Intel Core i7 8700HQ leaked specs

[JAKEBAB]

4 hours ago, Eroda said:

intel fanbois should be thanking AMD for making intel actually make compelling products , if ryzen was a flop you think intel would have release a 6 core mainstyream CPU??? i fkn doubt it

Wasn't on their roadmap or anything

 

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/235664-leaked-roadmap-claims-intel-will-bring-six-core-chips-to-mainstream-pcs-with-upcoming-coffee-lake

[Bit_Guardian]

17 hours ago, Eroda said:

intel fanbois should be thanking AMD for making intel actually make compelling products , if ryzen was a flop you think intel would have release a 6 core mainstyream CPU??? i fkn doubt it

Yes. Die maps are finalized roughly 2 years in advance. Coffee Lake is in no way a reaction to Ryzen.

[Taf the Ghost]

21 minutes ago, Bit_Guardian said:

Yes. Die maps are finalized roughly 2 years in advance. Coffee Lake is in no way a reaction to Ryzen.

Coffee Lake the generation wasn't, but the 6c design more than likely was. 14nm++ wasn't supposed to happen, but it turned out a lot better than 10nm, which was already behind schedule in 2015. Zen was already taped out by the time they'd have design locked Coffee Lake, so Intel would have known it'd be a 4c vs 8c generation. 

 

The real question, which we'll have answered in a few months, is why the few Desktop SKUs for Coffee Lake were moved up by 5 months when the chipset wasn't ready.

[Bit_Guardian]

2 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Coffee Lake the generation wasn't, but the 6c design more than likely was. 14nm++ wasn't supposed to happen, but it turned out a lot better than 10nm, which was already behind schedule in 2015. Zen was already taped out by the time they'd have design locked Coffee Lake, so Intel would have known it'd be a 4c vs 8c generation. 

 

The real question, which we'll have answered in a few months, is why the few Desktop SKUs for Coffee Lake were moved up by 5 months when the chipset wasn't ready.

It's not that 14++ is better than 10 across the board. 10 has massive power savings for everything, but the super high clocks like 4.7GHz are not going to happen on the first spin of that node.

 

You also have to remember Intel would have been planning to fight slumping sales in a declining PC market. Coffee Lake woke a ton of the Sandy Bridge crowd back into buying. It was still a big success on that front. However, the fact remains Ryzen proved better than Intel anticipated. Hence ICL 8C mainstream incoming and a rapidly explained Z390.

 

They weren't moved up. The second chipset was a direct reaction to the threat of Ryzen, as it was needed for supporting the Ice Lake 8C mainstream chips.

[79wjd]

14 hours ago, Tedny said:

16 PCIe lines, it can make a lot of problems with speed wifi 

Ummmmm.....no? Especially since WiFi cards are generally always handled by the chipset and thus use none of those 16 lanes (and virtually all are running at 2.0x4).

[DogGunn]

How long after the release of the CPUs does it take for them to be found in laptops?

[sof006]

6 cores in a laptop processor, interesting. Wondering what AMD will bring with their mobile processors.

[Sniperfox47]

On 12/19/2017 at 9:24 AM, yolosnail said:

The 7700HQ had 20 PCIe lanes?

16

On 12/19/2017 at 9:32 AM, Oshino Shinobu said:

Nope, it has a max of 16 lanes. Must be an error on those images. 

 

https://ark.intel.com/products/97185/Intel-Core-i7-7700HQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

 

Maybe the 8700HQ has 20 lanes and it was meant to be under that. 

Or more likely they just confused the chipset lanes with the CPU lanes. The CM238 chipset supports 20 PCIe lanes.

 

On 12/19/2017 at 2:43 PM, Tedny said:

16 PCIe lines, it can make a lot of problems with speed wifi 

Keep in mind that it's an HQ processor, which means an external chipset. The 16 lanes from the CPU will go to the PCIe Graphics Interface for a GPU/GPUs or to thunderbolt 3, and the wifi and SSD will be run on the chipset's lanes.

[DogGunn]

So to those in here that get it, is the 8700HQ an upgrade worth waiting for over the 7700HQ?

[Bit_Guardian]

1 minute ago, DogGunn said:

So to those in here that get it, is the 8700HQ an upgrade worth waiting for over the 7700HQ?

Assuming the higher core count is good for your workload, yes.