Tuesday, March 3rd 2020
Intel Core i9-10900K and i7-10700K Allegedly Pictured
Alleged pictures of the upcoming Intel Core i9-10900K and i7-10700K processors made it to Chinese social media. The blurry-cam pictures of the chips' topside don't reveal much other than the "Intel Confidential" markings, denoting that these chips are engineering samples. The reverse side confirm that these are chips are built in the new LGA1200 package. You can also spot electrical ancillaries laid out unlike any previous-gen Intel package, and different socket key notches.
In the run up to the rumored April 2020 launch we could learn more about these chips. Based on the 14 nm "Comet Lake" silicon, Intel's 10th generation Core desktop processors in the LGA1200 package increase logical processor counts across the board, and increase clock speeds. The i9-10900K is a 10-core/20-thread processor with 20 MB of shared L3 cache, and up to 5.10 GHz boost frequency, with 4.80 GHz all-core boost. The i7-10700K, on the other hand, is an 8-core/16-thread chip with 16 MB L3 cache, and clock speeds of 5.00 GHz boost and 4.50 GHz all-core Turbo. The Core i5 series also gets a shot in the arm, being configured as 6-core/12-thread, with 12 MB of L3 cache. The per-core performance (IPC) is expected to be the same as 6th generation "Skylake."
Sources:
WolStame (Weibo), 9550Pro (Twitter)
In the run up to the rumored April 2020 launch we could learn more about these chips. Based on the 14 nm "Comet Lake" silicon, Intel's 10th generation Core desktop processors in the LGA1200 package increase logical processor counts across the board, and increase clock speeds. The i9-10900K is a 10-core/20-thread processor with 20 MB of shared L3 cache, and up to 5.10 GHz boost frequency, with 4.80 GHz all-core boost. The i7-10700K, on the other hand, is an 8-core/16-thread chip with 16 MB L3 cache, and clock speeds of 5.00 GHz boost and 4.50 GHz all-core Turbo. The Core i5 series also gets a shot in the arm, being configured as 6-core/12-thread, with 12 MB of L3 cache. The per-core performance (IPC) is expected to be the same as 6th generation "Skylake."
16 Comments on Intel Core i9-10900K and i7-10700K Allegedly Pictured
If the price is similar or lower compared to the R7 3700x it might be interesting, but knowing Intel I doubt that.
They look suspiciously like CPUs.
Unless they cut the price, who cares?
They've already done exactly that once.
Since you need a new mainboard for these LGA 1200 CPUs, a lot of people are held back. For comparison, a 3900X costs 470€ and a 9900K costs 520€ now in Germany. 9900KS is at 700€ for some weird reason.
I would expect the 10900K in that price region. The 10700K should be placed lower, like the 9700K.
I really hope they cut prices, otherwise you can just slap a Ryzen 3k cpu in your 2 year old mainboard and have more performance for a much lower price (new mainboard + cpu compared to just a new CPU).
Any news on the LGA 1200 Boards tho?
Give me the new shit or stop releasing CPUs.