Friday, January 19th 2018
Intel Coffee Lake-S Core i3-8300, i5-8500 Release Date, Lineup Pricing Outed
Intel's 8th gen, Coffee Lake-architecture CPUs will soon see new additions to the lineup, if leaked retail dates are correct. While Intel's six-core processors have earned themselves a respectable position in the CPU market - even if outgunned, core-wise, by AMD's Ryzen - the company is in dire need of shoring up its lower-pricing offerings so as to better compete with AMD's full available line-up, which currently offers users many more choices in both platform pricing, features, and processor specs. The date seems to be a make-up gift from the blue giant: it's expected these processors will hit retail on February 14th.
According to information gathered from etailers and retailers' early website listings for Intel's processors, pricing for Intel's lineup should fall between $51 for the lowliest Celeron G4900 (2 cores, 2 threads) and $264 for the Core i5-8600 (4 cores, 8 threads). The first Intel quad-thread processor in the lineup, the Pentium G5600, will carry 2 cores and 4 threads, and retail for about $77; Intel's first true quad-core processor, the i3-8300, should retail for about $165; and the first 6 core, 6 thread CPU, the i5-8500, should retail for $228.
Source:
Videocardz
24 Comments on Intel Coffee Lake-S Core i3-8300, i5-8500 Release Date, Lineup Pricing Outed
The 8600 should have only 6, no hyper threading even.
Come on, TPU, you know better than this.
The i5-8400 has a base clock of 2.8 GHz, the i5-8500 will have 3.0 GHz, just 200 MHz more, but psychologically relevant. With the Turbo clocks, the 8400 is 300 MHz slower than the 8600K for each core loading, so there's not much room for the 8500 in between. It could either be 100 or 200 MHz faster respectively than the 8400 on the Turbo clocks.
With just a 5% increase in clocks, that's how much the end price should increase from the 8400 too. But you have to factor in that it's going to be the fastest CPU with a 65W TDP and seem more desirable with a 3 GHz base clock, so let's say 10% increase in price is justified. That's a 20 buck higher price.
These new vulnerabilities affect pretty much any processor that does speculative execution (even ARM or Nvidia ones aren't safe). Yet somehow you thought pinning this on Intel might be a good idea...
Also if we're talking "facts", Meltdown is not "only Intel". It also affects ARM. And since AMD initially claimed they were safe, I'm not so sure Meltdown won't be shown to affect some AMD CPUs as well in the future. But for now, this hasn't been exploited, so let's give AMD the benefit of the doubt.
FIXED IT.....