Retailer confirms October 5 date for 6-core Coffee Lake processors

[lobster_zoidberg]

https://www.pcauthority.com.au/news/retailer-confirms-october-5-date-for-6-core-coffee-lake-processors-472901

 

A German site has posted a screenshot of a stock-order, via Reddit - it's a slightly torturous chain of evidence, but it looks legit - that shows a likely launch date of October 5 for Intel's six-core Coffee Lake processors.

What we're looking at is the Core i7 8700K and 8700, both with six cores, 12 threads, and a 12MB L3 cache. The 8700K has a base clock of 3.7GHz, and a single-core/multi-core boost of 4.7GHz and 4.3GHz respectively, and a TDP of 95 Watts.

The 8700, on the other hand, clocks in at 3.2GHZ base, 4.6GHz/4.3GHz boosted, and with a 65 Watt TDP.

[themctipers]

hype

 

oh please intel, deliver on this 11% better IPC

in reality: 1-2% more, whoops

[（嗜杀本性）狼队 女 梅]

14 minutes ago, themctipers said:

hype

 

oh please intel, deliver on this 11% better IPC

in reality: 1-2% more, whoops

:feelsbadman: I am a sellout, I am waiting for the I9 8th generation chip with hyperthreading and hopefully overclocking, Or I might wait for the new gen GPU's since Volta is coming out 2080 ti soon(TM) 

[Rune]

Have a 6850k running at 4.7. Unless these also clock to that or better, I'll probably stick. Don't need 40 pcie lanes anymore, but its nice having 6 cores that run hella fast.

[Cyracus]

22 minutes ago, themctipers said:

hype

 

oh please intel, deliver on this 11% better IPC

in reality: 1-2% more, whoops

I hear the multi threaded performance is ~50% better than the 7th gen... 

[Mooshi]

Bit too late there, Intel. GF got my 6700k and your 7700k was a lazy AF update with mayo under the IHS lol

[colejohnson66]

That's not Coffee Lake. 8th generation processors are just updated Kaby Lakes. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/intel-first-8th-generation-processors-are-just-updated-7th-generation-chips/

[（嗜杀本性）狼队 女 梅]

15 minutes ago, colejohnson66 said:

That's not Coffee Lake. 8th generation processors are just updated Kaby Lakes. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/intel-first-8th-generation-processors-are-just-updated-7th-generation-chips/

I've seen that yea, But "Coffer lake" and "Kaby" Are code names before they get the actual names such as I7 5660 XE etc, 

[MageTank]

1 hour ago, themctipers said:

hype

 

oh please intel, deliver on this 11% better IPC

in reality: 1-2% more, whoops

In reality, 0%, because there is no IPC boost coming with Coffee Lake. It's Skylake 3.0. 

[mr moose]

2 hours ago, MageTank said:

In reality, 0%, because there is no IPC boost coming with Coffee Lake. It's Skylake 3.0. 

I predict an increase in ryzen sales on the 6th oct.

[IAEInferno]

My wallet or bank account might not be ready but my body is.

[Terryv]

I assume the multi core boost is a 6 core boost?

[Coaxialgamer]

6 hours ago, themctipers said:

hype

 

oh please intel, deliver on this 11% better IPC

in reality: 1-2% more, whoops

There won't be any IPC improvement . It's basically a 6 core kaby lake.

[lobster_zoidberg]

maybe so but it will cause 7 series price cuts

[NumLock21]

5 hours ago, mr moose said:

I predict an increase in ryzen sales on the 6th oct.

I predict, Intel doing a permature celebration, with a round of miniture golf on Oct 4th.

[Jito463]

2 hours ago, anthonyjc2010 said:

This is not Covfefe Lake. It is KabyLake+, a refresh of KabyLake.

Which itself is just a refresh of Skylake.

[Drak3]

24 minutes ago, Jito463 said:

Which itself is just a refresh of Skylake.

Which is a refinement of Broadwell, which was a die shrink of Haswell.

 

I look forward to Mini Haswell 2.0.2

[Jito463]

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

Which is a refinement of Broadwell, which was a die shrink of Haswell.

 

I look forward to Mini Haswell 2.0.2

True enough.  There hasn't been any major innovations from Intel on the CPU side since Haswell.

[Misanthrope]

If the 8600k is a 6/6 chip they'll be little reason to buy the 8700k at 6/12. Cores matter more but if you need more cores and less IPC then the 1700 still runs away at 8/16.

 

For gamers 6/6 at very high clocks should be enough with no noticeable difference with the 8700k. 

[Dylanc1500]

17 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Which is a refinement of Broadwell, which was a die shrink of Haswell.

 

I look forward to Mini Haswell 2.0.2

Which all have core structures not dissimilar from the 386. So I guess you could say they are packages with tiny hopped up 386s in them.

[Drak3]

23 minutes ago, Dylanc1500 said:

Which all have core structures not dissimilar from the 386. So I guess you could say they are packages with tiny hopped up 386s in them.

No. Mini Haswell.

Because mocking and devaluing Broadwell+ is fun.

[Dylanc1500]

5 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

No. Mini Haswell.

Because mocking and devaluing Broadwell+ is fun.

I know, I'm old school and think it's funny that the underlying structure hasn't really changed, as when they tried (pentium 4) they failed and went back.

[Jito463]

1 hour ago, Dylanc1500 said:

I know, I'm old school and think it's funny that the underlying structure hasn't really changed, as when they tried (pentium 4) they failed and went back.

To be fair, Netburst was fine for specific applications (where path prediction wouldn't be an issue), just horrible for general computing and gaming (especially gaming).

[Dylanc1500]

3 hours ago, Jito463 said:

To be fair, Netburst was fine for specific applications (where path prediction wouldn't be an issue), just horrible for general computing and gaming (especially gaming).

I know, but most people don't understand that. I will give them this though, at least they were attempting to try something new. It is what brought us their first form of SMT. Who knows, maybe they'll hit their dream of 10ghz. That's a long pipe dream though....

[Okjoek]

Nobody cares because we all got Ryzen 5,7 CPUs already.