Monday, August 7th 2017
Intel Core i3-8300 Detailed - First Quad-Core i3
Intel Core i3-8300 could be the company's first quad-core processor to bear the Core i3 badge. Based on the 14 nm "Coffee Lake-S" silicon, This SKU could be priced in the upper-band of the Core i3 lineup (around the USD $150 mark), offering four cores. As if that isn't surprising enough, this quad-core chip even reportedly features HyperThreading, enabling 8 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with.
For the first time, a Core i3 part will have more logical CPUs than a Core i5 part, which lacks HyperThreading. Such a feature disparity won't be new, as current Core i3 dual-core SKUs feature HyperThreading, which Core i5 quad-core parts lack. The i3-8300, however, will lack Turbo Boost, which Core i5 SKUs will feature. The chip reportedly features a clock speed of 4.00 GHz. The L3 cache amount and TDP of this chip remain unknown at this point. Intel could launch Core i3 "Coffee Lake" processors only by late-2017 or early-2018.
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For the first time, a Core i3 part will have more logical CPUs than a Core i5 part, which lacks HyperThreading. Such a feature disparity won't be new, as current Core i3 dual-core SKUs feature HyperThreading, which Core i5 quad-core parts lack. The i3-8300, however, will lack Turbo Boost, which Core i5 SKUs will feature. The chip reportedly features a clock speed of 4.00 GHz. The L3 cache amount and TDP of this chip remain unknown at this point. Intel could launch Core i3 "Coffee Lake" processors only by late-2017 or early-2018.
50 Comments on Intel Core i3-8300 Detailed - First Quad-Core i3
Also, wouldn't a fast 4c/8t be better than a slow 6c/6t in everything or even a fast 6c/6t overall? I3 quad-cores could be the i5 6-cores' archenemies! XD
that aside if this news turned to be true, then Intel pretty much killed their newborn X299 platform
Old Setup i3 2c 4t / i5 4c 4t / i7 4c 8t
New Setup i3 4c 8t / i5 6c 6t / i7 6c 12t
perfectly acceptable
So basically an i7 7800!
So if the new lineup turned out to be i3 4c/8t no boost, i5 4c/8t boost instead of 6c/6t and i7 6c/12t, I wouldn't be surprised.
The downside is these 8xxx don't seem to run in Z170 motherboards now do they? :ohwell:
Then my next CPU upgrade would be an i7 6700K.
By the way of course M$ will force you to go windows 10 with using these processors......:banghead:
You won't be able to get updates anymore on windows 8.1....:banghead:
It'll probably be like this:
i3 - 4c/4t
i5 - 6c/6t
i7 - 6c/12t
But if it's true, what's the catch?
This is a 4790/4790k
AVX +++
tons of options which they've done in the past :)
4C8T is worse than 6C due to the now 1.375mb cache per core thus giving the 6 core a larger cache which have a huge effect as we all know.
What if they took i9 from hedt on to desktop platform too?
So full line up would be something:
Celeron 2c/2t, Pentium 2c/4t, i3 4c/4t, i5 4c/8t, i7 6c/6t and i9 6c/12t.
Update: According to the poster from NGA, the original image is from Tieba Baidu, in other words, it might be fake.
2/4t $80, 4c/4t $150, 4c/8t $220, 6c/8t $whatever. All without iGPU, all without any bells and whistles, a good amount of cache (hence the price premium), fully unlocked and crazy stock speeds. Then the normal CPUs could be left alone by the gamers and their grubby opinions.
With current efficiency of Intel's hyperthreading that 4c/8t chip will destroy a hypothetical 6c/6t Core i5.
If intel buffs i3 lineup to compete with newly risen Ryzen 3 (pun intended), which in its turn was created as a direct competitor to current i3 lineup, then there is no way Team Blue will go for total overkill.
These #fakenews break the logic even further, with 4C4T pentiums and celerons. Intel barely moved on to 2C/4T in desktop Pentium segment this year(8mo ago, more specifically).
Another dead giveaway in the original post is this:
Suspiciously looks like i7-6700K's evil twin brother.That's a more proper speculation :laugh:
4c/8t CPU would go in a lineup like this:
i3 - 4c/8t
i5 - 6c/12t
i7 - 8c/16t
That would be the most logical path.