Friday, October 11th 2019
Next-Gen Intel Core i3 to Sport Hyper Threading?
TUM_APISAK has done of his well-regarded snoopings again, and this one could have relevant information for the democratization of threads in next-gen Intel products. Intel has been slowly (as they can) increasing the amount of cores and threads in their respective product lines across i3, i5, and i7 CPUs after AMD's Ryzen onslaught. Luckily, from two core, four-thread Core i3 of a few years ago, we now seem to be entering a new era for entry-level computing, with a new SiSoftware benchmark seemingly showing an Intel next-gen "Comet Lake" Core i3 CPU sporting 4 physical threads with Hyper Threading enabled (so, basically, the equivalent of Skylake Core i7's from just three years ago).
The benchmark submission lists what appears to be a four-core, eight-thread Core i3-10100. It sports a 3.6 GHz base clock, which likely isn't final, so take that frequency with a grain of salt. This shuffle in the low-end definitely means an upscale in Intel's more powerful lineups, with HyperThreading likely being active for all of their product stack across Comet Lake - 4C, 8T Core i3; 6C, 12T Core i5; 8C, 16T Core i7; and a likely 10C, 20T Core i9 10900K that straddles the line between consumer and HEDT platforms. Of course, remember these are still built upon the 14 nm process, give or take a few "+" symbols, so don't expect too much in terms of energy efficiency gains.
Sources:
TUM_APISAK @ Twitter, via Tom's Hardware
The benchmark submission lists what appears to be a four-core, eight-thread Core i3-10100. It sports a 3.6 GHz base clock, which likely isn't final, so take that frequency with a grain of salt. This shuffle in the low-end definitely means an upscale in Intel's more powerful lineups, with HyperThreading likely being active for all of their product stack across Comet Lake - 4C, 8T Core i3; 6C, 12T Core i5; 8C, 16T Core i7; and a likely 10C, 20T Core i9 10900K that straddles the line between consumer and HEDT platforms. Of course, remember these are still built upon the 14 nm process, give or take a few "+" symbols, so don't expect too much in terms of energy efficiency gains.
33 Comments on Next-Gen Intel Core i3 to Sport Hyper Threading?
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Well about dam time intel came with quad-core with HT for cheap. I have not forgotten when they for all most a decade released one quad after another and to be hornestly that where boring and at the end before AMD ryzen came i got from yes a new CPU gen from intel to oh a new intel release properly just another Quad core release yawn.
Thanks goodness for AMD came with ryzen and threadripper, cause else i still think we had been on the same boring boat from intel. Quad core release year after yearo_O. But then AMD came and :nutkick: intel and we now finnally have some interesting releases from intel with much cheaper 10000 series cpu´s and off cause AMD zen 2 chips. 2019 is the best year for cpu upgrade in a decade what ever you chose Blue or Red team.
Yeah 2c 4t then the I5 became the I3 and now the I7 is gonna be the I3 and the new I5 is gonna be a 8700?... Thank you AMD
Edit: I5- 9400 now the Pentium?
I3-9100 the new Celeron?
Wow
To my knowledge, DDR5 is coming in ~2021 with Sapphire Rapids (Golden Cove), but we might not get PCIe 5 immediately with consumer platforms, they may stick with PCIe 4 for a while. Currently DDR5 have too high latency compared to DDR4.
10nm products will only come to laptops for the next few years due low core counts. 10nm will not be released on desktop before 2022 and may well be skipped alltogether if Intel's 7nm picks up. But considering 10nm woes i would not hold my breath on that.
DDR5 will come to servers first in 2021 and mainstream problably 2022. No word on PCI-E 5.0 but considering how costly it was to implement 4.0 on X570 with signal repeaters and many layer PCB's i don't expect quick progress on that front in mainstream. Plus there are no mainstream devices yet that fully utilize 4.0 bandwidth.
As for IPC increase Intel has quoted only up to 18% for Sunny Cove vs Core arch.
All in all AMD will continue to dominate desktop space for years to come and Intel will try to hold on to their mobile and server market shares by prioritizing them over desktop.
People can still buy Intel on desktop but they've effectively lost their performance advantage. Essentially only the 500$+ i9's will remain relevant for those willing to spend double as much to get that last 5% in certain workloads and for bragging rights. Already Ryzen is outselling Core roughly 4:1 at major retailers and this will only get worse for Intel.
Will Intel make a comeback? Sure but it will take years and when they do it will not be a knockout like Conroe was back in the day against Athlon.
As for the troll who screams here about single AMD CPU not having SMT - LOL. Entire Ryzen stack has one CPU that does not have SMT. Half of Intel's stack does not have HT. Even i7-9700K, despite i7 always having HT. Go cry about that instead of 3500X that is compared against 9400 that also lack HT.
You'd be in dire straits to think that most corporate agendas aren't "Money for nothing and chic's for free."
Eh hehehe
One big conspiracy :D
No telling what it really is at this point except expensive.... For what it is.