Intel 8-core Coffee Lake CPUs have started to appear on the SiSoftware Database

The release of Ryzen has started what could be called a “Core War” within the CPU market, with both Intel and AMD offering more cores and threads than ever before in their consumer lineups.  Right now, AMD is offering up to 8-cores and 16-cores on AMD/TR4 platforms respectively while Intel offers up to 6-core and 18-core processors on their Z370/X299 platforms. 

To counter AMD’s Ryzen series processors, Intel is rumoured to be working on an 8-core Coffee Lake processor, hoping to surpass AMD’s new Ryzen 7 2700X with the same core/thread counts and higher clock speeds. Now, these CPUs are starting to appear on benchmarking websites like SiSoftware database, where an 8-core, 16-thread processor has been tested on a “Kabylake Client Platform,” what seems to be a testing platform for Intel processors.  

The processor here is listed with a CPU clock speed of 2.6GHz, suggesting that the unknown processor is an Intel test sample. Clock speeds are expected to increase as Intel prepares their upcoming 8-core CPU for their official launch. The cache sizes on the SiSoftware Database also match what we should expect from an 8-core Coffee Lake series processor, with 2MB of L3 Cache per processor core.  Intel’s use of a “Kabylake Client Platform” also suggests that the company will continue to use an LGA 1151 CPU socket. 

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