Monday, July 17th 2017
Acer Notebooks Among First to Feature Core "Coffee Lake" Processors
PC major Acer will be among the first manufacturers to deploy Intel's 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" processors on its products. The company's Swift 3 notebook, which is already open to pre-orders on Amazon, has one of its CPU options as Intel Core i5-8250U, as discovered by LaptopMedia, in an article. It goes on to describe the i5-8250U as a quad-core chip clocked at 1.60 GHz with up to 3.40 GHz boost, with 6 MB of L3 cache. This is particularly big for the ultra-slim notebook segment as the i5-8250U is among the first quad-core "ultra low power" ("U" suffix) SKUs based on a high performance core, by Intel. The listing doesn't reveal when the notebook will ship.
Source:
LaptopMedia
16 Comments on Acer Notebooks Among First to Feature Core "Coffee Lake" Processors
The next gen U series should come with quad core finally, but the standard mobile H series will come with 6 cores for i7 with HT, we don't know if i5 will come with 6 cores without HT or with 4 cores with HT
There is nothing special about being first here matey :p
AMD's /TSMC's 14nm process for Ryzen and Threadripper is very limited in clocks, whereas INTEL's goes further with more cores. 28nm Maxwell 2.0 on 980 Ti doubled the performance from Kepler, using the same 28nm node, but the power consumption didn't double. 195 vs 250W. The 28nm process in 2012 when Kepler came out wasn't capable of the clocks and densities with that power draw/ouput in 2015 when 980 Ti showed up.
Broadwell-E is 14nm clocks like a lemon, Haswell-E is 22nm and clocks like a demon.
Don't obsess over the node, as it doesn't tell you anything in isolation.
Consumer wise, Coffee Lake is a much better choice than Cannonlake(10nm), but might be equal with Icelake(10nm+). I don't think anyone should consider Ryzen, over Coffee Lake or possibly the 8-core 10nm SKU from Intel. I am leaving it open just in case, Sunnycove/Wlcove(codenames that might not actually be thee codenames) comes out which is largely built by Bulldozer/Piledriver(from the first AMD exodus) people at Intel. (There is the second exodus which was AMD to Softmachines to Intel, just a heads up as well.) Which is why I have a behind the back jazz hands. Once, Clustered Multithreading, always Clustered Multithreading. (If I have to choose between two SMT, I would go for the mature option always.)
5th Generation i5
6th Generation i5
7th Generation i5
It's good they are finally releasing some more of these variations, it was tiring to have to pay for the i7 upgrade all the time just to get a quad core on the main chip lineup and the U lineup needs some freshening up.
Comparing 10/12 core chips to an 8 and bitching that the formers pull more is asinine and trollbaiting on a good day.
Someone is either an imbecile or pretends to be one.
Again,
7820X stock frequency ~ 140W TDP
1800X stock frequency ~90W TDP
7820X is by no means 55% faster (140/90) than 1800X. Talk about power efficiency, high frequency or IPC advantage more.
Now, fook off.