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Eight new Intel Coffee Lake CPUs could replace chocolate this Valentine’s Day

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Intel is slated to release eight new eighth-generation “Coffee Lake” desktop processors in the near future, according to listings spotted on SiSoftware’s Sandra Platinum platform. They join the six desktop-bound chips released toward the end of 2017 and inject five Pentium- and Celeron-branded chips into the new Coffee Lake generation. Intel’s initial Coffee Lake launch consisted of four “U” processors targeting high-performance laptops. 

Here are the upcoming processors: 

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Model  Cores /
Threads
 
Base
Speed
 
L3
Cache 
Price 
Core i5-8600 

6 / 6 

3.1GHz 

9MB 

$329 

Core i5-8500 

6 / 6 

3.0GHz 

9MB 

$290 

Core i3-8300 

4 / 4 

3.7GHz 

8MB 

$211 

Pentium G5600 

2 / 4 

3.9GHz 

4MB 

$142 

Pentium G5500 

2 / 4 

3.8GHz 

4MB 

$127 

Pentium G5400 

2 / 4 

3.7GHz 

4MB 

$97 

Celeron G4920 

2 / 2 

3.2GHz 

2MB 

$80 

Celeron G4900 

2 / 2 

3.1GHz 

2MB 

$64 

 Notice that the list includes the Core i5-8600. Intel already offers the Core i5-8600K, but the newer K-free model doesn’t support overclocked speeds. The “K” suffix means the chip is unlocked, allowing end-users to manually increase the base and boost speeds beyond their out-of-the-box settings. Other suffixes you see throughout Intel’s branding include H (high-performance graphics), U (ultra-low power), and T (power optimized). 

The big deal with Intel’s eighth-generation rollout was that the company introduced a six-core chip to the mainstream market. The company continues with another pair of Core i5 processors with six cores along with a Core i3 chip with only four cores. The remaining five in Intel’s third wave are only dual-core products although the Pentium models provide four threads, which translates to two processing lines per core. 

Keep in mind that these eight chips are not “official” products, so the information could change, or is simply invalid. The maximum turbo clock speeds for the Core i5 processors are unknown at this point while the Core i3, Pentium, and Celeron chips won’t have boost speeds. All models fit on motherboards with the LGA 1151 socket (seat), and Intel’s Z370 chipset although we expect the company to introduce new chipsets complementing the new budget-friendly CPUs. 

Here is a better look at the new Core i5 and Core i3 chips mixed in with the current batch: 

Model  Cores /
Threads
 
Base
Speed
 
Boost
Speed
 
L3 cache 
Core i5-8600K

6 / 6

3.6GHz

4.3GHz

9MB

Core i5-8600

6 / 6

3.1GHz

TBD

9MB

Core i5-8500

6 / 6

3.0GHz

TBD

9MB

Core i5-8400

6 / 6

2.8GHz

4.0GHz

9MB

Core i3-8350K

4 / 4

4.0GHz

N/A

8MB

Core i3-8300

4 / 4

3.7GHz

N/A

8MB

Core i3-8100

4 / 4

3/6GHz

N/A

6MB

 What is surprising is that Intel’s third Coffee Lake wave doesn’t include additional Core i7 products for desktops. Right now, there are only two models: The six-core unlocked Core i7-8700K targeting gamers, and the locked non-K “mainstream” i7-8700 model. The latter version has a slower base speed of 3.2GHz versus the i7-8700K’s 3.7GHz base speed. But there’s only a 100MHz difference between their boost speeds. Right now, the Core i7-8600 and 8500 series appears locked to Intel’s laptop CPU family. 

We expect to hear more about the eight new processors in a few weeks, as speculation points to a possible launch around Valentine’s Day. Who needs chocolate, right? 

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