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8 Core Coffee Lake on its way

easyrider said:
Yeah cheers for the link, interesting reading...but still no cigar...my next upgrade will be coffee lake 8/16 :)
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Coffee lake 8c (if there is one, I have my doubts) might suffer the same issues if they move away from ring bus. Apparently 6c is the limit for that arch.
 
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easyrider said:
https://www.kitguru.net/components/...points-to-new-8c-16t-intel-coffee-lake-s-cpu/


I'm in no major rush tbh...The 6700k is a great chip. I'll wait and see what the counter offer from intel is. :)
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Rumours, not confirmation.

They may be testing, but I have my doubts whether they can make it work with all the thermal issues the platform has. I don't think they'll be able to get the clocks high enough for it to be competitive. Even the cpu showing up in that link is only at 2.2ghz.

A shame, I'd been Intel since 2006 and my 4770k was the longest I've owned a cpu for (clocked to 5ghz), but they are desperately losing ground atm.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Rumours, not confirmation.

They may be testing, but I have my doubts whether they can make it work with all the thermal issues the platform has. I don't think they'll be able to get the clocks high enough for it to be competitive.

A shame, I'd been Intel since 2006 and my 4770k was the longest I've owned a cpu for (clocked to 5ghz), but they are desperately losing ground atm.
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Maybe they will surprise and drop to 10nm
 
Anymore info lately ? I'm currently on a Ryzen 1800X, I play at 1440P so I don't get any CPU bound scenarios but the motherboards with Intel just look so much nicer and I fancy a change :p
 
amigafan2003 said:
Coffee lake 8c (if there is one, I have my doubts) might suffer the same issues if they move away from ring bus. Apparently 6c is the limit for that arch.
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6C is not the limit for ringbus, they had 12C per ring on Broadwell-E so there's a long way to go before ring becomes an issue on the consumer side. They only moved to mesh on Xeons because the workloads they sell Xeons for aren't as latency sensitive and they needed something that could scale to >24 cores. Skylake-X being just binned Xeon dies showcased the weakness of mesh in the consumer area.

amigafan2003 said:
Rumours, not confirmation.

They may be testing, but I have my doubts whether they can make it work with all the thermal issues the platform has. I don't think they'll be able to get the clocks high enough for it to be competitive. Even the cpu showing up in that link is only at 2.2ghz.

A shame, I'd been Intel since 2006 and my 4770k was the longest I've owned a cpu for (clocked to 5ghz), but they are desperately losing ground atm.
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Not really that unfounded since they've published specifications for an 8+2 core desktop part for OEMs (the +2 is the iGPU), it's coming. Also stock Coffee Lakes don't really have thermal issues, it's only when you try to push a massive overclock that you start being thermally limited.
And on the clock side, it's the same thing people were saying about their jump from 4 cores to 6 cores, that the new 6 cores won't clock as high, yet they do, and even higher because of 14nm++. If they do release an 8 core, it's most likely going to be on the very mature 14nm++, 10nm for now only seems to be reserved for smaller chips because early 10nm isn't really a good fit for high performance chips.

If they are losing ground then that's good, it means AMD has finally showed up with something competitive and Intel can stop resting on its laurels and start improving its consumer offerings.
 
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