As it was recently revealed, Intel plans to introduce the family of desktop processors Coffee Lake earlier than originally planned, and this is connected, of course, with the success of AMD Ryzen processors. Now one of the upcoming processors appeared in the SiSoftware performance test database. More precisely, our colleagues found a record about testing a very interesting engineering sample of the processor.
This sample is interesting in that, according to the record, it has six physical cores, each of which provides only one computational flow. This engineering sample works at a frequency of 3.5 GHz. The processor has 1.5 MB of L2 cache (256 kByte per core) and 9 MB of L3 cache. This volume of L3 cache is somewhat puzzling, because the processors Coffee Lake should be very similar to its predecessors - Kaby Lake, which have 2 MB of L3 cache per core. That is, it would be logical
if this sample had 12 MB of L3 cache. And either Intel cut the cache size, or it's just an error.
The fact that the processor has only six computational flows may indicate its belonging to the Core i5 line, because all processors of the Core i7 family support Hyper Threading. If this leak is true, then this will be Intel's first 6-core processor for the mass market segment.
It would be logical to assume that Intel will introduce Core i7 processors with 6 cores and 12 threads in the Coffee Lake family.Theoretically, such solutions can be approximately at the same level as the 6-core Core i5, which makes them meaningless. It can also be assumed that the 4-core models will "move" with the Core i3 family. Related Products :
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