Intel’s 8th-generation of desktop processors, code-named Coffee Lake, is expected to launch later this year.<\/p>\n
Coffee Lake will be the successor to Intel’s 7th-generation Kaby Lake processors and is\u00a0expected to use the LGA 1151 socket – the socket used by Intel’s 6th-gen and 7th-gen chips.<\/p>\n
Intel has not revealed detailed specifications of its upcoming processors, but has shown off performance figures and surface details about the new platform.<\/p>\n
Intel’s 8th-gen desktop processors will be based on its Coffee Lake architecture, which is manufactured on the 14nm process node.<\/p>\n
This is the same manufacturing process used for the chipmaker’s Skylake and Kaby Lake processors, which confirms that Intel has dropped its “tick-tock” architecture design model as it approaches smaller process nodes.<\/p>\n
As Kaby Lake was a refinement of Intel’s Skylake architecture, Coffee Lake will be a further refinement of Kaby Lake chips – offering improved power efficiency and performance.<\/p>\n
The integrated graphics on Intel’s 8th-gen processors will include support for HDMI 2.2 and DP 1.2 connectivity.<\/p>\n
8th-gen processors will also use a new 300 Series Chipset manufactured by Intel.<\/p>\n
According to KitGuru<\/strong><\/a>, the 300 Series chipset will add support for integrated USB 3.1 ports and Intel Wireless A-C Gigabit Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n A variety of motherboard models will be available for Intel’s Coffee Lake processors, while\u00a0previous-generation motherboards – such as the Z170 and B250 – are expected to support Coffee Lake CPUs via a BIOS update.<\/p>\n With Intel’s 200 Series chipsets featuring support for the company’s Optane storage technology, the 300 Series is also expected to support Optane drives.<\/p>\n Intels 8th-gen processors will be available in Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 models, in addition to lower-end and mobile products.<\/p>\n The chips will support dual-channel DDR4 memory and boast a marginal performance improvement over Kaby Lake.<\/p>\n Intel said its Coffee Lake processors would boast up to a 30% increase in performance over Kaby Lake in certain benchmarks.<\/p>\n While Intel’s 8th-gen\u00a0chips are set to remain on the 14nm process node, the company plans to launch its 10nm Cannonlake processors following the roll-out of Coffee Lake chips.<\/p>\n These chips will coexist until 10nm becomes adopted for use in mainstream desktop processors.<\/p>\n Leaked SiSoftware data<\/strong><\/a> shows the 8th-gen Core i5 and Core i7 processors will both feature six physical cores, although only the Core i7 model will include hyper-threading.<\/p>\n The data also pointed to increased clock speeds across the board, along with\u00a0a 50% increase in L3 cache.<\/p>\n Intel’s 8th-generation of desktop processors, code-named Coffee Lake, is expected to launch later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":202502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[43650,39572,35,131,41536,40396],"class_list":["post-213764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-8th-generation","tag-coffee-lake","tag-headline","tag-intel","tag-performance","tag-processors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213828,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213764\/revisions\/213828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Performance<\/h3>\n
Now read:\u00a0Intel shows off latest Compute Cards<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"