i5-8400 clocked lower than Kaby Lake’s 7400?

[xDyl]

So, I am planning on buying an i5, but I want to know, why would intel get rid of an i5-7500 follow up, and release the i5-8400 that is clocked at 2.8GHz? The i5-7400 was 3.0GHz. It almost is convincing me just to buy the i5-8600K, even though I won’t overclock.

[Zeitec]

From what I hear, they'll be rounding out the full lineup with pentiums and other miscellaneous chips later in 2017 or early 2018. 

[xDyl]

1 minute ago, Zeitec said:

From what I hear, they'll be rounding out the full lineup with pentiums and other miscellaneous chips later in 2017 or early 2018. 

Like the i5-8500? Or was that chip skipped?

[Fardin]

iirc it has all core turbo up to 3.8 ghz  

[Zeitec]

Just now, xDyl said:

Like the i5-8500? Or was that chip skipped?

They'll probably make an 8500, an 8300, and a couple Pentium chips. 

[That_PC_Kid]

It's because the 8400 has 6 cores which will draw more power than the 4 core 7400.

[tp95112]

Its cause they rather have you purchase the more expensive chips instead. Just gotta hope the IPC would make up for the significantly lower clock speed.8400 wouldn't be a bad chip if it was clocked ~3.2. Boost of 4.0 make up for it.

[Damascus]

It goes significantly higher on boost and has 6c.

[thorhammerz]

1 hour ago, tp95112 said:

Its cause they rather have you purchase the more expensive chips instead. 

This, plus they also probably haven't finished binning all their production batches just yet (when looking at the specs for the various locked SKU's of the same i3/i5 generation, the only difference is usually just a slight clock speed offset released a little later after the main SKUs).

 

Those that don't QUITE make the cut as a regular locked i3/i5 are then sold as a lower-number SKU instead. Intel is just applying the same binning process (to determine Xeon/i9/i7/i5/i3/etc quality) to each tier instead.

[brob]

On 9/25/2017 at 11:58 PM, xDyl said:

So, I am planning on buying an i5, but I want to know, why would intel get rid of an i5-7500 follow up, and release the i5-8400 that is clocked at 2.8GHz? The i5-7400 was 3.0GHz. It almost is convincing me just to buy the i5-8600K, even though I won’t overclock.

More cores, more cache, higher stock memory speed, and top turbo is 500MHz higher (4GHz) for the i5-8400, https://ark.intel.com/compare/97147,126687. 

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

It's a lower clock because it has more cores, there has to be a sacrifice made somewhere. Also next year Q1 the rest of the Coffee Lake processors will come out. This is just the launch.