Kaby Lake R vs Coffee Lake

[Uber Hamburgler]

Ok, so these are both based on the 14++ nm process, both are architecturally identical to Skylake and regular Kaby Lake.  Both include identical designs to previous generations (Coffee Lake i3 is the same spec as Skylake i5, Kaby Lake R is the same as Skylake-H i7).  So why do they have different names, I'm struggling to figure this out and it's triggering my autism.  Is it just Intel's marketing intentionally trying to be confusing as usual?

 

Edit:  I know the products are targeted at different TDP ranges, but they've never segmented like this before.

[knightslugger]

1 minute ago, Uber Hamburgler said:

and it's triggering my autism

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

[stealth80]

Well they do have slight differences

 

Skylake X - X299 Ethusiast

Kabylake X - X299 Step up program

 

Skylake 6700k/Kaby Lake 7700k - same architecture, slightly better clocks on KB - Highend

 

Coffeelake - Shit, AMD caught us with out pants down, lets quickly release the product we should have released 3 generations ago, but instead milked more $$$ out of 4 core and 4c/8t CPU's

[Jurrunio]

Kaby Lake Refresh uses 14nm+ while Coffee Lake uses 14nm++. You got it wrong.

[emosun]

5 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

it means he's too dumb to realize some people actually do have autism , and that implying you have it when you don't just simply for comedic effect is a tasteless thing to do.

[NumLock21]

Kaby Lake R is for mobile.

My 8250U KB-R with the latest version of cpu-z, it detects as Coffee Lake.

[Uber Hamburgler]

On 1/25/2018 at 5:10 PM, NumLock21 said:

Kaby Lake R is for mobile.

My 8250U KB-R with the latest version of cpu-z, it detects as Coffee Lake.

I know that, it just bothers me that they're exactly the same silicon, just with different power delivery. Jurrino got it right though, Kaby Lake R is still on 14nm+, not ++. I was asking precisely because your answer was not satisfactory because they've never used different names for mobile cores. 

[Uber Hamburgler]

On 1/25/2018 at 4:41 PM, emosun said:

it means he's too dumb to realize some people actually do have autism , and that implying you have it when you don't just simply for comedic effect is a tasteless thing to do.

You must be fun to go to comedy clubs with.

[emosun]

6 minutes ago, Uber Hamburgler said:

You must be fun to go to comedy clubs with.

well this isn't a comedy club , and you're no comedian

[dragonhart6505]

To put it simply...they're different generations of CPU. The architecture might be the same, but there are relevant improvements or differences in the newer chips to need a distinguishable branding.

[Yahtadi]

Kaby lake R like i7 8550u. The first quad core intel-U chip
Coffe lake H like i7 8750h. The first six core intel-H chip
Coffe lake U like i7 8669u. The piece of shit U version of coffee lake mobile chip series, (say an upgrade of kaby lake r)
All of them are 8th gen

[daimonie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Lake#Kaby_Lake_Refresh_vs._Coffee_Lake

Seems to be because of the "Oh shit AMD" rush. 

On 1/29/2018 at 10:01 PM, Uber Hamburgler said:

You must be fun to go to comedy clubs with.

And you must not have autism. Meltdowns are not particularly fun or funny. I know that the US president jokes about disabled people, but that doesn't mean the world doesn't expect common decency from other people.