The Intel Core i3 8300 will be the simplest processor in the Coffee Lake family and will have four cores and eight processing threads, without Turbo Boost technology.

We have entered a spiral of processors with more and more cores, which on the one hand is positive, because users gain in power and prices remain within optimal margins, but on the other hand, it is negative, because really beyond six Cores, being generous, for gaming, are more than excessive. Today there are no games that make use of more than four cores, but hey, we can support six at any given time, for 4K resolutions and virtual reality, but beyond six, for games, it is crazy. Intel will raise the Core i3 to the four cores, being the first Quad Core of the Intel Core i3 family.

According to the data that is handled, the Intel Core i3 8300 would be the first quad-core Intel processor for the company's entry processors. This Coffee Lake processor with 14nm architecture, would raise the base price of Core i3 processors a bit by offering four cores, but it would be a great option for very tight budgets. The most interesting thing about this processor is the inclusion of HyperThreading, therefore, this processor will not only have four cores, but will also have eight processing threads, to improve the performance of the processor.

This is the first time that a Core i3 had four cores, since the Core i5, according to the data, will become six cores and six processing threads. It also seems that the Core i3 8300 will not have Turbo Boost technology, therefore it will have a fixed frequency and nothing else. This processor would have a frequency of 4GHz, without automatic variations. It has not been revealed of this processor, the L3 cache that it will have or the TDP of the chip itself. We know that these processors, according to another leak, hit the market between August 21 and October 8.

Source: TPU