Monday, December 30th 2019
Intel 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" Lineup and Specs Revealed
Ahead of a possible reveal in the sidelines of CES, followed by an early-Q2 2020 product-launch, company slides detailing Intel's 10th generation Core desktop processors in the LGA1200 package, codenamed "Comet Lake-S," leaked to the web courtesy Informatica Cero. They confirm that HyperThreading will play a key role, with Intel enabling it across the lineup. The range-topping Core i9 series will be 10-core/20-thread along with 20 MB of L3 cache. The Core i7 series will be 8-core/16-thread, along with 16 MB L3 cache. The all-important Core i5 series will be 6-core/12-thread, equipped with 12 MB of L3 cache. The Core i3 series will have two sub-tiers: i3-103xx series with 4-core/8-thread and 8 MB L3 cache; and i3-101xx series 4-core/8-thread with 6 MB L3 cache.
The Core i7 and Core i9 "Comet Lake" chips will feature native support for dual-channel DDR4-2933, while the Core i5 and Core i3 will make do with native DDR4-2667 support (memory overclocking possible). Besides core/thread counts, and cache size increases, Intel will dial up clock speeds across the board by as much as 300 MHz per SKU (vs. their 9th gen predecessor), and introduce Turbo Boost Max 3.0, which has been exclusive to its HEDT processors. The introduction of Turbo Boost Max 3.0 could also bring about modern favored-core capability (benefiting Windows 10 1909 and later). The classic Turbo Boost is also available. There's also a mysterious new feature called "Thermal Velocity Boost," with its own set of clock-speeds depending on core/thread load. The chips could also feature Modern Standby C10 power-state support (first to the desktop platform). Intel is said to have also added several new core and memory overclocking features on the K-SKUs.
Built on a 14 nm-class silicon fabrication node, and featuring the same IPC as "Skylake," the 10th generation Core "Comet Lake" series will rely on aggressive power-management to sustain 65 W TDP rating for most SKUs, but Intel's virtual barrier for 95 W as the TDP number for unlocked K SKUs ends with the 10 generation (the i9-9900KS already breaks that). The 10th generation Core K SKUs have a scorching 125 W TDP rating not just for the 10-core i9-10900K and 8-core i7-10700K, but also the 6-core i5-10600K. The table above details the various SKUs we could make out from the low image-quality slide screenshots.
Sources:
Informatica Cero, VideoCardz
The Core i7 and Core i9 "Comet Lake" chips will feature native support for dual-channel DDR4-2933, while the Core i5 and Core i3 will make do with native DDR4-2667 support (memory overclocking possible). Besides core/thread counts, and cache size increases, Intel will dial up clock speeds across the board by as much as 300 MHz per SKU (vs. their 9th gen predecessor), and introduce Turbo Boost Max 3.0, which has been exclusive to its HEDT processors. The introduction of Turbo Boost Max 3.0 could also bring about modern favored-core capability (benefiting Windows 10 1909 and later). The classic Turbo Boost is also available. There's also a mysterious new feature called "Thermal Velocity Boost," with its own set of clock-speeds depending on core/thread load. The chips could also feature Modern Standby C10 power-state support (first to the desktop platform). Intel is said to have also added several new core and memory overclocking features on the K-SKUs.
82 Comments on Intel 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" Lineup and Specs Revealed
Depends on your use case...
Wouldn't you want to run the highest possible clock speeds for those 10threads?
OK, maybe that use case represents the unspoken 2%. :)
How much can you trust them when they keep on saying they "fixed" it when they keep on failing? Anyone here watch LEVEL ONE TECHS?
I watch a lot of photography and film-making youtubers and overclocking computers has never been even mention once as a factor in production and work-flow. They just buy the best for editing machines like Mac Pros or what have you on the PC side of things and call it a day.
Only PC-gamers are still kinda obsessed with it.
Picked up a SpaceCo monitor arm waaaaay back when Wendell use to hide behind that cluster of them lol on Teksyndicate. I only have a single arm, Wendell had like (6) monitor arms at once. :)
www.spaceco.com//monitorarm.php
Overclocking a CPU really can increase your responsiveness - zippiness you feel and time saved completing any task when working with files transferring a very long document from one text format to another, completing single word searches within 50 or so reference documents and single/multiple word edits within a book, also category redundancy backups to multiple drives both internal and external.
The same type of faster responsiveness and lower latency and time saving offered by high speed ddr4 and NVMe Optane low QD1 and QD2 super low 10microsecond latency.
CPU overclocking
DDR4 overclocking - higher speeds and lower latency
Primary OS drive super low latency for QD1 and QD2
These (3) components really help completing work quickly. For a work PC. :)
Superfast storage (and pull from reference) drives also would contribute to working quickly if using large files, but I only use small to medium size files so SATA 2.5inch backup drives are simply awesome for the price.
:)
Thats 2.4x the long-term 65W TDP
I wouldn't invite those others in the Syndicate to a dinner party. :roll:
:roll:
Did you see the video where their side kick guy got "chipped" and fainted?
Wendell and Logan obverse sides of the same coin. lol
Only youtube I keep up with now is Gamer's Nexus coverage at CES and Computex and Der8auer and Buildzoid only when new chipsets CPUs are launched examined delidded.
Guess, I'm out of the youtube loop.
...and I feel good about it. :D
What a wonderful time to be alive.
sniffle, sniffle.