Soldato
Looks like the Kaby Lake Pentium is a 2 core / 4 thread chip with a 3.8 Ghz clock speed. Not to shabby at all. If this comes in at circa £50 like previous Pentiums this could the best budget CPU for years.
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Intel Pentium G4620: A new budget CPU king?
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Soldato
why do new cpu's goto some dodgy back room in china, with a crap camera, that's what I want to know
Don
Wishful thinking no doubt, but could it open up the way for consumer i7's to be 6 core?
Celeron - 2 Cores, 2 Threads
Pentium - 2 Cores, 4 Threads
i3 - 4 Cores - 4 Threads
i5 - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
i7 - 6 Cores - 12 Threads?
Celeron - 2 Cores, 2 Threads
Pentium - 2 Cores, 4 Threads
i3 - 4 Cores - 4 Threads
i5 - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
i7 - 6 Cores - 12 Threads?
Caporegime
This is what we would call progression.
Assuming it's true.
Assuming it's true.
Soldato
And where would that leave the i3? Expect the same old from Intel, small clock boosts and that's it.
Don
In the same place it is at the minute - between the Pentium and the i5
Would also open the way for an i3k sku though.
As I said though - wishful thinking on my part
So an i3 skylake. Will be nice if Intel can drop this in around Athlon 860k money.
In other ways it's not that impressive compared to Skylake quads. The Xeon E3 1240L v5 is a 4 core 8 thread chip with a 3.2Ghz clock and a TDP of 25 watts. The 1260L is 3.9Ghz for 45 watts and both have much more cache.
2 cores and 4 thread at 51 watts is pretty meh unless this ships with a meaty IGP faster than AMD's APU's?
In other ways it's not that impressive compared to Skylake quads. The Xeon E3 1240L v5 is a 4 core 8 thread chip with a 3.2Ghz clock and a TDP of 25 watts. The 1260L is 3.9Ghz for 45 watts and both have much more cache.
2 cores and 4 thread at 51 watts is pretty meh unless this ships with a meaty IGP faster than AMD's APU's?
In the same place it is at the minute - between the Pentium and the i5
Would also open the way for an i3k sku though.
As I said though - wishful thinking on my part
i3 K chips? Overclockable on basic chipsets, no IGP with a bigger cache? Would be interesting.
Yeah that's what I'm wondering, if this is so I will be upgrading to Kaby, maybe Intel know that they haven't been doing enough and AMD with Zen is pushing them to get more cores.
It's already been posted many times that we'll get 6 core I7's with Coffee Lake, in 2018/2019. Until then it's the usual Mainstream 4 core/enthusiast 6, 8, 10 etc core.
I'll probably make Coffee Lake my next upgrade, with a nice PCI-E V4 motherboard and Intel Optane memory support.
Soldato
If AMD rock Intel's boat with zen expect to see 6 core i7s sooner.
I can't see how. Intel aren't just going magic a chipset and CPU from thin air and even if AMD sell every chip they make for twice what it worth will Intel even care?
Caporegime
A poster on AT forums noticed this:
https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/1112633
The G4560 also has HT. So essentially a Core i3 for around £66??
https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/1112633
The G4560 also has HT. So essentially a Core i3 for around £66??
Soldato
I can't imagine we'll see 6 core i7's so soon, not when Intel can milk 4c8t out yet another generation.
Don
Never say never - they have released emergency products before (Original Pentium 4 Extreme Edition ?).
It's unlikely to need a new chipset, as nothing changes on that side of things - at worst it's probably a bios update. Whether 6 cores can physically fit on 1151, and whether it can be done within the power/thermal constraints is probably another matter.
Man of Honour
According to this 6 core mainstream i7's will be coming along with Coffee Lake in 2018.
probably one of the messed up Celeron things you see in laptops with HT, ie half as good as an I3
I thought the same, if Zen is even remotely competitive then they are either going to have to slash prices across the board or offer more for the money.