Intel Bringing 8 Core to Coffee Lake. Possibly.

[Orcblood]

With the on going pressure of AMD's Zen based processors it looks as if Intel has decided to bring an 8 core CPU to the mainstream market. This was originally posted by a redditor (thanks ExtremeTech for further bringing attention) which gives no link to where he got the screenshots so the usually advice of "take it with a grain of salt" applies. I however see this as highly possible as Intel does not currently have an 8 core CPU for current gen and really needs something to compete with the Ryzen 7 series of CPUs especially with Zen+ that is soon to released this week. The real question to me is how soon will Intel bring this about. It is believed that it will most likely be release as a Coffee Lake SKU as it is titled "8th gen" and may work on any 300 series boards though extreme tech questions that.

 

I've already pre-ordered the 2700x so this doesn't matter much to me, but should be great for those who decide to holdout as Intel has proven to hold higher performance with the current released 8th gen CPUs which is no doubt aided by the higher clocks Intel can achieve.

 

Extreme Tech:

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Ever since before Coffee Lake debuted, there have been rumors of an eight-core variant that would be paired with a new Z390 chipset and launch at some point after the six-core variant hit shelves. Since that point in time, there’s been additional data suggesting that the Z390 chipset is real, and now, reason to think there are indeed eight-core Coffee Lake CPUs on the way.

Reddit turned up the mentions to an eight-core Coffee Lake CPU; the images in question are below. All three can be clicked to enlarge them. Hat-tip to redditor Dayman56 for finding them.

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The simplest prediction is a Core i7-9700K, but the Z390 motherboard designation might then confuse people who think the Z370 and Z390 share a common compatibility profile when this wouldn’t be the case. It’s also anyone’s guess as to whether current chips like the Core i7-8700K would work in the Z390.

 

Reddit Post:

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There are 3 references of the 8 Core.

Screenshots of the references:

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Screen 2

Screen 3

This is all filed under Coffee Lake S, with no mention of a Coffee Lake R or a refresh, this leads me to believe that this 8 core will still be part of 8th Gen(It literally says 8th Gen at the top of the page) and will work on all 300 series motherboards.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/267618-intel-docs-reference-8-core-coffee-lake-cpu

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/8chmkm/coffee_lake_s_8_core_with_igpu_referenced_in/

 

[Princess Luna]

This is a repost and your title is inaccurate as Intel is not bringing 8 cores to Coffee Lake at all as we all have known for ages already Z390 will be an Ice Lake 10nm ready motherboard for the Ice Lake 9th gen 10nm i7 9700k.

[Orcblood]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

This is a repost and your title is inaccurate as Intel is not bringing 8 cores to Coffee Lake at all as we all have known for ages already Z390 will be an Ice Lake 10nm ready motherboard for the Ice Lake 9th gen 10nm i7 9700k.

Could you link that cause I looked really hard for a previous post. Also this is contradicting that an 8core would first come to 9th gen so this seems news worthy.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, VegetableStu said:

do you sometimes miss being a mod? LOL

Aw come on now... Still too soon for the joke... Mods likes Fluttershy more than Princess Cadence, that was my true down fall

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, jman629 said:

Could you link that cause I looked really hard for a previous post.

Cheers mate.

 

Also it is noteworthy that they did not say the i7 9700k is coffee lake, they just stated Intel won't be a dick for a change and the new chipset and new motherboard will still be LGA 1151v2 keeping its compatibility with current Coffee Lake line up.

[Orcblood]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

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Okay thanks kind sir. I'll leave it to the mods to decide to remove. In the meantime if you have a suggestion on Title change PM to let me know. Hard to please people on this Forum.

[Nicnac]

Nice! Imagine amd adding even more cores in zen 3 ^^