Intel has leaked even more specs and details for the new line of CPUs that are set to appear at this final quarter of 2017 as well as a couple of confirmed Laptop ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) CPUs to the market.
Desktop
Starting with the Desktop CPUs. We'll definitely expect a HyperThreaded CPU in this line as its consumer flagship. As far as leaks go, it'll be a 6 Core CPU, with 12 threads. This will place it pretty much along the lines of examples like the X99 LGA 2011 based CPUs like the i7 5820K, and its successors the i7 6800K and 6850K SKUs. With the K suffix, we should expect nice gains from overclocks. Personally as far as the flagship X Series CPUs go, I judge the 6800 series as running real hot and requires some High End coolers to handle this TDP. But because of the efficiency of Kaby Lake which we should expect abit more for this one, I really hope this will become less of an issue.
But down the mainstream and cheaper line, things start to get plenty interesting. The i5s should get a Hex Core non-Hyperthreaded which is a really heavy boost compared to a Quad Core. It'll probably give performance that is almost as comparable as the old i7s. For i3s details are even juicier. The 8350K is specced as a Quad Core. As far as rumours about HyperThreading go, it might have it, it might not. Regardless of the case, I actually really am intrigued and interested on finding out its performance and heck, I wouldn't even mind if it doesn't have hyper threading. If 4 cores on an i3 remains true, that would be really nice and can bash the Ryzen 3 and 5s. All eyes on the i3s at least because this is gonna be interesting if even a non-Hyperthreaded Quad Core delivers the goods expected of it.
PROS: Big Competition on the budget side. True 4 core and 6 Core CPUs
CONS: Suspect high price.
Laptop
We have confirmed specs of their new ULV Laptop SKUs which just recently launched.
Core i7 8650U (4C8T, 6MB Cache)
Core i7 8550U (4C8T, 6MB Cache)
Core i5 8350U (4C8T, 4MB Cache)
Core i5 8250U (4C8T, 4MB Cache)
Compared to all the other Ultra Low Voltage Laptop chips prior to this, these two chips remains as true Quad Cores with Hyper Threading as we usually regard i7s as. The last generation was stuck with 2 Cores on the i7 7600U and 7500U so should be a big upgrade. Sure, base clock speeds will be lower in turn, but I reckon their Multi Threaded performance will definitely thrash some of the Quad Core i5 that popped up since Skylake. The 8650 and 8550 are specced at 15 Watts but can boost to 25 Watts TDP if required. The 8650U has a 1.9 GHz base to 4.2 GHz Turbo for a single core, which should give more than adequate Single threaded performance and the 8550U at 1.8 to 4.0. Also the other big difference with this Kaby Refresh, is doubling the Cache from 4MB to 8MB.
That should effectively increase the performance of ULV i7s by as much as 40-50% over their predecessors, especially their Multi-Threaded performance. Sure it won't be the regular 35W TDP cousins, but compare that with say the Quad Core i5 6300HQ, 6440HQ, 7300HQ and 7440HQ, for less TDP and with more Cores, should match the i5s at a respective level. It remains to be seen about the true performance of these Quad Cores, especially the i5 8350U and 8250U when it comes out.
The improvements don't stop there, the i5 Refresh do carry this Quad Core WITH hyperthreading trend. And it runs pretty well. Notebookcheck (German Region) did a review of the Acer Swift 3 that comes with an i5 8250U, and it matches up well with the i5 7300HQ, edging out the latter in both the Single and the Multi-Threaded scores on Cinebench.
Link:
https://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Acer-Swift-3-SF315-8250U-MX150-FHD-Laptop.250948.0.html
