Wednesday, February 12th 2020
Intel Core i7-10700K Features 5.30 GHz Turbo Boost
Intel's 10th generation Core "Comet Lake-S" desktop processor series inches chose to its probable April 2020 launch. Along the way we get this fascinating leak of the company's Core i7-10700K desktop processor, which could become a go-to chip for gamers if its specifications and pricing hold up. Thai PC enthusiast TUM_APISAK revealed what could be a Futuremark SystemInfo screenshot of the i7-10700K which confirms its clock speeds - 3.80 GHz nominal, with an impressive 5.30 GHz Turbo Boost. Intel is probably tapping into the series' increased maximum TDP of 125 W to clock these chips high across the board.
The Core i7-10700K features 8 cores, and HyperThreading enables 16 threads. It also features 16 MB of shared L3 cache. In essence, this chip has the same muscle as the company's current mainstream desktop flagship, the i9-9900K, but demoted to the Core i7 brand extension. This could give it a sub-$400 price, letting it compete with the likes of AMD's Ryzen 7 3800X and possibly even triggering a price-cut on the 3900X. The i7-10700K in APISAK's screenshot is shown running on an ECS Z490H6-A2 motherboard, marking the company's return to premium Intel chipsets. ECS lacks Z390 or Z370 based motherboards in its lineup, and caps out at B360.
Source:
TUM_APISAK (Twitter)
The Core i7-10700K features 8 cores, and HyperThreading enables 16 threads. It also features 16 MB of shared L3 cache. In essence, this chip has the same muscle as the company's current mainstream desktop flagship, the i9-9900K, but demoted to the Core i7 brand extension. This could give it a sub-$400 price, letting it compete with the likes of AMD's Ryzen 7 3800X and possibly even triggering a price-cut on the 3900X. The i7-10700K in APISAK's screenshot is shown running on an ECS Z490H6-A2 motherboard, marking the company's return to premium Intel chipsets. ECS lacks Z390 or Z370 based motherboards in its lineup, and caps out at B360.
273 Comments on Intel Core i7-10700K Features 5.30 GHz Turbo Boost
The new gaming consoles all have 8 core cpus on board, so the next gen games will be all optimized for 8 cores, more isn't that necessary here. This cpu could really be best choice for gaming.
Good cooling solution assumed.
My 9900KS is all cores where the 9900K is 2 cores... Rest of the 6 are 4.7GHz
10700K would be interesting if it was all cores 5.3GHz.... But I doubt it
Hopefully Intel Meteor Lake (7nm) is the big comeback.
Icelake-S 10nm+ had bad yields so they had to convert it onto 14nm++ Comet Lake with unfinished memory controller and Q1 2020 is 6 months late to the market. The finished fixed memory controller is in Rocket Lake made by Samsung scheduled Q4 2020. Intel 10th generation is very short lived.
Yes they are going straight from 14nm to 7nm with brand new Fab42 factory. Fab42 is 7nm from the start then upgraded to 5nm/3nm/1.4nm
Intel Meteor Lake-S is there first product from Fab42
New Fab42 factory with Trump approval cost $7 Billion to build more than AMD is worth.
Intel 10th & 11th gens are just a gap fillers....I suggest not using LGA 1200 socket.... Wait for Meteor Lake on LGA 1700 socket PCIe 5.0
So fanboys enjoy your less than 3 years window before your Extinction from the coming Intel Meteor lol
Intel's 10nm might be very troubled and have struggled with poor yields (for now). But it's not dead, far from it. Ice Lake-Y and -U alone is probably close to or surpassing Zen 2 in shipped units (though Ice Lake only being low performance parts unfortunately). Many people fail to realize how incredible high volumes Intel ship on laptop and OEM parts.
But in terms of money spent, 10nm is certainly costly for Intel.
One will be locked onto hypervisor duties, another one or two will be locked onto OS for seamless transition between game and GUI, maybe keep one as a keyholder/decryptor.
Consoles run completely different to PC, the 2 are not comparable.
With next-gen consoles, we are going to see estimated 6X-8X CPU speed increase and between 95-110% higher GPU performance.
The Jaguar-based 4-module CPUs in PS4 and XBO will be completely obliterated.
It will be a new experience in the consoles world never seen before.
Which of course would mean that the requirements for the PC games will increase because they have always been more demanding and perhaps less optimised.
Read your homework - www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-we-built-a-zen-2-navi-pc-to-next-gen-console-specs
Not all 8 CPU cores will be used on gaming.
PS4 had 8 jaguar cores, not all of them were used for gaming, it's resources were split.
The chips that get 5 Ghz and up (6c12t or 8c and up) out of 1.3V are quite rare. Especially without an offset. It certainly isn't the norm.
Does not compute.
In reality, what we see is that current consoles are both CPU and GPU limited and that even similar spec PCs with a faster CPU can get a better overall experience out of it. So no, there isn't a big plus to running console games on a console anymore. The only thing is high quality optimization, but that really only happens for a handful of first party titles. The cheaper devs haven't got time for that at all, they dev a console version on the PC and outsource any ports.
That said we don't disagree. Yes, the CPU demands for games will go up a bit. But I think you will find that CPU and its threads in use for many other things besides gaming, just like on a PC. In fact, the console is fast becoming the device that does more multitasking than your typical gamer PC. It has more readily integrated social apps, recording, media applications, etc. On a PC those are services you can control yourself.
What Zen will really do for the next consoles is bring the CPU part of it back up to balance with the GPU. It was much needed. It allows the consoles to support 60hz/120hz gaming better and this is not a coincidence with 4K120hz capable OLED out. 30 FPS is rapidly becoming something that is viewed as subpar, even in mainstream, and as panel diagonals increase, it becomes much more visible to have low refresh rate. Not pleasant to look at.This'll do I think. Just don't use the auto OC setting please. Intel does not support overclocking.
The guys of PC Games Hardware tested the new TR for their gaming capability and although they are not completely useless for gaming like the old one, they are not gaming cpus. That said you can play games with the new TR but they are at best in the middle of gaming performance compared to all cpus. An 8 core/16 thread cpu is definitely sufficient for gaming.Nice one :D
For manual OC all cores 5.3GHz you need a good aftermarket open loop rated 400w say SWIFTtech or EK etc etc...