Intel Six Core Lineup exposed - Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8600K
We've been talking and debating intel Coffee Lake for some time now. new information surfaced on the web, including SKU names and base clock frequencies. The big daddy proc would be the Core i7 8700K with a 3.7 Ghz base-clock in a 6c/12t configuration.
Actually Intel would be planning to release four six-core models, two of them get hyper-threading, two will not (Core i5 versus i7). Coffee Lake processors will be fabbed at a 14nm node and would be available on LGA1151 within months. French magazine Canard PC is basing the new information up-on reports that the first samples have been supplied to customers. The top model Core i7-8700K would get a 3.7 base clock (turbo's are not yet known). A non-K model would get a lower 3.2 GHz base clock.
Currently the release lineup looks like this:
Processor | Cores / Threads | Clock speed | Turbo | L3 | TDP |
Core i7-8700K | 6/12 | 3,7GHz | tba | 12MB | 95W |
Core i7-8700 | 6/12 | 3.2GHz | tba | 12MB | 95W |
Core i5-8600K | 6/6 | 3,6GHz | tba | 9MB | 95W |
Core i5-8400 | 6/6 | 2.8GHz | tba | 9MB | 65W |
The Core i5-8600K however would be getting a 3.6 GHz base clock and is an unlocked model. Intel supposedly also will release a Core i5 series with the Core i5-8400 would run at a base of 2.8 Ghz, and is locked. Coffee Lake should be released together with the Z370 / H370 chipsets and logic assumes a release later this year in the Q3 region. Intel 300 series desktop processor motherboard would be based on the current LGA 1151 socket, the SiSoft results already have shown Platform entries.
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It really is, though. At least today. In the future? Who knows. My crystal ball is on strike.
But that doesn't mean we should not innovate. The world doesn't revolve around gaming.
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Year ago, I would buy that 6C/6T on the spot. Today I consider minimum 6C/12T.
And interesting thing will come now. Because there are 2 possibilities:
1) Intel drops prices of 4C/4T & 4C/8T considerably to make space (Considering their 4C/$C pricing on X299, I do not think it will happen.)
2) Intel drops prices of 4C/4T & 4C/8T tiny bit and adds expensive 6C/6T & 6C/12T as options for those willing to pay that extra.
Either way it is bad move. In 1st case it will alienate many people who recently bought those now cheaper chips. And rest will consider price difference as big milking.
In 2nd case, big price for those new chips will not make them as attractive as AMD's.
Especially those locked ones. There is no reason to buy intel's locked ones when AMD offers equal performance at same price with OC-ability. Those unlocked ones may prove to be stronger, but price premium intel asks for unlocked chips ...
And I really wonder if intel improved IPC that much this time, so they can clock them so low.
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So where are all the fanboys saying 4 cores for gaming is enough?
An i5 with 6 cores? How intel has changed this year...
My 2500k is still running strong, haven't even pushed more than 4.0Ghz on it.
Wont upgrade for less than 6c/16t and everyone knows i7 are overpriced BS so I know where's my money going (for now).
Also, that 8400 at 2.8Ghz...unless it turbos to 4Ghz, it will be in trouble.
I couldn't have said it better myself, why spend twice the amount of money on i7's for a minimal performance gain in games or Ryzen that can barley overclock?
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I don't care about clock speed, but what I do care about is performance. I would actually prefer a higher performance part at a lower clock speed. I think higher clock speeds are the most primitive and simplistic way of achieving higher performance. Eventually you can't manufacture parts on a smaller process, and you can't practically deal with the excess heat produced by simply upping the clocks. I can't think of an Intel part that didn't perform better than the previous generation at the same clock speed.
It's not new or uncommon for new architectures to have better performance than previous architectures at the same clock speed. Remember when the Athlon64 came along and had much better performance than Intel's Pentium D at lower clocks, then Core2 came along and had much better performance than Athlon64 at lower clocks.
Megahertz has been a marketing gimmick. AMD tried to move away from it with their AthlonXP chips, using names like "3200+" for a 2.2Ghz part. AMD claimed their architecture was different than Intel's and couldn't be compared using just clock speed. They were right, and the same applies to different architectures within the Intel family.
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So where are all the fanboys saying 4 cores for gaming is enough?
An i5 with 6 cores? How intel has changed this year...
My 2500k is still running strong, haven't even pushed more than 4.0Ghz on it.
Wont upgrade for less than 6c/16t and everyone knows i7 are overpriced BS so I know where's my money going (for now).
Also, that 8400 at 2.8Ghz...unless it turbos to 4Ghz, it will be in trouble.