Tuesday, August 1st 2017
Intel Readies Four 6-core "Coffee Lake" SKUs, Including Two Core i5
Intel is beginning to feel the pinch of AMD Ryzen 7-series, and the upper-end of the Ryzen 5-series, which offer better multi-threaded performance than similarly-priced quad-core Intel Core i7 and Core i5 "Kaby Lake" processors, and reasonably good single-thread performance, and platform costs. The company is responding in force with four new six-core SKUs, and for the first time since "Nehalem," the company isn't changing the socket with the introduction of its third mainstream-desktop micro-architecture on a given process. The 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" mainstream-desktop processors will be built in the existing LGA1151 package, and will hopefully support existing motherboards through BIOS updates, even though Intel plans a new 300-series chipset to go with these chips.
The six-core "Coffee Lake" processor lineup addresses not just the higher-end of the lineup with Core i7 SKUs, but also the mid-range of it, with Core i5 SKUs. One of these could even scrape the sub-$200 price-point. Of the four confirmed SKUs are the top-dog Core i7-8700K, its slightly cheaper sibling, the Core i7-8700 (non-K); and the Core i5-8600K, with its cheaper sibling, the Core i5-8400. Of these the i7-8700K and i5-8600K are unlocked. The Core i7 parts feature HyperThreading enabling 12 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with, and 12 MB of shared L3 cache; while the Core i5 parts lack HyperThreading, and only feature 9 MB of L3 cache. The clock speeds and other features are tabled below. The company plans to launch these four either by the end of Q3 (late-September) or some time in Q4, before Holiday.
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Anandtech Forums
The six-core "Coffee Lake" processor lineup addresses not just the higher-end of the lineup with Core i7 SKUs, but also the mid-range of it, with Core i5 SKUs. One of these could even scrape the sub-$200 price-point. Of the four confirmed SKUs are the top-dog Core i7-8700K, its slightly cheaper sibling, the Core i7-8700 (non-K); and the Core i5-8600K, with its cheaper sibling, the Core i5-8400. Of these the i7-8700K and i5-8600K are unlocked. The Core i7 parts feature HyperThreading enabling 12 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with, and 12 MB of shared L3 cache; while the Core i5 parts lack HyperThreading, and only feature 9 MB of L3 cache. The clock speeds and other features are tabled below. The company plans to launch these four either by the end of Q3 (late-September) or some time in Q4, before Holiday.
107 Comments on Intel Readies Four 6-core "Coffee Lake" SKUs, Including Two Core i5
Zen beats Skylake-X at literally everything, and Coffee Lake will also be way better than Skylake-X at everything.
I swear, some people just let their favoritism of a multi billion dollar publicly traded company get to their brain and spout the stupidest things ever.
GTX 970 and i5-6400 still good for me but I'm waiting for mid-range volta based Cards (probably GTX 2060) and a cheap Six core Coffee lake processor like i5-8400 to Build a budget 2K Gaming System.(or even 4K in some games)
The price is likely to be high around $ 500. 4.7 Gh is a new bust max, which I think is intentional since AMD can not handle more than 4Gh in normal operation, as a short leap to 4.1 gh can not be taken into account !
The name is very appropriate.
They have had very similar prices for their consumer Core parts of the past 6 years, starting with Sandy Bridge yet some especially smart people scream that they will be sold for $500 a piece.
Now, if you start using the grey matter in your head you'll quickly realize that the professional SkyLake 7800X CPU costs $389 and consumer parts just cannot cost higher because they have fewer features (no AVX512, a lot less PCI-E lanes, no official DDR4-2400 support) and because we have Ryzen which despite its lower IPC boasts 8 cores and 16 threads in a very competitive price range.
As much as you hate Intel and NVIDIA, people in their marketing departments are not complete morons and they will not sell overpriced products when the competition offers a significantly better price/performance ratio.
It's kinda astounding to see so many rabid AMD fanboys nowadays - I mean they've always been there but never so vocal and belligerent. It surely looks like the WCCFTech AMD infection is spreading onto other websites: first VideoCardz, then AnandTech, now TPU.
I'm all for competition, but let's be respectful, mindful and let's stop with throwing shat at each other.
The simple picture is we have an industry dominated by two big companies. One is bigger than the other so it has more room to maneuver so it takes advantage of that, the other one is smaller, thus it has to play the good will card more. That's how it is and it couldn't be anything else.
Seriously, those must be the most useless CPU's ever.