Monday, September 11th 2017
Intel Core "Coffee Lake" Germany Prices Revealed - Price Increases Marginal
Prices of 8th generation Intel Core "Coffee Lake" desktop processors are expected to be higher than their 7th generation "Kaby Lake" counterparts, owing to increased core counts and L3 cache, but the price increases don't scale linearly. According to prices leaked by German online retailer LambdaTek, the prices increases are noticeable, although marginal.
The flagship Core i7-8700K is priced at 389€ (including VAT), followed by the i7-8700 at 327€. On the same store, the current i7-7700K is priced at 349€, and the i7-7700 (non-K) at 313€. The new Core i5-8600K is priced at 273€, and the i5-8400 at 192€. Here, too, the price increases between generations is only marginal, given that the Core i5-7600K is priced at 236€, and the i5-7400 at 182€.
The quad-core Core i3-8350K is priced nearly on-par with the six-core i5-8400, at 188€, which is higher than the 164€ commanded by the i3-7350K dual-core chip (you get double the cores and L3 cache). The Core i3-8100 quad-core is the most affordable of the lot, priced at 123€, which again, is only marginally higher than the 119€ the Core i3-7100 dual-core chip asks. These prices bode particularly well for these chips' pricing in the US, and will lock Intel into a price-war with AMD and its highly competitive Ryzen processors.
The flagship Core i7-8700K is priced at 389€ (including VAT), followed by the i7-8700 at 327€. On the same store, the current i7-7700K is priced at 349€, and the i7-7700 (non-K) at 313€. The new Core i5-8600K is priced at 273€, and the i5-8400 at 192€. Here, too, the price increases between generations is only marginal, given that the Core i5-7600K is priced at 236€, and the i5-7400 at 182€.
20 Comments on Intel Core "Coffee Lake" Germany Prices Revealed - Price Increases Marginal
Especially, since we in Germany always have the prices noted including sales tax. And even if we don't (for B2B transactions) we don't call that stuff "VAT". The German word for our ales tax is "Mehrwertsteuer" or in short "MwSt." when given next to prices not including it.
Even the "About us" page in German looks like the typical translated "Engrish" as in, bad syntax, mising words, wrong grammar. All of that NOT stuff you would want to see in any reputable online store. At least we Germans would have shunned that shop long ago.
Thats probably where they get the "translation" from ;)
I was just looking for some headphones for my phone, and it was one of the shops in the Google Shopping "list" of sites.
There were much better, and more trustworthy sites available, so I went with a different site.
It's safe to assume the die size have decreased by 50% safely and the inflation is at around 10 dollars.
Yes, they've gotten more expensive for the same target audience.
They're not dodgy but this price leak isn't any reflection at all on what the standard costs will likely be.
Price increases for 8600K and 8700K are far from marginal. That "K" just got a huge raise in both cases.
As far as credibility goes, this does sound very realistic to me. The i7 7700k was just an overinflated, hot headed piece of crap let's be very brutally honest. 'I need a delid to outperform 2 year old designs' - ridiculous.
If you go by price/mm^2 of silicon for 4 core i7s, the Sandy Bridge is half the price of the Sky Lake for the same silicon area.