Should I be more excited for Coffee lake or cannon lake?

[Okjoek]

I'm a bit confused by the future roadmap for Intel. If I'm not mistaken both of these product lines are launching later this year. One is yet another 14nm refinement, the other a 10nm processor. 

 

What on earth am I supposed to be more interested in as someone who loves a good quad core CPU for gaming, media, communication, shopping and browsing?

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2 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

What on earth am I supposed to be more interested in as someone who loves a good quad core CPU for gaming, media, communication, shopping and browsing?

To answer your question, ryzen (Pretty much every other reply on here).

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

i worry coffee lake will be a bit jittery

[PCGuy_5960]

5 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

What on earth am I supposed to be more interested in as someone who loves a good quad core CPU for gaming, media, communication, shopping and browsing?

Both Coffeelake and Cannonlake will be 6 core 12 thread CPUs with higher clocks and better IPC

[asand1]

If they don't price competitively wit Ryzen, neither.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Both Coffeelake and Cannonlake will be 6 core 12 thread CPUs with higher clocks and better IPC

Probably not

 

The rumors are that coffeelake will be a 14nn 6 core desktop(and maybe laptop) part on 14nm

 

Cannon lake will be a dual core ultra low power mobile part on 10nm until yeilds get better.

[Okjoek]

6 minutes ago, Vespertine said:

To answer your question, ryzen (Pretty much every other reply on here).

I'm curious how will Ryzen 3 be performance / Watt next to an i5 7400 let alone whatever Coffee/Cannon lake has for entry-level quad core. 

 

R3 to i5 is a 50 dollar jump currently and with R3 out there I can't see that growing. And a 50 dollar price difference can be made up from power bills over its service life if it's efficient enough. 

 

And then there's the performance at which Intel fans have been touting the "higher IPC" of 7th gen alone.

 

If a CPU costs ~50 dollars more, but has much higher performance and greater power efficiency should I still get Ryzen? It feels a bit like comparing my Ivy Bridge i5 to a cheaper FM2+ CPU.

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10 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

I'm curious how will Ryzen 3 be performance / Watt next to an i5 7400 let alone whatever Coffee/Cannon lake has for entry-level quad core. 

 

R3 to i5 is a 50 dollar jump currently and with R3 out there I can't see that growing. And a 50 dollar price difference can be made up from power bills over its service life if it's efficient enough. 

 

And then there's the performance at which Intel fans have been touting the "higher IPC" of 7th gen alone.

 

If a CPU costs ~50 dollars more, but has much higher performance and greater power efficiency should I still get Ryzen? It feels a bit like comparing my Ivy Bridge i5 to a cheaper FM2+ CPU.

That comparison doesn't make sense in my eyes, sure 7th gen has good IPC, but so does ryzen? And considering you are comparing it with power costs, I'm not sure the difference would be as significant to make up for the price difference. I don't know the MSRP of the new coffee/cannon lake chips, but it sure will be more than 50$, meaning it is not even logical to compare those two chips.