Intel cc150: a mysterious 8n / 16h and no turbo intel cpu

The strange and mysterious Intel CC150 processor has made an appearance with benchmarks. The chip not only eliminates the traditional Intel brand, but lacks turbo clock speed despite offering higher specs than lower-end CPUs like Celerons and Pentiums, which typically forgo this feature.

Intel CC150 processor is a mysterious 8N / 16H CPU with no Turbo

The CC150 is shrouded in mystery. A rumor suggests that it powers the servers behind the Nvidia GeForce Now streaming service. And according to the images in Zhihu's post, it doesn't follow Intel's product nomenclature. There is no mention of "Core", "Celeron" or "Pentium" in the upper area, only Intel says, so it would not be a commercial chip.

According to the images in the post, the CC150 chip also has the “SRFBT” code written on it. The "S" tells us that it is a production chip and not a qualification chip. The processor also has batch code L909E392, which means this particular sample originated from the Intel factory in Malaysia the ninth week of 2019.

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The biggest clue to the origin of the CC150 is in its design. It is identical to Intel's current 9th generation Coffee Lake pieces. Even the contacts and heatsink on the back of the processor are the same. We suspect that the chip would fit perfectly into existing LGA1151 motherboards as long as they have been upgraded to firmware that supports the processor.

The CC150 is said to have eight cores, 16 threads, and 16MB of L3 cache, putting the CC150 on par with an Intel Core i9.

The most interesting detail of the processor is that it lacks turbo. The chip is ready to run at 3.5 GHz at all times with an operating voltage ranging from 0.672V to 1.008V. According to the CPU-Z screenshot, the CC150 has a nominal power of 95W.

The Zhihu user combines the CC150 with an ASRock Z390 Extreme4 motherboard and 16GB of DDR4-2666 RAM. Although it is far from an in-depth review, the CPU-Z benchmark and the results of the Cinebench R20 give an idea of ​​how it behaves.

Based on the results, it would be 15% faster than the Intel Core i7-8700K in the CPU-Z multi-threaded test, thanks to having two more cores. However, the i7-8700K's single-thread performance was 4% better than that of the CC150.

The i9-9900KF provided up to 22% and 2% higher performance in multi-thread and single-thread, respectively. Lastly, the chip showed a disappointing single-core Cinebench R20 score. With these numbers, the processor would lag behind the i3-9100F. This is probably due to the lack of a Turbo clock speed. We will keep you informed.

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