Intel Core i3-8300 Detailed - First Quad-Core i3

[btarunr]

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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[GoldenX]

Maybe it's still a dual core but has 4 threads per core, new Hyper Threading 2.0!

 

[brian111]

Based on what I have read the consensus seems to be that this is fake. Intel would be cannibalizing itself to offer it. Four cores/four threads would be more likely.

 

[Deleted member 172152]

So the 8350k would be a 7700k. If true, it's quite sad that Intel had to downgrade the 7700k's replacement two rungs on the cpu ladder.

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

 

[cucker tarlson]

This doesn't add up at all if 8700K is pretty much certain to feature 6 cores 12 threads.

 

[chaosmassive]

This doesn't add up at all if 8700K is pretty much certain to feature 6 cores 12 threads.

how it doesn't? theoretically, if core i3 has 4c/8t, core i5 6c/6t,and core i7 would be 6c/12t
that aside if this news turned to be true, then Intel pretty much killed their newborn X299 platform

 

[cucker tarlson]

cause there is too little improvement from 4c/8t to 6c/12t to make a SKU jump from i3 to i7, from $150 to $350. And how are they going to accommodate and price i5s into that line up with i3 nipping at its heels in multithreaded apllications ?

 

[RejZoR]

There is no way in hell Core i3 will come with 8 threads. Unless they'll clock it really low. Or lock it from overclocking.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

There is no way in hell Core i3 will come with 8 threads. Unless they'll clock it really low. Or lock it from overclocking.

i dont know, its possible
Old Setup i3 2c 4t / i5 4c 4t / i7 4c 8t
New Setup i3 4c 8t / i5 6c 6t / i7 6c 12t

perfectly acceptable

 

[Nihilus]

8 threads at 4.0 ghz.

So basically an i7 7800!

 

[_JP_]

i dont know its possible
Old Setup i3 2c 4t / i5 4c 4t / i7 4c 8t
New Setup i3 4c 8t / i5 6c 6t / i7 6c 12t

perfectly acceptable

And it would be about time for this to happen!

 

[Frick]

i dont know its possible
Old Setup i3 2c 4t / i5 4c 4t / i7 4c 8t
New Setup i3 4c 8t / i5 6c 6t / i7 6c 12t

perfectly acceptable

The i5 would be really strange in that lineup. In heavily multithreaded apps the i3 would best it. But it's Intel, I wouldn't be surprised if they made i5s identical to i3 except they have boost. Just to make things more confusing. Moar cores/$ is good, but I would hate shopping for CPUs.

 

[Parn]

The i5 would be really strange in that lineup. In heavily multithreaded apps the i3 would best it. But it's Intel, I wouldn't be surprised if they made i5s identical to i3 except they have boost. Just to make things more confusing. Moar cores/$ is good, but I would hate shopping for CPUs.

For the laptop versions of i3 and i5, Intel have already been doing this. i3Us are 2c/4t no boost whereas i5Us are 2c/4t with boost.

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.

 

[P4-630]

If that's the case I wouldn't mind taking an 8-thread 4GHz i3! LOL
The downside is these 8xxx don't seem to run in Z170 motherboards now do they?

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......
You won't be able to get updates anymore on windows 8.1....

 

[ShurikN]

i dont know, its possible

New Setup i3 4c 8t / i5 6c 6t / i7 6c 12t

perfectly acceptable

And with that, Intel just killed the entire i5 lineup. Not gonna happen.
It'll probably be like this:
i3 - 4c/4t
i5 - 6c/6t
i7 - 6c/12t

 

[P4-630]

And with that, Intel just killed the entire i5 lineup. Not gonna happen.
It'll probably be like this:
i3 - 4c/4t
i5 - 6c/6t
i7 - 6c/12t

I think so.

 

[XiGMAKiD]

I hope it's true, please be true

But if it's true, what's the catch?

 

[champsilva]

Based on what I have read the consensus seems to be that this is fake. Intel would be cannibalizing itself to offer it. Four cores/four threads would be more likely.

Exactly.

This is a 4790/4790k

 

[Imsochobo]

The i5 would be really strange in that lineup. In heavily multithreaded apps the i3 would best it. But it's Intel, I wouldn't be surprised if they made i5s identical to i3 except they have boost. Just to make things more confusing. Moar cores/$ is good, but I would hate shopping for CPUs.

less cache maybe, no VT functions and cannibalized by reducing features is an option.
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.

 

[micropage7]

nice but i wait for futher more

 

[R0H1T]

less cache maybe, no VT functions and cannibalized by reducing features is an option.
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.

This isn;t SKLx it has the same cache as KBL & SKL, just a six core SKL basically, if there;s an i3 with 4c/8t I bet it'll be nothing short of $200 & won't be unlocked IMO.

 

[jabbadap]

i dont know, its possible
Old Setup i3 2c 4t / i5 4c 4t / i7 4c 8t
New Setup i3 4c 8t / i5 6c 6t / i7 6c 12t

perfectly acceptable

If that so wonder if there's unclocked i3, coming. At least there is four core K processor on their roadmap:

Spoiler: Intel roadmap

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.

 

[Enterprise24]

From Videocardz https://videocardz.com/71647/intel-core-i3-8300-spotted-with-four-cores-and-eight-threads

Update: According to the poster from NGA, the original image is from Tieba Baidu, in other words, it might be fake.

 

[Frick]

Honestly I think Intel should make a gaming series. Like iG or iX or iZ or something. i1. Whatever. It would consist of:

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.

 

[silentbogo]

Hyperthreaded 4C? No way.
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:

Core i3 8300,4C8T, 4G, no Core frequency, TDP unknown, the authenticity to be confirmed

Suspiciously looks like i7-6700K's evil twin brother.

It'll probably be like this:
i3 - 4c/4t
i5 - 6c/6t
i7 - 6c/12t

That's a more proper speculation