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Coffee Lake is Intel's codename for the second 14 nm process refinement following both Skylake and Kaby Lake. Coffee Lake is rumored to consist of 15/28-watt quad-core U-chips with GT3e or GT2 graphics and 35–45-watt H-series chips with GT3e and up to 6 cores. The integrated graphics on these Coffee Lake chips allow support for DP 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 connectivity. Coffee Lake will natively support DDR4-2666 MHz memory in dual channel mode.
Intel has promised that Coffee Lake will offer a performance improvement of up to 30% over Kaby Lake in 15 W mobile processor parts. Desktop Coffee Lake CPUs introduce a major change in Intel's Core CPUs nomenclature, in that i5 and i7 CPUs will feature six cores (along with hyper-threading in the case of the latter). For that matter mobile low power i5 and i7 CPUs now feature 4 cores and 8 threads.
The chips are scheduled for release in the second half of 2017. Coffee Lake will be used in conjunction with the 300-series chipset, and will not work with the 100- and 200-series chipsets.
- Intel Coffee Lake release dateIntel have unveiled the first 8th Gen Core CPUs... but sadly they're just a low-power Kaby Lake refresh for ultrabooks. Coffee Lake is coming in September.
- Intel Coffee Lake price
- With the Ryzen competition Intel can't price their own six-core parts much more than the i7 and i5 of the 7th Gen, so expect the same sort of ~$350 for the i7.
- Intel Coffee Lake specs
- There will be four six-core chips: two K-series and two 65W. The Core i7 8700K will top out at 4.3GHz, and the i5 8600K at 4.1GHz, all-core Turbo clockspeeds.
- Intel Coffee Lake performance
- In terms of gaming, the new six-core CPUs should be excellent, and offer better multi-threaded performance than Ryzen's 1600X thanks to the clockspeeds.
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