Will Kabylake i7 be hex core?

[beany_bot]

Wondering if the next family of "mainstream" core CPUs will be quad core again or move to hex core? I. E. 4790k 6700k then Kabylake. Will they stick with 4?

Would quite like to see it.

 

[beany_bot]

That's a bit rubbish really. Games now starting to use more than 4 cores. Really they should be hex.

 

[beany_bot]

There's a reason why they've split out the 6+ core CPUs to cater for the market that wants more. Just go down that route instead. Mainstream is still 4C/8T max and i don't see any reason for that to change anytime soon.

Didn't the mainstream go from 1 to 2 to 4 cores? Meaning, in time, the will probably be 6 then 8 then 10 cores on the mainstream "core" processors.

I'm not looking for anything to change, more the opposite. History says they will increase core count. Just wondering when.

 

[beany_bot]

IMO we'll never get 4+ cores on mainstream CPUs, unless they decide eventually to go down the more cores/lower clock speed route.

Going to agree to disagree on that one.
I think that's a bit like saying "1tb is all the storage you will ever need in your lifetime".

There are "mainstream" games starting to appear that use more than 4 cores. This will become more commonplace. Therefore I have no doubt that the mainstream chips will eventually have more than 4 cores.

 

[beany_bot]

Well we will see. I'm confident that consumer CPUS will soon have more than 4 cores. Hell if Zens single core performance is what they claim it is then Intel will have to release 6 and 8 core consumer chips to compete.