
Reddit user Zakman
Intel plans to launch this platform by August-September (before Q4 sets in), and it has one big difference - a new six-core part, based on the 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" silicon. Built on a refined 14 nm process, the 6-core "Coffee Lake" chip could feature its TDP rating around the 95W mark for the "K" (multiplier unlocked) part. Quad-core parts could also be carved out of this silicon, with their TDP rated at 65W for the non-K (multiplier-locked) parts. AMD Ryzen 7 1700 eight-core chip with unlocked multipler is rated at 65W. Intel will follow up on its first-wave of "Coffee Lake" chips with additional quad-core and dual-core parts in Q1-2018, besides other 300-series chipsets (likely the H370 and B350).
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EDIT: oh yeah, it was effikan in "The Slumbering Giant Awakes" piece. Yeah, he has been remarkably quiet in the face of the continued antics of the big, blind giant thrashing around trying to find the mouse.
Way to go intel....not:kookoo:
This time amd has realy taken intel with there pants down.
Remember, it's two (three if you're lucky) processor generations per socket.
I think almost always was 2 generations per socket. Why is changing socket a rip after Skylake and Kaby. Or it's because of the P-A-O model (3 generations per socket) Moore's law is your answer. Lets see if the next AMD microarchitecture will make a jump comparable to Excavator-Ryzen
BTW this thread oozes AMD fanboyism (even if I am not a fanboy of anything, just give me something good and cheaper, not brands). What's bad about Intel responding to AMD? precisely AMD Ryzen is a response to Intel.
I two games (well OK, mainly one game) that are heavily single-threaded beasts, namely Starcraft 2.
For instance, you can't overclock a Ryzen chip past 4 GHz due to internal throttling. Even if you do some how manage to overclock it past 4 GHz the performance gains that you get past 4 GHz becomes negligible at best, 4 GHz on Ryzen is the wall of diminishing returns; hit that "wall" and you won't get any more out of it.
I was then reading about how this one user has an i5 7600k processor that's been overclocked to 5 GHz. By his math that's 5/4 = 1.25 or a 25% single thread performance increase from CPU clock alone. Add another 5 to 15% performance on Kaby Lake over Ryzen (we know this) and you end up with a potential 31-45% single thread performance benefit on his overclocked i5 7600k processor. With that being said, the game dips down to 30 FPS despite having that Core i5 7600k of his overclocked to 5 GHz along with DDR4-3200 memory.
On my system's overclocked Core i5 3570k CPU the game dips down to as low as 15 FPS when there's a lot of action on the screen.
Basically Starcraft 2, still one of my favorite games, requires all the CPU power you can throw at it and then some. The game itself under the hood is an un-optimized piece of shit, the only thing that will make it run better is throwing more hardware at it. Before you say that Blizzard can fix it, I doubt it. The game engine is over seven years old, I highly doubt that Blizzard would be willing to go "under the hood" and do anything about it.
Why go for the X299, unify SKUs in a single platform, make casual models cheaper, etc.. if only to go back to new.. newer sockets? :S
Jeesus with these people. I try and i try and they just want me to think badly of them.
Is ryzen good? Hell it is!
But... Who has the best budget chip with 4 threads for 60 bucks?
Who has the best cpu for high refresh e-sports gaming, supporting high speed memory?
You guys are so biased it's funny :D like ryzen is undoubtely the best option for everyone... Lol and now intel announces 6 core mainstream and they are bashed. Come on guys.
(Intel fanboys are just as bad btw)
The one thing that's holding Ryzen back is its low clock speed. More cores don't really matter to those programs that are largely single-threaded beasts, the only thing that matters is high clock speed and high single-thread IPCs. If Ryzen v2.0 comes out and suddenly not only improves IPCs but provides for higher base clock speeds then, and only then, will Ryzen be an overall winner. The Ryzen CPU may be a great workstation CPU (no doubt about that) where you need lots of cores to do lots of number crunching but gaming is a different story.
4 core HEDT and 6 core mainstream, Kabylake X wtf intel! really?
Pretty much nothing in your comment makes sense.
Shits sake the 18 core muther chucker will be out after coffee lake at this rate.
Total shitstorm of confusion if you ask me but yeah competition ,, tut one side always makes an ass of it.