Intel wants to counteract the arrival of the AMD Ryzen 3 with Intel Coffee Lake processors, which will have six cores and twelve processing threads, possibly arriving in the last quarter of the year.
The arrival of the AMD Ryzen processors on the market has been a blow to Intel, since the Kaby Lake have been processors of a somewhat fair power and have not been so well received in the market, as expected, especially by the i7 7700K processor problems, which get extremely hot even with large and powerful heatsinks. The solution is through the arrival of Coffee Lake, a new family of processors, which will allow Intel to make the leap to six cores.
This eighth generation of Intel processors will have the same socket as the Skylake and the Kaby Lake, the LGA 1151, which will come with the codename Coffee Lake. The new Intel processors will also come with motherboards and new chipset, the Intel 300 Series. As with the Kaby Lake, these Coffee Lake can be installed on a motherboard with an LGA 1151 socket from previous generations, of course, losing PCI lines and only through a BIOS update that allows compatibility and allows recognition of these new processors.
Coffee Lake will arrive with a top of the range of six cores and twelve processing threads in the Core i7, while the mid-range, the Core i5, will have six cores and six processing threads, according to rumors. We know so far that the i7 8700K and the i7 8700 will arrive, two 6C / 12T processors, counting in the mid-range with the i5 8600K and the i5 8400 of 6C / 6T. The Core i7 will have 12MB of L3 cache and the Core i5 will have 9MB of L3 cache, according to the leaks and will have Boost 2.0 mode and Boost 3.0 mode, which will be applied only to the best core of the set. It seems that Intel would launch them between the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth, before Christmas.
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Intel can easily surpass AMD, by putting a good thermal paste in these processors so that they do not heat up and make a good OC, that they have a power per core like Kaby Lake or higher, and with those 6 cores / 12 threads they go They will be great solutions for everyone and maybe they will be able to match or surpass Ryzen in tasks such as video rendering, streaming and any other task in the professional world and for gaming they will be beasts, I have high hopes for these processors.
And the price? Also, the Ryzen PRO will be out for release and next year the Ryzen 2, and if we add to that that the "K" series still has temperature problems
All that is a small improvement, the big one is the new architecture, it is the same as when the new Intel came on the market, a saying from 3rd to 7th gen, the margin for improvement is very small, now you have to improve what you have and not I think that next year it will have something much better, since it has to refine what it has, the Ryzen are still below in IPC and the only thing that is worth it is that it usually has twice as many cores as Intel but not even with those best.
I only contribute with my experience, my R5 1600X walks in style to my neighbor's i7-7700K, and that I have lower frequency memories (2400) and my GTX 1060 is 3Gb and his is 6Gb, we had to change its cooler to a monstrous one and even so it reaches 80 °, my R5 does not exceed 69 °. Also doing tests, we tied in almost all the games in FPS, but in rendering, production and other tests the advantage is like a minimum of 30% for the R5, in fact my data is sometimes higher than the ones shown in the benchmarks and the of the i7-770K are inferior to the above, regards
I already tell you that in games that 7700k paints your face quickly and I don't have to say so, the internet data say so, no Ryzen or even with OC reaches the IPC level of that i7. Come on I recently put my i7 bought 2 months ago and against a 1700 in 4.2Ghz only for the tests, the kid recording with the mobile to not lose power did not exceed 164 points, my i7 lowered the frequencies and recording with a program and all that gave the same points That is what that processor is intended for normal use and to play, now the temperatures are true that if you get a hot one you have to fuck, but we go with a normal heatsink of 40 or 50 euros it is perfect, now you have to lower the voltage that comes very high from home for the motherboards since Intel did not say the voltage and when you lower it you already have good temperatures, greetings.
Step from waiting another year hahaha
Nobody tells you to wait, if you don't want what you have now, you can buy a Ryzen that is also worth it, but if you want to have something new and powerful, then you have to wait.
Now it is clear that no, now for example I now do not know how Ryzen has progressed in games, it is also that the store does not have to eat the coconut with the RAM and the current i7s do not convince me and the that come in theory look good. It is not all about buying or not buying
Man I bought an i7 3 months ago on offer and it is the best thing that I bought in my life, I want it to play and to navigate and it works like a cannon, in games a Ryzen is worse than an i5 / i7 not by much but it is something worse, and I have a fx8150 that the jump that I have made is brutal, now to wait 3 or 4 years to change the processor.
I come from a core duo 2 from 10 years ago and of course working to mount it I want to choose well since next to the plate and the liquid is the only thing left to buy
Well then anything you put that is better than an i5 is going to be left over for 4 years or more if you like to put up with the hardware.
The Ryzen PRO are intended for a different segment of gaming, they have nothing to do with it. That next year will be the Ryzen 2, we will see, but I must emphasize that next year will be the Cannon Lake.