Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

Where do you expect Core i7-8700K's Turbo to land?

  • 3.8/3.9 GHz

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 4.0/4.1 GHz

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • 4.2/4.3 GHz

    Votes: 6 46.2%

  • 4.4/4.5 GHz

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • 4.6/4.7 GHz

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Total voters
    13
  • Poll closed .
Honestly this is just me, but I wouldn't compare this to any CPU right now.

It's one sample of a 8700k vs thousands, that have overclocked, downclocked or just stock mixed in. Stupid to compare right now imo.
 
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.
 
Dayman said:
Honestly this is just me, but I wouldn't compare this to any CPU right now.

It's one sample of a 8700k vs thousands, that have overclocked, downclocked or just stock mixed in. Stupid to compare right now imo.
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remember the 5GHz haswell, 5GHz broadwell on air, the 5GHz skylake on air lawls

Now given kabys success I wouldnt be surprised to see 5GHz on a 8700K since Kaby really showed tangible improvements in process.
 
SomeGuy133 said:
wasnt that ice lake?
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Schrodinger's CPU. Simultaneously Coffee Lake and Icelake.
If it were CFL then it's more likely to appear in this press deck. But also probably not since it's a different CPU/Chipset launching 6+ months from now.

Intel did announce the 18C SKL-X months in advance, though.
 
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Since Coffee lake was pulled forward I wonder if they pushed back Z390 in favour of Z370 so it could support both ICL and CFL
 
Intel said:
  • i7-8700K – Intel’s BEST gaming desktop processor ever
  • Up to 195 FPS on Gears of War 4
  • Up to 25% more FPS on Gears of War 4 vs 7th Gen
  • Game + Stream + Record up to 45% better with PUBG vs. 7th Gen
[2] As measured by Gears of War 4 Workload comparing Intel Core i7-8700K Processor (6C/12T) vs. Intel Core i7-7700K Processor (4C/8T)
[3] As measured by Mega-tasking Gaming Scenario on Playerunknown’s battleground comparing Intel Core i7-8700K Processor (6C/12T) vs. Intel Core i7-7700K Processor (4C/8T)
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Up to 25% faster than Core i7-7700K @ Gears of War 4.
 
8700K is $359.

https://newsroom.intel.com/newsroom...es/11/2017/09/8th-gen-intel-core-overview.pdf


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That slide kinda confirms Oct 5 for release. Although it seems certain anyhow.
Wonder when more leaks will occur, must be in retailers hands by now.
 
Someone else has pointed out to me that the listed price is for 1K units (retail/distributors, presumably) which means the individual price for consumers will be higher.
 
Shintai said:
350. Its no different as usual when a product gets replaced.

So evil greedy Intel applied a 2.57% price increase. ;)
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I wonder where are the usual suspects that quoted pre-order prices from the UK and converted to USD now. Jokes aside, those are extremely competitive prices. Not only K models will fly off the shelves now, but i3-8100 / i5-8400 should also become popular. AMD willl still win on their beloved CB/Blender, but Intel will keep or increase their CPU limited gaming performance advantage and dramatically increase their app performance. They are lucky only Z370 MBs are available for now, but soon B360 will available and they will have to do some serious price cuts across the board.
 
misterbobby said:
I was getting excited to do an 8700k build until I looked at the DDR4 prices...
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If fifty to a hundred bucks in higher RAM costs is going to stop your entire Coffee Lake build, best that you don't look at GPU pricing...
 
-Sweeper_ said:
I wonder where are the usual suspects that quoted pre-order prices from the UK and converted to USD now.
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I also wonder where is the guy that came to this thread to convince us the price would be around $500.
 
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AbRASiON said:
As someone who wants to run a small, clean, quiet ITX machine, maybe it's finally time I stopped buying overclockable chips and just got the 8700 regular. On paper the difference is almost nothing, right?
Love to see a benchmark of the 2 vs each other.
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I'm right there with you, clocks have hit a ceiling anyway
 
Nightfire said:
Did CFL take a small icp hit? Even Intel slides sat "32% increase here, 45% increase there vs 7th gen" Not one had a 50% increase.
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So, according to your line of 'reasoning' ThreaRipper takes an "ipc hit" because twice the number of cores on the 1950X doesn't bring twice the performance, but only 80% the performance of 1800X

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But you are wrong, because performance is the product of IPC, number of cores, frequencies, and core load. Check Amdahl's law for the last point.
 
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