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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I moved from an 2500k @ 5ghz to this 6700k and i have @stock double the fps that i had at 5ghz with that 2500k while playing GW2 in crowded areas. It all depends on what you're playing.
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Fallout 4 is a bad game engine. RoTR is just fine on a i7. Yes 4 cores are becoming inadequate however they will still be viable gaming CPU's for a while still.
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For now is more than enough. In the future, i really don´t know. In case more cores are needed it would be cool to have a CPU that i can simply slot in my system instead of having to buy a new MB and RAM. Simple as that.
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Having a 1080 you sure saw difference. I had a R9 270X and was hoping to get an RX570. I wouldn't notice a single frame difference between 2500k and 6700k.
Battlefield 1 also uses well past 4 cores. Give him 8 cores and it will use them all.
i7 choke on that game.
No, it is not. Specially if you wanna stream/record. Plenty of games can use more than 4 cores. You bought intel so you're ****ed: want a new CPU? buy a new motherboard. As for DDR4, the next gen is still some time away.
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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.
Rise of the tombraider and fallout 4 would like to disagre with you , i se RoTB max out my i5 4460 in a lot of instances , same for fallout 4 , so no 4 cores are not enough for gaming , and that's only two of the games i play , i am pretty shure there are more who enjoy more cores.