Monday, May 2nd 2016
Intel Core i7-7700K "Kaby Lake" Processor Detailed
It looks like Intel's 7th generation performance desktop processor, the Core i7-7700K, will be a quad-core part, like the seven generations before it. Leaked SiSoft SANDRA benchmark leaderboards reveal interesting details about the chip. To begin with, this quad-core part will feature HyperThreading enabling 8 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with. It will be clocked at 3.60 GHz, with a TurboBoost frequency of 4.20 GHz. Compare this, to the 4.00 GHz nominal and 4.20 GHz TurboBoost clocks of the current-generation i7-6700K. Bear in mind that this is a pre-release engineering-sample, and may not be accurate for the production chips.
The IMC of the i7-7700K will be clocked at 4.00 GHz, and its integrated graphics core will feature 24 execution units, much like "Skylake-D." The cache setup is unchanged, too, with 256 KB per-core L2, and 8 MB shared L3 caches. The "Kaby Lake" silicon will be built on Intel's 14 nm node, and is rumored to be slightly more energy-efficient than "Skylake." It will be built in the LGA1151 package, and will be compatible with current Intel 100-series and future 200-series chipset motherboard. "Kaby Lake" is the third mainline CPU architecture by Intel on the 14 nm node (after "Broadwell" and "Skylake"). The first 7th generation Core processors could launch later this year.
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WCCFTech
The IMC of the i7-7700K will be clocked at 4.00 GHz, and its integrated graphics core will feature 24 execution units, much like "Skylake-D." The cache setup is unchanged, too, with 256 KB per-core L2, and 8 MB shared L3 caches. The "Kaby Lake" silicon will be built on Intel's 14 nm node, and is rumored to be slightly more energy-efficient than "Skylake." It will be built in the LGA1151 package, and will be compatible with current Intel 100-series and future 200-series chipset motherboard. "Kaby Lake" is the third mainline CPU architecture by Intel on the 14 nm node (after "Broadwell" and "Skylake"). The first 7th generation Core processors could launch later this year.
153 Comments on Intel Core i7-7700K "Kaby Lake" Processor Detailed
AI is branching logic that isn't something that can be done GPUs.
Maybe the only thing to look forward to is the X-Point storage technology that is set to debut with the 200 series chipset.
Where are all these games that max out the CPU?
OK without further ado! Mediocre clubhouse assemble and rebuttal! lol Actually I have to be in meetings all day.... So, I won't be as active today. :toast:
Not all businesses run Xeon CPUs, anyway. Most run regular CPUs with maybe a Xeon or two in the servers.
To reiterate what I've said before, the consumer market is only a small portion of the big cheese here. Just because YOU can't find a feasible reason why we would want more than 4 cores in a mainstream model scheme doesn't mean there isn't relevant reason to have it. I've seen our i7 6700s maxed by compilers, coders, software engineers and the like but they won't get workstation class machines because they're told "you don't need it, we can't fit you in the budget". Of course, these people don't understand that the person waiting on something to be finished over time will be paid more in salary than the initial cost of a workstation machine.....but that's a totally different topic on business politics.
As far as when that is out.... Broadwell-E will take its place. It also will have a Hex core in the same price point as the current Haswell-E. ;)
If you want something greater than a quad-core, you choose another platform, and that's not likely to change any time soon.
www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400038.pdf
That's the cheapest workstation we can get with more than 4 cores, and the 6 cores sits in the middle of their product stack which only includes Xeons. Workstations do not have the option to come with i7s. If you go to HP's site for retail price the lowest equipped quadcore Xeon machine starts at 1299. That same machine will cost us 700 if we were to buy some. On the flip side if we were to buy an i7 6700 Prodesk it would cost us 300 less for a better performing machine. If we had the availability of a hex mainstream i7 the same situation in cost of workstation vs desktop class machine would be there. Make a little more sense? Consumer pricing has nothing to do with the debate when we add enterprise to the table. So again, there's relevance there. If you don't work IT in an enterprise market, or deal with the vendors then you won't understand if you can't grasp the concept from the info I'm providing. Incorrect, the classification of mainstream being used is technically incorrect but for the relevance of the thread it's being used. We call these "desktop" class chips, which to you guys would be mainstream. There's no difference between an i7 6700k and i7 6700 besides an unlocked multiplier but I have 3 machines here with an i7 6700. The point being missed is the fact that is a desktop class processor was to be released that was 6c/12t there would definitely be a major relevance. My example isn't in the minority here, Lockheed Martin and Boeing are huge companies with similar issues. I work at a plant with 16,000 people and this is one location and I happen to be smack dab in the middle of AeroIT and their preferred product group. All company reps go through my lab and I sit down to lunch with these folks. The attitude coming from Intel is they simply don't care. If the mass majority of people think 4 cores is enough and keep buying them, then they'll keep selling you the same product over and over with a smile on their face. Again, that's off topic. The debate was simply there's no relevance to more than 4 cores on "mainstream", but in reality there is.
Also, HP won't budge on pricing but Dell will. HP doesn't seem to care if they lose out to Dell, so I'd say they aren't struggling that bad. Maybe we can get the tides to turn on workstation pricing but I doubt it. They sent us a few Precision workstations but I haven't been told what they want to charge us for them.
For the record though, I do work in IT and am a part time Data Center manager, so yeah, I get it...also, mindweaver, who you initially quoted, wasn't talking enterprise. It was you who brought that up in this non enterprise based part and thread.
Have fun bub. :)