Intel to launch 6 core Coffee Lake-S CPUs & Z370 chipset 5 October 2017

[AthlonXP1800]

Intel to unveil Basin Falls, launch Coffee Lake ahead of schedule
Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 19 April 2017]
Intel will unveil its Basin Falls platform, i.e. Skylake-X, Kaby Lake-X processors and X299 chipset, at Computex 2017 in Taipei during May 30-June 3 two months earlier than originally scheduled, and will bring forward the launch of Coffee Lake microarchitecture based on a 14nm process node from January 2018 originally to August 2017, to cope with increasing competition from AMD's Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors, according to Taiwan-based PC vendors.

The Basin Falls-based products are expected to be launched at the E3 gaming show in the US in June, with the official release at the end of the month.

The Skylake-X series has three 140W processors featuring 6-, 8- and 10-core architectures, while the Kaby Lake-X series has an 112W quad-core processor. In August, Intel will release a top-end 12-core Skylake-X processor.

Meanwhile, AMD is planning to announce its top-end 16-core Ryzen processor and X399 platform in the third quarter to compete for the gaming market.

As for the 14nm-based Coffee Lake-based processors, Intel will initially release several K-series Core i7/i5/i3 processors and its Z370 chipsets in August, and will release more CPUs as well as H370, B360 and H310 chipsets at the end of 2017 or early 2018.

Intel has reportedly spent over US$100 million to order five EUV machine sets from ASML, to accelerate its pace of manufacturing.

Intel and AMD both declined to comment on unannounced products.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20170419PD207.html

Holy crap I was few weeks away from decision to to order 7700K CPU and Z270 motherboard until I read stunning news Intel accelerate Coffee Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores and new Z370 chipset to hit market in August so now I put it off for 6 core Coffee Lake CPU and Z370 motherboard, pointless to buy 7700K now.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

How credible is digitimes as a source?
Because their journalism seems rather poor:

Yes the source is very credible as Digitimes is based in Taiwan that explained their journalism lost in translation.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-desktop-6-core-4-core-cpu-leaked/





First Core i5 Coffee Lake-S CPU engineering sample leaked has 6 core but still has no hyperthreading.

It seemed Coffee Lake will compatible with Intel 200 series chipsets.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

The 4 core 7700K already uses a lot of power. in gaming 30% more than AMD's 8 core

What? 7700K used 30% more than 8 core Ryzen 7 in gaming power consumption?

That are not true.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

7700K: 237W
5 1400: 247W
5 1500X: 240W
5 1600: 252W
5 1600X: 252W
7 1700: 245W
7 1700X: 254W
7 1800X: 262W

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/105961-amd-ryzen-5-1400-ryzen-5-1600-14nm/?page=7

Thief

7700K: 283W
7700K OC 5GHz: 310W
5 1500X: 261W
5 1500X OC 4.2GHz: 287W
5 1600X: 268W
5 1600X OC 4.1GHz: 285W
7 1700: 254W
7 1700 OC 4GHz: 288W
7 1700X: 261W
7 1800X: 273W

http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-overclocked-benchmark-results-4-1ghz_194024/9
http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-ryzen-7-1700-overclocking-best-ryzen-processor_192191/9

I think there are so many other games used less power consumption on 7700K than Ryzen 7 8 core CPUs. Wished all hardware websites reviewed PC games should included PC system power consumption in all games reviews and benchmarks.

I remembered played Evil Within 3 years ago first time on GTX 970, the system power consumption was 250W then I played Evil Within again few weeks ago on GTX 1070 and was surprised to see it used less than half system power consumption at just 120W.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Even by your links the 8 Core Rysen is using no more than the 4 Core Intel, it also depends on how much stress in on the CPU, this is an average across 20 games..

Hmmm I found that chart from AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 3.6 GHz review. I guessed author wizzard wrong calculated average gaming power consumption on 20 games after read emails and comments on review. After 1800X review wizzard reduced games tests from 20 to 15.

This is from latest AMD Ryzen 5 1400 3.2 GHz review on 29 May.



https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Ryzen_5_1400/18.html

 

[AthlonXP1800]

First Coffee Lake-S 6C/12T Geekbench benchmark leaked by MSI:



http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-6-core-i7-cpu-performance-benchmark-leak/

Coffee Lake 6C/12T very low clocked 3.2GHz Geekbench single core and multi core scores is compared to Ryzen 5 1600X 6C/12T clocked 3.6GHz and Core i7 7700K 4C/8T clocked 4.2GHz.

Very impressive!

Cant wait to see what performance is like when Coffee Lake 6C/12T clocked 4.2 or 4.5GHz.

I googled Intel IDA2C9 00 southbridge and came up nothing, guess that will be official brand as Z370 chipset.

Found direct link to Geekbench benchmark:

https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/3208482

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Here is first CPU-Z screenshot of 6C/12T Coffee Lake 8700K:



https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/6op6gj/intel_8th_gen_coffee_lake_6c12t_es_cpuz/
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-coffee-lake-core-6-core-cpu-z-screenshot-leaks-out

Look like 8700K will have 3.7GHz base and 4.3GHz boost, very interesting thing about it has 80W TDP, not 95W TDP. Much closer to my old 22nm Ivy Bridge's 3770K 77W TDP. It will probably faster than 7700K at 4.3GHz and used less power consumption.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

CPU-Z is obviously reading a few things incorrectly, including the clock speed of 3.5 and the TDP (it's 95W, not 80W; don't take these things at face value in the ES phase). Even the article states it and I have to agree to an alternative answer; this is not the 8700K, maybe the 8700?



Confirmation it's not the 8700K (let us all rejoice!):

Well look like you and Sweeper are both wrong claimed CPU-Z screenshot is not the 8700K and you are corrected CPU-Z reading TDP incorrectly but did reading clock speed and stepping or revision correctly.



http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-core-i7-8700k-6-core-cpu-specifications-details-leak/

Wccftech obtained Coffee Lake spec sheet showed 3 CPUs used stepping U0, 4.3GHz is the max boost clock and 95W TPD in first column confirmed CPU-Z screenshot is the 8700K but not for all cores, 4.3GHz boost 1 core, 4.2GHz boost 2 cores, 4GHz boost 4 and 6 cores. 2nd column with 3.6GHz max 1 core boost and 95W TPD could be 8700T and 3rd column with 4.2GHz max 1 core boost and 65W TPD could be 8700.

So 8700K with all 6 cores will have same 4GHz boost clock as Skylake X 7800X.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/6p7lb8/coffee_lake_es_gets_overclocked_to_5_ghz_across/



Another Coffee Lake ES benchmarks leaked but this CPU-Z is not the same CPU as previous CPU-Z showed 8700K due to lower clock speed, could this be i5 8600K with max boost 3.6GHz clock?

If it really i5 8600K with 6C/12T OC to 5GHz at 1.415V then this would be overclockers dream. Faster than 8C/16T Ryzen 7 1700X on base clock.

Wow I am really getting very exciting.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Sweeper leaked final 8700K specification:

Intel® Core™ i7-8700K

6C/12T

12MB L3

3.7 GHz Base

4.3 GHz 6-core Turbo

4.4 GHz 4-core Turbo

4.6 GHz 2-core Turbo

4.7 GHz 1-core Turbo

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/6pjj6e/core_i78700k_coffee_lake_specifications_47_ghz/

4.7GHz max boost on 1 core and 4.3GHz on all 6 cores... Holy batman!

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Wow look like Intel will launch new LGA 1151 chipsets every 6 months from 12 months:

Intel 100 series 2015-2017

Intel 200 series Q1 2017

Intel Z370 Q3 2017

Intel Z390 Q1 2018

Intel 400 series H2 2018

It not the first time it happened with LGA 1151, it been happened before with desktop Core 2 chipsets Intel released new chipsets every few months when my mate had very hard time decided which 19 Core 2 motherboard chipsets to buy for Core 2 Quad Q6600 and he picked up P31 chipset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets

I will be buy Z370 motherboard, will skip Z390 not bothered it and wait for Intel 400 series for 10nm CPU Cannonlake or Ice Lake next year in 2018.

Hopefully 8700K pre-order will start on 1st day of Week 34 on 21 August and 8700K CPU shipments to consumers should begin on 28 August if Intel followed the same steps with Skylake-X launch schedule which saw Skylake-X pre-order started on 1st day of Week 25 on 19 June and CPU shipments to consumers a week later on 26 June.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Could you show us these leaked slides? Because no one else seems to have seen them: As it stands currently, nothing points to anything other than Q3. There'll be a likely announcement (paper launch) for Dell, HP etc., this month (as per an earlier leaked slide), and the new slides show production starts late August (nowhere do they give release windows or dates on those slides). Hopefulness can only come from knowing that SKL-X hit the shelves a week after production started. If the same holds true for CFL remains to be seen.

They will release the 8400, 8600K, 8700 and 8700K first; this much we already knew. The remainder of the line-up will follow come January.

That 4 models but Sweeper leaked info a day ago confirmed Intel will launch 6 models this year between 21 August and 9 October.

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/6rjj82/intel_20172018_roadmap_coffee_lakes_to_launch/

Sweeper already leaked i7 8700K, i7 8700, i5 8600K and i5 8400 info so 2 more models has to be i3 CPUs probably i3 8350K and i3 8300.

Here all slides Sweeper leaked below.

https://videocardz.com/71660/intel-coffee-lake-architecture-brings-6-core-at-95w-tdp

 

[AthlonXP1800]

On Aug. 21, Intel will unveil the 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family on Facebook Live. Watch as two exciting moments align: the Great American Solar Eclipse and the unveiling of Intel’s most powerful family of processors for the next era of computing. Hear from those who are at the center of creating this technology and from creators who are using the power of 8th Gen Intel Core technology in new and exciting ways.

Eight Reasons to Tune In

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2. Hear directly from Gregory Bryant, senior vice president of the Client Computing Group at Intel, and others about the details on the latest processor family and what it can help you do.
3. Discover how immersive experiences will bring you from spectator to participant with 8th Gen Intel Core processor capabilities.
4. Don’t just take our word for it. See the power of 8th Gen Intel Core technology come to life in the hands of a VR creator and imaging technologist.
5. Get a sneak peek at some of the amazing system designs based on 8th Gen Intel Core processors.
6. Start planning for what new 8th Gen Intel Core processor-based device to purchase in the holiday season and even before.
7. Don’t worry, you won’t miss the solar eclipse. Tune in before it descends upon Oregon and the West Coast and then makes its way across the U.S.
8. See how the 8th Gen Intel Core processor is designed for today and what comes next.

When: 8 a.m. PDT, Aug. 21, 2017

https://videocardz.com/press-release/intels-8th-gen-core-processor-to-debut-on-august-21st
https://www.techpowerup.com/235943/intel-to-debut-8th-generation-core-family-on-august-21

Hmmm Coffee Lake-S CPUs will enter volume production on 21 August and hopefully benchmarks will leak, 8700K and Z370 motherboards pre-orders should be up on that day.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

https://videocardz.com/71740/intel-core-i7-8700k-pictured-i3-8350-and-i3-8100-specs-leaked

Poor Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

If you thought CPU manufacturers are busy, think how much work do motherboard makers really have.

The motherboard chipset naming is probably the funniest part of this year’s CPU launches.

First, we had Intel 200-series then AMD 300 series, Intel X299 series, AMD X399 series and now… Intel 300 series. I guess we finally made a full circle!

Today I have something “exclusive” for you, a list of all upcoming ASRock motherboards based on Z370 chipset. And yes, I mean Z370 only, there are no B350 and H370 motherboards here. But why? Well probably because AMD already ‘borrowed’ this chipset naming for their Ryzen series? Who knows.

Either way, expect following motherboards from ASRock:

• ASRock Z370 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming i7
• ASRock Z370 Fatal1ty Gaming K6
• ASRock Z370 Extreme4
• ASRock Z370 Killer SLI/ac
• ASRock Z370 Pro4
• ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac
• ASRock Z370M Pro4

I guess there are no surprises here, except maybe the ITX motherboard, since those are usually late to the party. There’s no Supercarrier or Taichi here yet, but I will let you know as soon as these are confirmed.

https://videocardz.com/newz/upcoming-asrock-z370-motherboards-no-pics

 

[AthlonXP1800]

https://videocardz.com/72112/intel-claims-i7-8700k-to-be-11-faster-than-7700k





Videocardz enhanced picture to have better quality easy to read texts compared to blurred picture on WCCFTech.

8700K 11% faster than 7700K on single threading and 51% faster than 7700K on multi threading hmmm look very nice.

Core i3 8350K 4C/4T look interesting with biggest 65% increase on multi threading compared to Core i3 7350K 2C/4T.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_8700k-763-vs-intel_core_i7_7700k-664









These benchmarks was probably from few months old 8700K ES, look like much faster than 8 core Ryzen 7 1800X. The very interesting I noticed is 8700K scored 20020 Passmark, if it will be around that ballmark then it as fast as Broadwell-E 10 core 6950X at 3GHz scored 20017 Passmark.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6950X+@+3.00GHz&id=2792

 

[AthlonXP1800]

https://twitter.com/intel/status/898254389948764160

 

[AthlonXP1800]

8350K spotted on Userbenchmark.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-8350K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-3-1300X/3935vs3930

It used Gigabyte GA-Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 motherboard, faster than Ryzen 3 1300X at around same price.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

https://videocardz.com/72230/intel-core-i7-8700k-spotted-alongside-asrock-z370-pro4

Very impressive multi-media performance, faster than Ryzen 7 1800X.