During the first stage of announcement, Intel will introduce only six items processor: two Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3.
So far we had no information about the exact date of announcement of the eighth generation desktop Core processors, also known under the code name of Coffee Lake. Intel has only hinted that this event should happen in October this year, but explicit guidance on a specific number was not. Now it became known exactly that the first phase of the announcement of the much anticipated mass of processors with a significantly increased number of cores will be held on Thursday, October 5.
Date originally opened by one of the American sellers who posted on Reddit a screenshot of the internal inventory database, which is October 5, is designated as the time of commencement of sales of older processor family, Core i7-8700K. Besides that the Coffee Lake processors is already available for order in the package tray with the permitted start date of sales October 5, we confirmed from our sources in the number of retail stores. Thus, no doubt no more: the release of a new processor have to wait exactly a month.
It is known that during the first stage of announcement, Intel will introduce only six items processor: two Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3. Thus, initially the family Coffee Lake will include the following models:
Significant improvements will occur in processors in all price categories. Core i7 processors will have six cores with Hyper-Threading technology, 12 MB L3 cache and official support for DDR4-2666 memory. Core i5 will be awarded six-core design without Hyper-Threading, but with 9 MB L3 cache. And the Core i3 processors will have four cores without Hyper-Threading, but with the cache memory of the third level of a size 6 or 8 MB. All of these reasons Coffee Lake processors will have integrated graphics GT2 generation Gen9.5 with 24 actuators.
Simultaneously with the processors Coffee Lake October 5 motherboard manufacturers announce their products based on the chipset Intel Z370. This is the only new chipset that microprocessor giant will release the first phase of implementation of the new platform. While Z370 compared to the commercially available Z270 do not offer no new features except the sole and key: compatibility with new processors.
Unfortunately, support for the new Core processors, the eighth generation of the old Board on the basis of sets of logic hundredth and two hundredth of the series can not provide. Despite the fact that physical performance Coffee Lake will remain almost exactly the same as the processors of Kaby Lake, and they use the connector will continue to be called LGA1151, the new CPU will work exclusively in the boards on the basis of Z370 or other chipsets three hundredth series, which will be released in the early and mid-2018.
Moreover, will not provide the new Board and backward compatibility: the motherboard based on Z370, set the processors Skylake or Kaby Lake will be impossible. To prevent mechanical compatibility between generations of CPU keys in the updated processor socket LGA1151 moved to new locations.
The second phase of the market desktop processors Coffee Lake is scheduled for early 2018. During this period, Intel will introduce chipsets H370, Q370, B360 and H310, which will bring about substantial changes: they will support 6 ports USB 3.1 Gen2 and interface card SDXC memory card and controller Wi-Fi (802.11 ac) channel level. Will extended family of Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3 eighth generation, and also brought to market a dual-core Pentium Gold, which can boast the support of Hyper-Threading, 4 MB L3-cache and graphics core of the GT2 level.
As for the flagship chipset of the three hundredth series, Z390, which will offer not only new built-in USB 3.1 Gen2, SDXC and Wi-Fi, but also support overclocking, its release pushed Intel in mid-2018. Up to this point enthusiasts will have to settle for “transitional” chipset Z370.
Along the way we will remind that on 25 September, Intel needs to present the three new desktop CPU: we are talking about HEDT-models of the Core i9-7940X Core i9-7960X and Core i9-7980XE targeting LGA2066.
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