Intel’s 8th generation of CPUs, codename “Coffee Lake”, launched a few weeks ago. Are these CPUs any different then the last gen?
These are the first CPUs in almost 10 years of Intel’s “i” series where they break the convention of 2/4, 4/4, 4/8. That is all i3s have had 2cores and 4 threads, i5s have had 4cores and 4thread, and i7s have had 4cores and 8threads. Until now.
In what is probably a response to AMDs threadripper CPUs we are now seeing 4/4, 6/6, 6/12 for the consumer grade i3/i5/i7s. Although Intel is still beating AMD at performance at most price levels if AMD can stay in the game we may see the start of a core/thread war. AMDs new CPUs go up to 16 cores and Intel new power user i9s go up to 18 cores so for the first time since we hit the 3.5-4GHz mark years ago things may start to get interesting in the CPU market.
