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Source: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/60034/hacked-intel-coffee-lake-8350k-running-z170-motherboard/index.html

This is not clear by any means.

I don't think Coffee Lake is slower than Kaby. If you put in some error bars in, it could fall within the margin of error. I was looking forward to better IPC, but now I'm leaning towards Ryzen, especially if the prices on the 1700X drop.

I am in the market for one, but I've waited 4+ years to upgrade happy to wait a couple of months longer to save a bit of money. As of right now, Newegg have the processors listed but no Z370 motherboards. Perhaps this isn't going to be a smooth launch after all.

Probably been mentioned already but looks like tthe 8600K and 8700K are sold out.

Hard to disambiguate those graphs. Very poor. It looks like the 8700K at stock is faster than the 1800X, across the board. Did they get the 8700K to 5 GHz?

When the term IPC is used (or misused?), is it a measure of single precision arithmetic or dual precision? Is it correct that all microprocessor operations are in integer or FXP (fixed point) format?

I would be nice to have more bandwidth dedicated to storage devices in a mix-and-match scenario, for example, if only 1 card is detected, then give those lanes to n other devices etc. But I suppose that would drive up costs and complexity quite a bit. Looking at the Z170 vs Z270 vs Z370 (could...

Thank you for the explanation. Which components get the direct to CPU link and which ones are on the multiplexed lanes? Are most to the 16 non-MUX lanes for CPU module communication?

Can somebody explain how PCIe lanes are counted? The CPU itself has 16, but there are more lanes on the chipset? How does this work?

Anandtech have posted Intel's CL desktop slide deck and official announcement. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11869/intel-announces-8th-generation-coffee-lake-hex-core-desktop-processors

I am one of those people looking to upgrade from a Haswell i5 setup. Looking forward to a solid [H] review advising an upgrade path based.