Intel’s next-gen Coffee Lake-S architecture led by the flagship Core i7-8700K processor releasing on 5th of October, They will begin shipping later in the fourth quarter.
Offering 40 platform PCI-E 3.0 lanes. According to the official ‘Coffeelake-S’ press deck Intel is calling their new Core i7-8700K processor their “BEST gaming desktop processor”. Provides 25% more FPS on Gears of War 4 vs Intel previous processor i7 7700k and in multi-tasking game + stream Record up to 45% better. Thanks to the 6-core and 12-thread and upto 32% faster in 4K video editing.
| Unlocked / CPU | Cores / Threads | Base Clock | Turbo Clock | TDP | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Coffeelake-S (14nm++) | |||||
| ✅ i7-8700K |
6C/12T
|
3.7 GHz
|
4.7 GHz
|
95W
|
$359 USD
|
| ❌ i7-8700 |
6C/12T
|
3.2 GHz
|
4.6 GHz
|
65W
|
$303 USD
|
| ✅ i5-8600K |
6C/6T
|
3.6 GHz
|
4.3 GHz
|
95W
|
$257 USD
|
| ❌ i5-8400 |
6C/6T
|
2.8 GHz
|
4.0 GHz
|
65W
|
$182 USD
|
| ✅ i3-8350K |
4C/4T
|
4.0 GHz
|
N/A |
91W
|
$168 USD
|
| ❌ i3-8100 |
4C/4T
|
3.6 GHz
|
N/A |
65W
|
$117 USD |
Improved and better overclocking with 8th-gen ‘Coffeelake-S’ Processors
Intel has included some great OC technology in the new 8000-series processors, with per-core overclocking, up to 8400MT/s, Features XMP 2.0 for memory tuning as well.
All of the chips will use LGA 1151 socket, but definitely you need a new motherboard because the power delivery on Z370 had to be upgraded for 6 cores with the Memory routing support for DDR4-2666.There will be no B360/H270 motherboards coming this year.
