Intel 8 Core, 16 Thread Coffee Lake-S CPU Spotted Again - Lets call it a Core i7 8800K
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sverek
I don't see a reason for this 8 Core CPU.
For exclusive gaming, 8700k@5GHz is enough. Buying 8 Core for gaming and hoping it will last longer is meaningless.
Ryzen/TR already covered overall performance department, there no place for it in working machines. (unless there are Intel depended software)
nevcairiel
For someone that games and does work on the same PC, I like a CPU with balance between peak ST performance and some multi-threaded power. As might people that stream their gaming, for example.
An 8 core that can reach 1-2core peaks of 5GHz and all-core > 4.5 still (or maybe even OC to all core 5?), that might be something I might get. Well, maybe in 2 generations when my CPU has run its course and I don't feel like getting HEDT again.
Not everyone is "exclusive gaming", or "exclusive workstation". I'm sure there is a whole bunch of people that do both - not to mention the streamers mentioned above that may benefit from more cores for higher quality video streaming.
spine
"....Intel has been working on a Coffee lake based 8-cores and a 16-threads processor for ages now. ...engineering sample that is purring at a rather low 2.60 GHz base clock, but here I like to add .. engineering sample one more time."
How much more time exactly?
This is going to clock worse than a 8086K/8700K.
BadAssMusician
I'd probably reckon that this may even class as a Core i9 or maybe more likely a Xeon based Processor or meant for a new LGA 20XX socket.
Battlefieldprin
not very optimistic about the processor temperature since even the 8700K does not satisfy in this regard. Thus, what we have here is basically is more cores with the same design. Hope it is not just another fail I9.
-Tj-
Meh.. not impressed. Waiting for Icelake, if its going to be that cpu to get. Otherwise bye bye Intel.
toyo
If they keep the 95W TDP, something will have to give, like the all-core turbo going down from 4.3GHz to like 4.1GHz, if we're lucky. On a stock CPU this could lead to some weird situations where some games might run faster on a 8700K instead.
Also I don't see how this can work on all Z370 boards. Mine has just 6 cheap phases, for example, and there are even worse models. Sure I can OC to 5GHz, but I'm pretty sure those VRMs get toasty as hell. I mean, I guess I could stick a 8 core 8800K or whatever it will be called, but I don't see my motherboard being happy with running prime95 with AVX for example on it. Or it would have to downclock so much to remain in TDP.
All in all, I don't think Intel will want to deal with flimsy motherboards running the 8 core monster.
The Nonlocalist
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Wait, isn’t intel working on affordable 8/16 for almost a decade now???
Had this 6years ago...
Embra
There 8/16 core becomes more affordable with competition. It's that simple. And affordable remains to be seen until released and mobo costs.
TLD LARS
Yogi
Can someone explain a valid reason for the Z390 chipset to me?
JamesSneed
@The Nonlocalist they did put out a 8 core Xeon (Beckton) in 2010 and a 8 core desktop part aka the i7-5960X in 2014. So yes they could make 8 cores for close to a decade.
JamesSneed
ruthan
Possibility of choice is always good, if Intel really want give us something good, there is still room - more than 16 PCI-E lines for peasants with normal desktop boards and cpus..
schmidtbag
Ricepudding
nevcairiel
wavetrex
I disagree with the name 8800K
The correct name should be 80286K ... 😎
Yogi
The Nonlocalist
It has USB 3.1 G2 so 10Gbps vs 5 and good built in AC Wifi. Thats all over the prior z370
For a second i read ac and thought to myself intel lost it embedding cooling in the cpu... lmao