News Intel 9000 series Coffee Lake S speculation / specification

From videocardz.com:

Intel officially confirms Core 9000 series based on Coffee Lake S

Intel reveals 9000 series Coffee Lake S specifications

Nothing in there about 9700 or 9700k yet, but only time will tell I guess. Can we assume 8C/16T?

 

[rfarmer]

Yeah I saw that, I was hoping for information on the i7. One site speculated that the 9000 series will be 4C/8T for i3, 6C/12T for i5 and 8C/16T for i7. Which would put Intel on par with AMD, that would put the i3 at the same level as the 7000 series i7.

 

[jtd871]

14nm rides again!

 

[Kmpkt]

This could be interesting if Zen 2 launches anywhere near the core 9000 series. I can't help but think that the node shrink and architecture improvements will push AMD squarely in front of Intel.

 

[EdZ]

Well as 'official' as a note in an ancillary piece of documentation (that has since been corrected) can be, anyway. It's about as confirmed' as the I5-8650K, which has continued to fail to exist.

 

[br3nd0]

Well as 'official' as a note in an ancillary piece of documentation (that has since been corrected) can be, anyway. It's about as confirmed' as the I5-8650K, which has continued to fail to exist.

Good point. Title changed. Hopefully they're not too far off the mark!

 

[loader963]

Not a week ago I was reading that the i7 9700k would be a refreshed 8700k, but that Intel was dropping a i9- 9900k that would be the 8 core model....

Just gonna sit back til I hear more from Intel.

 

[br3nd0]

Not a week ago I was reading that the i7 9700k would be a refreshed 8700k, but that Intel was dropping a i9- 9900k that would be the 8 core model....

Just gonna sit back til I hear more from Intel.

I heard something similar too. I guess it's a return fire release in response AMD's Ryzen 2? Great to see AMD stirring things up though!

 

[rfarmer]

I heard something similar too. II guess it's a return fire release in response AMD's Ryzen 2? Great to see AMD stirring things up though!

If not for AMD shaking things up we would probably still be getting 4C/8T i7 from Intel.

 

[Kmpkt]

I love watching Intel flounder like this : )

 

[br3nd0]

I love watching Intel flounder like this : )

Me too, it's great!

 

[tinyitx]

Personally, I would much rather seeing improvement on efficiency and new micro-architecture than having an increase of number of cores per CPU.

 

[Phuncz]

I hope they aren't seriously planning on rebadging Coffee Lake for the coming year just so they can say "i9 9900K" like it's an impossible achievement they've managed. I guess it'll have a 99W TDP as well (4 core to 6 core: 91W --> 95W) and realisticly consume 160W for it's rated performance but will outperform Ryzen easily, while Threadripper offers good competition.

I'm hoping Intel will have something really new in 2019.

 

[br3nd0]

I hope they aren't seriously planning on rebadging Coffee Lake for the coming year just so they can say "i9 9900K" like it's an impossible achievement they've managed. I guess it'll have a 99W TDP as well (4 core to 6 core: 91W --> 95W) and realisticly consume 160W for it's rated performance but will outperform Ryzen easily, while Threadripper offers good competition.

I'm hoping Intel will have something really new in 2019.

I hope so too, but I don't think so... maybe just a re-hash of the 8xxx series with a slight clock bump and a pair of 'flagship' i9 8c/16t thrown in for shits & gigs? It's z87->z97 all over again, although back then AMD were nowhere in sight.

 

[br3nd0]

More on the upper "K" variants.

Grain of salt

https://videocardz.com/76808/intel-...k-and-i5-9600k-possible-specifications-emerge

I was hoping for something 6c/12t @ 65w non K to trump the 8700, but doesn't appear to be anything yet, early days...

 

[rfarmer]

Strange. This is the first time I have seen the 9700k listed as possibly 8c/8t, I wish Intel would release the specs already so we can stop speculating.

I have seen it reported before that both MSI and Asrock had BIOS updates for new CPU for the z370 motherboards, I just checked and both Asus and Gigabyte also have new BIOS updates available. So it is looking good for being able to use these new CPUs with existing z370 motherboards.

 

[guru_SF]

I prefer to wait on officiel Intel announcing, last news about the i9-9900k said: Intel is reportedly prepping a new round of 9000 series processors culminating in the Core i9-9900K, an 8-core/16-thread chip that figures to be the chipmaker's most powerful mainstream CPU to date .
Regards.

 

[br3nd0]

Intel i7 9700K and i9 9900K leaks showcase insane core Turbo speeds