WeatherMan
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With Intel's new Coffee Lake processors soon to hit the market I've listed below what is currently known about them. This info is made up from both leaked specifications and speculation within the tech community.
Features
Kaby Lake Refresh Z370 first generation chipset
When is the release date?
There's not yet any official date, but the listed time frame from Intel is shown as the second half of 2017. Meanwhile motherboard manufacturers have stated that the new chipsets for Coffee Lake will be available in Q4 2017, likely between October and December.
What models will be available?
Upon release there will be 6 different models brought to the market, their differences are stated below:
How do these chips compare to previous generations?
As always with the release of a new generation of processors, different sources are stating wildly different performance increases over the previous generation (Kaby Lake), below is a leaked summary from Intel showing the performance increases throughout the model range:
Real world gains will likely be a lot less.
How much will the chips cost?
There's not yet any official pricing, but that hasn't stopped some sites posting approximate figures:
Can I use my current motherboard?
Not Likely, although Coffee Lake will still use the LGA1151 socket, there is a new chipset soon to appear on the market which will be named Z370, specifically for the new generation.
ASRock is the only motherboard manufacturer that has so far brought up the 300 series chipset limitation, albeit with an accidental tweet that was later deleted.
In the meantime, other sources have stated that the 100 series and 200 series chipsets available right now could theoretically support Coffee Lake processors after receiving BIOS updates, which also supports my next point:
During a demonstration from Intel showing off Coffee Lake, it's been stated that the motherboard used was a 200 series chipset with a modified BIOS, so it does seem there could still be hope for whose are not happy replacing their motherboard.
Source: https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-14nm-coffee-lake-release-date
Intel will be officially revealing Coffee Lake at Computex on Monday the 21st of August so check back with this thread soon as I'll be keeping it updated with new information as it becomes available.
Features
Kaby Lake Refresh Z370 first generation chipset
- Next Gen Optane Memory support
- Integrated Dual-Core Audio DSP
- Thunderbolt 3.0 (Alpine Ridge)
- USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gbit/s)
- C8 Support
- Thermal design power (TDP) up to 95 W (LGA 1151)
When is the release date?
There's not yet any official date, but the listed time frame from Intel is shown as the second half of 2017. Meanwhile motherboard manufacturers have stated that the new chipsets for Coffee Lake will be available in Q4 2017, likely between October and December.
What models will be available?
Upon release there will be 6 different models brought to the market, their differences are stated below:
How do these chips compare to previous generations?
As always with the release of a new generation of processors, different sources are stating wildly different performance increases over the previous generation (Kaby Lake), below is a leaked summary from Intel showing the performance increases throughout the model range:
Real world gains will likely be a lot less.
How much will the chips cost?
There's not yet any official pricing, but that hasn't stopped some sites posting approximate figures:
Can I use my current motherboard?
Not Likely, although Coffee Lake will still use the LGA1151 socket, there is a new chipset soon to appear on the market which will be named Z370, specifically for the new generation.
ASRock is the only motherboard manufacturer that has so far brought up the 300 series chipset limitation, albeit with an accidental tweet that was later deleted.
In the meantime, other sources have stated that the 100 series and 200 series chipsets available right now could theoretically support Coffee Lake processors after receiving BIOS updates, which also supports my next point:
During a demonstration from Intel showing off Coffee Lake, it's been stated that the motherboard used was a 200 series chipset with a modified BIOS, so it does seem there could still be hope for whose are not happy replacing their motherboard.
Source: https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-14nm-coffee-lake-release-date
Intel will be officially revealing Coffee Lake at Computex on Monday the 21st of August so check back with this thread soon as I'll be keeping it updated with new information as it becomes available.