Today, TechRadar, the British technology media, points out that the Coffee Lake processor is a fairly key upgrade to Intel's mainstream product line, as it has not seen such a meaningful new product for many years.
In fact, as early as 2010, LGA1366 platform, Intel brought a 6-core Gulftown, but as the first generation of fever products, the price is extremely high.
The Core i7-5820K in 2014 was the first to hit a six-core CPU at $ 389 MSRP and i7-8700K this year, but the problem came, HEDT has its own enthusiast-based motherboard platform, the interface is not compatible with the LGA115x .
And the LGA115x's Core i7 has a solid 4-core, 8-thread since 2009. Of course, one of the reasons for that is that AMD is not that powerful either.
Things have changed a lot this year, AMD Ryzen turned out directly to the mainstream level of CPU on the 8-core 16-thread, and IPC has more than 50% increase, Intel finally took the 6 12-core and hold N Core i9 took out.
Compared to Ryzen, Coffee Lake has a back-up advantage, single-core performance is better, the clock rate is also higher than 30% +.
In addition, 6-core 6-threaded i5-8400 because compared to half the price of the 7700K and 2/3 of the power consumption, has become a better choice for gamers.
TR think, Intel led the 6-core development this year, putting pressure on Ryzen's second generation next year , Next year's CPU market is still fancy.
