Intel announces CoffeeLake i3 U 15w CPU with Turbo Boost and similar specs to KabyLake i7 U CPU

[AlTech]

Intel has announced a new Coffee Lake core i3 U 15 watt Ultra Low Voltage CPU. This new CPU, the i3-8130U, features similar specs to previous generation core i7-7600U except for the lower clockspeeds.

 

Yes, an i3 with similar specs to a 1 generation old i7. What a time to be a PC Enthusiast .

 

The i3-8130U is a dual core Hyperthreaded CPU with Turbo Boost 2.0 . Oh well, I guess Linus needs to re-do the i3, i5 and i7 techquickie yet again .

 

Core i3 CPUs have traditionally never had Turbo Boost enabled as a deliberate feature. And consumers wanting it would need to purchase a core i5 CPU. Alas this no longer seems to be the case on laptops.

 

The i3-8130U marks the first Coffee Lake core i3 CPU and I expect it to have a tray price of between $130 USD and $170 USD.

 

It would be interesting to see how many Execution Units the iGPU on the 8130U has enabled as traditionally i3 CPUs have had fewer enabled EUs.

 

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Intel has officially announced their latest Core i3-8130U mobility processor and also listed 10nm Cannonlake-U CPUs on their site. The new processors will be aiming at the mobility platforms in ultra low power products such as thin and light laptops and 2 in 1s.

 

There are two things to talk about here so let’s start off with the new Core i3 chip. The Core i3-8130U is a dual core with four threads. The chip is clocked at a base frequency of 2.20 GHz and a boost frequency of 3.40 GHz across all cores. The chip features 4 MB of L3 cache and has support for either 2400 MHz DDR4 or 2133 MHz LPDDR3 memory. On the graphics side, the chip features the Intel UHD Graphics 620 chipset which runs at a idle clock of 300 MHz and max clock of 1.0 GHz.

 

So yeah, I was wondering where the i3 Coffee Lake U lineup was and now we know. Although it would be interesting to know why there are no Coffee Lake U CPUs with Iris Graphics.

 

Source:

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i3-8130u-announcement-and-10nm-cannonlake-cpus-listed/

[Jurrunio]

i3 with boost clock, that's new.

 

Pretty much just i7-6650U with new iGPU. Nothing surprising here.

[AlTech]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

i3 with boost clock, that's new.

 

Pretty much just i7-6650U with new iGPU. Nothing surprising here.

Not necessarily a new iGPU but a different iGPU.

 

And yes it is surprising because Intel customers are not used to getting screwed over this badly within a few generations of their CPU coming out.

 

Edit: Also this has no eDRAM and no other stuff to support it meaning this probably isn't using an i7-6650U die and the clockspeeds are probably co-incidental.

[seon123]

16 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Intel has announced a new Coffee Lake core i3 U 15 watt Ultra Low Voltage CPU

Wasn't the 8000-series mobile chips a new version of Kaby? Kaby Lake R?

 

Anyway, I guess "Don't buy Kaby" extends to mobile now

Edited February 15, 2018 by seon123
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[Jurrunio]

15 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

eDRAM

hmm, so cannot upgrade RAM?

[AlTech]

13 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

hmm, so cannot upgrade RAM?

No. Iris and Iris Pro graphics use either 64MB or 128MB of eDRAM (which acts as L4 Cache) .

 

For simplicty's sake, eDRAM has nothing to do with RAM in PCs. They are not tied to one another.

[Trixanity]

The tray price is $281. Yeah, that's right. It costs $17 less than the quad core i5. 

 

This move was the natural progression after i5 and i7 were bumped to quad core. According to Anandtech i3s, despite being absolute crap, have always been within spitting distance of i5 in price. When I say crap I mean crippled to the point it makes no sense to not jump to i5. I'm sure it's intentional. This time you might see the i3 win in single threaded workloads though.

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

This time you might see the i3 win in single threaded workloads though.

 

single threaded workload will allow the single core to boost as high as it could, which is the same for the i3 and 8250u. They wont be different here.

[AlTech]

34 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

The tray price is $281. Yeah, that's right. It costs $17 less than the quad core i5. 

 

This move was the natural progression after i5 and i7 were bumped to quad core. According to Anandtech i3s, despite being absolute crap, have always been within spitting distance of i5 in price. When I say crap I mean crippled to the point it makes no sense to not jump to i5. I'm sure it's intentional. This time you might see the i3 win in single threaded workloads though.

That's so stupid though. It's outrageously overpriced and isn't actually viable for OEMs to use in budget laptops unless those OEMs are price gauging their i5 and i7 models.

[mr moose]

I don't know about anyone else, but when I walk in to big box stores I see rows and rows of laptops and about 3 desktops.  It makes sense that Intel would release as many different variants of mobile as they could while the market demands it.

[Trixanity]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

single threaded workload will allow the single core to boost as high as it could, which is the same for the i3 and 8250u. They wont be different here.

Depends on the workload. The i5 will throttle sooner and the i3 has a much higher base clocks. There will be scenarios where the i3 will be faster. That's what I'm trying to say. I'll grant you that I thought the i3 had 100-200 MHz on the i5 which is not the case.

We'll be seeing situations where thermal or power throttling will skew results.