Why Doesn't Intel Make A K Series i3?

[Chugle]

I mean, they made a K series Pentium, i5, and i7. It's not like it would defeat the purpose of having a K series Pentium like many people say. You'd have the Pentium with 2 cores and no hyper-threading, then the i3 with 2 cores and hyper-threading, then the i5 with 4 cores and no hyper-threading, and then the i7 with 4-8 cores and 8-16 threads. 

[TheSLSAMG]

It would cannibalize the i5 lineup. Near i5 performance at an i3 price, Intel aren't looking to lose a lot of money here. The G3258 was fine because it was a shit chip to start with, so overclocking is like putting whipped cream and a cherry on top of shit.

[007agentHP]

it would kill the locked i5 series

[minibois]

It would mean RIP i5.

Pentium Anniversary did not defeat the purpose for i5's, since it was only a dual core

i3's would be too close to i5 CPU's, because it's a dual with hyperthreading so 4 threads..

[Thebman712]

 yeah it would kill the i5 and i5k

 

it would be the i3 and i7 show rather than the kinda just i5 and kinda i7 show

[Chugle]

It'd still only have 2 cores though, and as games become more demanding, hyper-threading on a dual core just won't cut it. 

[Trik'Stari]

It'd still only have 2 cores though, and as games become more demanding, hyper-threading on a dual core just won't cut it. 

I think that dual core probably overclocks better than quad core. 

[SImoHayha]

It'd still only have 2 cores though, and as games become more demanding, hyper-threading on a dual core just won't cut it. 

Well that doesn't matter it helps pretend it's a " Quad Core" when it really isn't so that way people can play games that require four cores.

[CydiaDash]

The pentium G3258 was only released because it was the 20th anniversary of the series. 

[AMICLG]

People would no longer buy the K series i5 for gaming then.

[typographie]

It'd still only have 2 cores though, and as games become more demanding, hyper-threading on a dual core just won't cut it. 

 

From all the forum hype, you'd think we'll all need 5960X's in a few months. A hyperthreaded, overclocked dual-core would probably beat (or at least compete aggressively with) a same-gen, stock Core i5 in most actual games.

[IMPERIUS]

Why would anyone buy a fast 2 core instead of a fast enough 4 core?

[TheSLSAMG]

It'd still only have 2 cores though, and as games become more demanding, hyper-threading on a dual core just won't cut it. 

Hyper-Threading helps a lot more than you know. Right now, an i3 and an i5 are within 3-5FPS in most titles, with a smaller gap in a lot of them. Overclocking an i3 would supplant an i5 easy, you can even do the testing if you have an i7 since you can disable cores and threads on an i7. I could run my chip as a dual core, quad thread chip if I wanted to and match the clockspeeds to any Haswell i3 on the market and my performance would be within a margin of error the same.

[typographie]

More to the point is that the i3 in it's stock, locked configuration is already very competitive with AMD's entire desktop lineup. That's not much competitive pressure on Intel to improve it.

[Sintezza]

Because it doesnt make sense.

[LogicalDrm]

K doesn't equal hyperthreading. It means that you'd have unlocked CPU multiplier. Which eventually doesn't make sense in i3 series. Those are aimed as low power, decent performance options for light builds like HTPCs and light office use.

[Prysin]

It'd still only have 2 cores though, and as games become more demanding, hyper-threading on a dual core just won't cut it. 

If you could OC those i3's to 4.X GHz, it would be like a G3258 overdosing on roids.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Have any of you guys tried to do anything on an I3 when it's under even one core full load? It's an utter fiasco. Sure it would be almost ok for most games, but for literally everything else on the planet it's a terrible idea. That said they basically are making k series I3s because all chips will support bus overclocking and bus rates are now decoupled from everything else so you can go ham on them. The only possible limitation is voltage but I guarantee you mobo makers and/or just smart people will find ways to use the offset to trick the cpu into thinking that's what it's getting when really it's getting a lot more (if you don't believe this is possible for a while before bios updates it was a required step for broadwell overclocking.)

[itachipirate]

Then nobody would have to buy their overpriced K series i5 for any kind of decent performance while also having the option to overclock

(The Pentium anniversary is crap)

[Chugle]

K doesn't equal hyperthreading. It means that you'd have unlocked CPU multiplier. Which eventually doesn't make sense in i3 series. Those are aimed as low power, decent performance options for light builds like HTPCs and light office use.

I never said it did...

[NEMESlS]

i3's used to be overclockable but they were also only 2 core CPU's with no HT, in that same gen there were 2 core i5's...

[LogicalDrm]

I never said it did...

Thats how your OP looks like when you only talk about hyperthreading related to titles K-marking.

[Hieb]

Because unlocked i3s would severely impact the lower end i5 sales. If you compare right now the top i3s to the bottom i5s (e.g. i3-4370 to i5-4440) the performance gap is already quite small. The i3 outperforms it in single-threaded and falls not too far behind in multi-threaded. Now imagine if you could run the i3 at 4.5+ GHz... yeah say goodbye to the locked i5s.

[lightningterror]

If i were intel i would release i3 k series on old gen. Probably 1-2 gens back at the same time a new gen is released.

[alicskysareblue]

Why would anyone buy a fast 2 core instead of a fast enough 4 core?

lots of reasons cheaper has hyper threading and not everyone wants or needs a really powerful cpu. I wish I had bought a locked processor mine is haswell based and really sucks at over clocking