8-core intel core processor featured in sisoft sandra

With AMD's return to the big leagues with its Ryzen processors, Intel needs to accelerate the arrival of new Intel Core 'Coffee Lake' processors to continue its dominant position.

An 8-core Intel Core is prepared to compete with the Ryzen 7 2700X

AMD has 8-core Ryzen processors that work really well at a competitive price, like the Ryzen 7 2700X, which is competing with the Intel Core i7 8700K, which has two fewer cores.

Intel does not want to continue tolerating that its competition offers more cores than its Intel Core, so it is preparing a new processor with 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Coffee Lake architecture, which has first appeared in SiSoft Sandra .

This chip is the hope of the blue company to outperform the new Ryzen 7 2700X with the same number of cores / threads and higher clock speeds. These early CPUs are starting to appear on benchmarking websites such as the SiSoftware database, where an 8-core, 16-thread processor named "Kabylake Client Platform" has made an appearance , which appears to be a tests for Intel processors.

The processor dials a clock speed of 2.6 GHz, suggesting that the database is not yet correctly identifying it. Clock speeds are expected to increase as Intel prepares its next 8-core CPU for its official launch. The cache sizes in the SiSoftware database also match what we can expect from a Coffee Lake series 8-core processor, with 2MB of L3 cache per processor core (16MB). Intel's use of a "Kabylake Client Platform" also suggests that the company will continue to use an LGA 1151 CPU socket.

Most likely, we will see this processor in stores starting in the second half of this year.

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