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Intel's Just Launched 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' Processors Bring the Heat To AMD's Ryzen

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

bigwophh writes: The upheaval of the high-end desktop processor segment continues today with the official release of Intel's latest Coffee Lake-based 8th Generation Core processors. The flagship in the new lineup is the Core i7-8700K. It is a 6C/12T beast, with a base clock of 3.7GHz, a boost clock of 4.7GHz, and 12MB of Intel Smart Cache. The Core i5-8400 features the same physical die, but has only 9MB of Smart Cache, no Hyper-Threading, and base and boost clocks of 2.8GHz and 4GHz, respectively. The entire line-up features more cores, support for faster memory speeds, and leverages a fresh platform that's been tweaked for more robust power delivery and, ultimately, more performance. The Core i7-8700K proved to be an excellent performer, besting every other processor in single-threaded workloads and competing favorably with 8C/16T Ryzen 7 processors. The affordably-priced 6-core Core i5-8400 even managed to pull ahead of the quad-core Core i7-7700K in some tests. Overall, performance is strong, especially for games, and the processors seem to be solid values in their segment.

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  1. More more more! by ckatko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More cores! More RAM! More performance! ... and more cost.

    Oh, and less PCI-e lanes while we're at it. And let me guess, no NVMe because us plebeians don't deserve it.

    1. Re:More more more! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Buy threadripper?

    2. Re:More more more! by viperidaenz · · Score: 1

      Buy xeon?

    3. Re:More more more! by thegreatbob · · Score: 3, Informative

      Currently running crusty old X79 stuff, a PCIe -> M.2 adapter, running a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB. Pretty sure NVMe just implies a standardized controller interface stitched to PCIe; I've been under the impression that software support is the main issue with it, as it's basically just another PCIe card as far as the hardware is concerned. I see it suggested on the internet (probably old forum posts) that X79 stuff should not be able to use it as a boot device, but my system begs to differ.

      The piddly PCIe provisions are a shame though... no improvement (in lane count) whatsoever since they pulled the controllers onto the CPU die (LGA1156, Nehlaem). Note that the addition of each lane requires no less than two additional pins on the socket, so they'd have to re-purpose some pins to do it, and there aren't really a lot to spare. I know there were a fair number (20+) on the 1155 that weren't marked RSVD or anything else, but I'm having some difficult finding data on 1151. From the images I have found, it appears that practically every pin is connected to something, and fewer than 20 RSVD pins remain at all.

      Site I'm referencing

      It looks like they ate about a dozen RSVD pins for more power...

      Perhaps the bigger nuisance is that Coffee Lake breaks compatibility with the 100/200 series chipset motherboards.

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    4. Re:More more more! by David_Hart · · Score: 2

      Currently running crusty old X79 stuff, a PCIe -> M.2 adapter, running a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB. Pretty sure NVMe just implies a standardized controller interface stitched to PCIe; I've been under the impression that software support is the main issue with it, as it's basically just another PCIe card as far as the hardware is concerned. I see it suggested on the internet (probably old forum posts) that X79 stuff should not be able to use it as a boot device, but my system begs to differ.

      The piddly PCIe provisions are a shame though... no improvement (in lane count) whatsoever since they pulled the controllers onto the CPU die (LGA1156, Nehlaem)..

      Prove that the PCIe lanes are being maxed out for gaming, daily computing, video editing, etc. and then I'll care. Yes, PCIe lanes matter for specific applications but the vast majority of gaming and higher end enthusiast systems are not maxing out the existing PCIe 3.0 lanes and DMI 3.0 bandwidth.

      Current benchmarks show very little difference between SSD and NVMe in boot times and gaming performance. The main difference is transferring large files and loading large files into memory (i.e. video editing). NVMe M.2 drives are also somewhat expensive in comparison to SSD.

      I upgraded the NVMe M.2 drive on my Surface Pro 4 to a Samsung 960 Pro while fixing the cracked screen. I bought a PCIe NVMe adapter card to copy the OS from the original NVMe drive to the new one. Windows 10 had no problems accessing it with no third party drivers required. I'm pretty sure that NVMe support will be integrated into Intel motherboard designs through third party controllers.

      Basically, it's great that AMD CPUs have higher end features that Intel as it gives us choice and drives competition. But how useful those features are will depend on you use case.

    5. Re:More more more! by WorBlux · · Score: 1

      Buy EPYC!? (Sorry, OCD made me do it)

    6. Re:More more more! by WorBlux · · Score: 1

      Some m.2 SSD's have a legacy option ROM that can be used to boot. Other boards may have and UEFI driver availible, but it's not going to work out of the box on every system and every drive on the X79 platform.

    7. Re:More more more! by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 1

      Buy Sparc

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    8. Re:More more more! by lexman098 · · Score: 1

      Buy compact disc players and electrical tin openers.

    9. Re:More more more! by viperidaenz · · Score: 1

      Buy washing machines and cars.

    10. Re:More more more! by thegreatbob · · Score: 1

      That's the point, I suppose, the x16 PCIe connections come no where near being maxed out... I've seen plenty of numbers suggesting the 3.0 x8 is more than adequate for most people's use. The bigger concern is with everything connected to the PCH. If you have two gigabit network interfaces, an NVMe boot drive, and a few SATA disks and a few SATA disks, one can at least come close to maxing out the ~4GB/s available bandwidth on the DMI connection. So you're absolutely correct, the vast majority of folks do not need to care. I think a lot of the gripe (mine, at least... I need at least one actual x4 slot) on that stems from the platform having offered no improvement in capacity since it was first released.

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    11. Re:More more more! by thegreatbob · · Score: 1

      In all likelihood what I'm dealing with. I ran into precisely zero hangups in the process; just had to install the driver for it (windows 8). Perhaps Samsung made it too simple, and I never actually had to fight for it, leaving me with the perception that it's easier than it would normally be.

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  2. I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by shellster_dude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I openly admit that I'm a fan of AMD. However, I think it's reasonable to ask why Intel CPU's have not seen any large jump in performance or features until they had to, due to AMD competition, again. The R&D time and cost on these new chips is multiple years. That means, that Intel can't just roll out a chip in response to AMD, unless they either have good corporate intellignence and knew one to two years ago that AMD was coming back in a big way, or the much more likely answer that they've been sitting on new features and performance because they wanted to milk the previous generation for all it was worth. I find the later to be reprehensible, which is why I will be building an new AMD system, even if it doesn't give me quite the top performance I might get from an Intel chip, because I appreciate them driving competition again (P.S. my last system was Intel because AMD wasn't really competing when I built it).

    1. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Jeremi · · Score: 0

      It's Intel's R&D investment; they can sell it or sit on it as they see fit. They are a for-profit corporation, not a public service, and are under no obligation to anyone to sell their technology on any set schedule.

      That said, Intel-vs-AMD is a good example of the value of competition to improve products for the consumer. Without AMD on their heels, God only knows how long Intel would have coasted.

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    2. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > or the much more likely answer that they've been sitting on new features and performance because they wanted to milk the previous generation for all it was worth

      This is likely the case. Each of Intel's CPUs had a designated profit margin (just like Apple's phones/products all all in the 50%+ profit margin area).

      The Zen architecture is good, but I hear it's Infinity Fabric that threatened Intel. Stitching together smaller clusters of cores resulted in higher yields and thus profitability at lower prices. However, this seems more a threat to their server market than desktop. Six cores must have seemed enough to counter Ryzen's 6/8-core desktop offerings.

      The only question is: how long has Intel been holding back on cores? They probably could have done this a couple years ago at the least. Maybe five years ago. This is also an example when free market forces won't necessarily fix everything. If Intel wanted to kill AMD, they could probably do it by putting hyperthreading on their new i3 and i5 units; maybe unlock them, too. Much like how an ISP could increase its speeds and lower prices temporarily to kill off a new entrant.

      The i3-8100 and i5-8400 will probably be tough to beat, but if AMD cuts prices a bit on the 1200 and 1600, they'll still probably be good buys.

    3. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by oic0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, but we are under no obligation to buy from a company that behaves in a manner we don't agree with. I'll always buy AMD when its a valid option because of all of intels past behavior. Sand bagging is just a drop in the bucket.

    4. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by aliquis · · Score: 2

      I think it's reasonable to ask why Intel CPU's have not seen any large jump in performance or features until they had to, due to AMD competition, again.

      You've answered that yourself.
      Because of lacking AMD competition they didn't had too.

      The R&D time and cost on these new chips is multiple years. That means, that Intel can't just roll out a chip in response to AMD, unless they either have good corporate intellignence and knew one to two years ago that AMD was coming back in a big way

      No problem.
      Intel have improved their cores and production the whole time and have had quad core desktop chips since Core 2. They launched six core Sandy-Bridge-E processors back in 2011 and have had Xeons with many cores too for a very long time.
      So it's been around. Intel just haven't put it into the main-stream market. The six-core i7 5820 from 2014 didn't really cost more than the i7 4790K though ($10-$20?) so even back then you could get a six-core CPU for the price of a quad-core one. The motherboards and RAM for the HEDT platform (DDR4 in this case) was more expensive though.

      With quad-core on core quad, core i, on Sandy-bridge (2xxx), Ivy-bridge (3xxx), Haswell (4xxx), Broadwell (5xxx), Skylake (6xxx), Kaby lake (7xxx) I've been waiting to get it hopefully I think even with Broadwell and over and over again it didn't happened even though they have shrunk the manufacturing process and the HEDT chips went from 6 to 8 to 10 cores and even more now (18?), it was bound to happen eventually and hopefully it would have happened now anyway. As in the lower end though whatever that would get this sort of upgrade or not and as for whatever the HEDT line would get as high core counts as they ended up getting that could be questioned. But something like the i7 8700K I've waited on and expect for a long time. It was obvious it would happen eventually.

      or the much more likely answer that they've been sitting on new features and performance because they wanted to milk the previous generation for all it was worth.

      Of course. Why would they do something else unless needed?

      which is why I will be building an new AMD system, even if it doesn't give me quite the top performance I might get from an Intel chip

      I've had a shitty processor for a long time and waited and waited on Ryzen even at this time the last year for instance and then it was supposed to come maybe end of year, then Q1, then March, then weak supplies, and then the performance wasn't really up there in gaming (it has improved since, as has memory support), but then the Coffee lake become closer and closer and knowing i7 7700K was better for games before and assuming 8700K would keep up in single thread performance but get 50% boost from two more cores in multi-threaded (6 cores faster than Ryzen cores vs 8 Ryzen cores) it seemed to be the best trade-off. And now it's launched and for multi-threaded at stock it doesn't really live up to over-clocked 1700 or stock 1800X performance at all tasks but with both OC it likely is very close on both. At single-core performance it's better of course. Still for streaming it seem like Ryzen 7 may still have a small advantage. I wonder if that could be compensated for by running OBS on 2 cores and the game on 4? Some people use a secondary PC for streaming,

      I would to be fine supporting AMD and these last months it's been a wise decision and even now it's a decent choice. However since I've sat here and waited with my complete garbage processor (AMD Phenom X4 9850) it feel a bit easier to buy the Intel chip because that I couldn't buy before whereas I could had gotten my lovely Ryzen 7 1700X a long time ago (I actually have had at-least two at home and even pre-ordered it but I've returned them because I have been undecided even though I would unlikely had been unhappy with it and this PC is such a fucking pain plus just think of all the electricity I've wasted and all

    5. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by epine · · Score: 2

      It's Intel's R&D investment; they can sell it or sit on it as they see fit. They are a for-profit corporation, not a public service, and are under no obligation to anyone to sell their technology on any set schedule.

      If we replace "Intel R&D" with "Mylan", does your comment still stand? If not, why not?

      I'm almost libertarian enough to agree with you if the company in question operates on trade secrets and claims no patent protection.

      Patent protection, however, is a two-way street: you're granted a right to call upon the government's power of coercion to prevent other people from pursuing ideas—ideas they might very well have come up with independently—with the purpose of fostering competition for the public good.

      At that point, being an ass with your business methods intersects with the public interest, too, because you swallowed the patent pill and traded your pure and independent "for profit" status in exchange for public-interest coercive power-ups.

    6. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by flatulus · · Score: 4, Informative
      Intel's schedule for Coffee Lake may have been moved up a bit due to Ryzen, but this is not a "rabbit out of a hat" move for Intel.

      See here http://marketrealist.com/2017/... which says "There are rumors that Intel may launch its HEDT (high-end desktop) processors and chipsets and its Coffee Lake microarchitecture a few months earlier than anticipated in response to AMD’s Ryzen 5 and 7 processors. "

      That web page is dated April 28, 2017.
      Here's another article: https://www.pcworld.com/articl... which shows Coffee Lake in 2H17. This article is dated Feb 13, 2017.

      So Intel is executing according to plan since first of this calendar year.

    7. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by gweihir · · Score: 2

      You do not need to ask. Intel had this design basically ready, except for the optimization of the last production steps. This means for years, Intel has screwed over its customers with a sub-standard design at vastly inflated prices. The funny thing is that many of these screwed over customers think Intel can do no wrong.

      Sadly, customers that buy from the largest vendor only and do not even consider the competition are the death of competition and quality.

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    8. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by gweihir · · Score: 1

      Patents have stopped being for the public good a long time ago. They serve as mechanism for intellectual theft from anybody else now and nothing else. Same, incidentally, for copyright. I bet most people here do not know that copyright was created to prevent publishers from ripping off artists by publishing their stuff without permission or payment.

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    9. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Unless you are concerned about data security...
      In which case both Intel and AMD should be viewed with some level of suspicion (as well as AMD/Nvidia videocards) as all of the above hardware is using signed firmware and user inaccessable DRM/NSA processors that could be spying on you, either now or in the near future when they finally feel penetration is deep enough to turn them on.

      Most people scoff at these concerns, but an example that hasn't been brought up often enough: Tor and other privacy networks are only as secure as the software. But often forgotten in discussing that is that also the hardware they run on must be trustworthy. Windows 10 is already pretty well known to be untrustworthy, but when you add in the suspicious change of *ALL* processor manufacturers moving to signed firmware, without the end user having either software or hardware switches to either disable the signing so they as power users can use the hardware as they need/want to, or documentation to prove that this change in control over their hardware is in fact no more dangerous than unreviewable microcode updates to the processor microarchitecture itself, should be viewed with suspicion.

      Intel has had ME since 2010 or so, on post LGA1366 cpu+motherboards. AMD pushed it with FM2+ and Ryzen, in fact with a worse implementation, since the PSP, containing a full fledged Arm TrustZone core, has a single image, so unlike the Intel design, you can't even strip certain modules in the hope of crippling its capabilities. Furthermore both of these designs are now used for Software TPM support, meaning that even if you assume the original TPM modules were trustworthy, the new software designs running inside the management engines could be hacked to exfiltrate keys in a manner with far less complications, since they are using a general purpose cpu to retain their security.

    10. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by dreamchaser · · Score: 1

      Nobody is under an obligation to buy any CPU from any company. If you think AMD is llilly white then you are naive. Personally, I buy what works best for my use case at the time of purchase. I try to leave imaginary ethical stuff aside. If AMD had an edge then they would 'sandbag' too. It is sound corporate strategy.

    11. Re: I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'll never understand the notion that: one, AMD wouldn't do the same things, were they in Intel's position; and two,that AMD hasn't done shady things itself. That strikes me as a rather naive view of the technology landscape. Not painting Intel as saints, nor suggesting that tu quo que is a valid excuse. But seriously, these are large companies trying to make money, run by individuals trying to make money. There is no altruism here and no morals. Ethics, well, maybe some, sometimes...

    12. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't think its a stretch to see that Qualcomm was the competitor after AMD so Intel was focusing on power

    13. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by shellster_dude · · Score: 1

      I don't disagree. Intel can do what they want. It's their product. They don't owe me anything, and I don't owe them any of my money. I find their business practices scummy (though perfectly legal and within their rights), which is exactly why I'm voting with my dollar and going elsewhere.

    14. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As much as I like to hate Intel the concept that they have not improved anything over the years is absolute bullshit. Each gen/iteration has provided improvements in performance and performance per watt. While each gen is usually not mindblowing levels it is generally 20%+. people look at clock speed or number of cores and incorrectly assume that that is all their is to performance and improvements.

    15. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by grasshoppa · · Score: 2

      This is how smart businesses operate.

      I remember years ago when the Geforce was brand new. As in; the original was fresh to market by 1 or so years. Those were the days of the Coppermine 333 which you could clock to 500 without breaking a sweat. Quack 3 Arena absolutely *flew*. It was glorious.

      Anyway, the geforce. Another company, I believe it was voodoo at the time, came out with their response to the geforce which ran a tad faster...lo and behold, Nvidia released a driver update which significantly boosted the performance of the cards already out there, taking the speed crown back definitively.

      The point is this has been common practice since forever. It's not anything to get riled about, it just is.

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    16. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      I openly admit that I'm a fan of AMD. However, I think it's reasonable to ask why Intel CPU's have not seen any large jump in performance or features until they had to, due to AMD competition, again. The R&D time and cost on these new chips is multiple years. That means, that Intel can't just roll out a chip in response to AMD, unless they either have good corporate intellignence and knew one to two years ago that AMD was coming back in a big way, or the much more likely answer that they've been sitting on new features and performance because they wanted to milk the previous generation for all it was worth. I find the later to be reprehensible, which is why I will be building an new AMD system, even if it doesn't give me quite the top performance I might get from an Intel chip, because I appreciate them driving competition again (P.S. my last system was Intel because AMD wasn't really competing when I built it).

      It's called business strategy, and obviously Intel wants AMD around. Sure, they could kill AMD at the drop of a hat with some killer technology that makes current CPUs obsolete with 10x faster ones. However, they didn't. (And yes, they've even publicly said they were holding back a chip release when Bulldozer turned out to be a flop).

      There's no doubt Intel could crush AMD at any moment. And there's no doubt AMD was in serious trouble.

      But Intel chose to keep AMD around (there's probably a good reason why the Xbox One and PS4 are running AMD chips). Presumably, it's because AMD is a decent competitor - they're not terribly strong so they're nothing more than a yapping dog in the grand scheme of things, but they're also big enough that everyone considers them a competitor. Including the government.

      AMD failing would bring no end of grief to Intel - plenty of government oversight, anti-monopoly, even breakup. And never mind AMD's patents and cross licensing deals going up in smoke (which are probably doing more at keeping 3rd party x86 compatibles off the market - remember Cyrix? Via? Or the dozens of embedded 486 compatibles?).

      Yes, they have to deal with AMD releasing a good architecture now and again but Intel knows doing so means AMD will be less likely to be collapse. Even so, Intel's not really "competing" - these chips are still overpriced over AMD for not a lot more performance. It's enough to counter AMD, but not enough to take the wind out of AMD's sails. They want AMD to succeed because it means easier business overall.

      And FYI, I believe up to the 386, Intel was giving AMD the chip designs. The only reason AMD is in the x86 business is because people wanted to second-source the 8086 and other chips so Intel needed some other company to produce the chips too.

    17. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by WorBlux · · Score: 1

      Open Power, FTW. Cost and arm and a leg, but you can build a powerful system tha't s open from the bottom up.

    18. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by serviscope_minor · · Score: 3, Funny

      Quack 3 Arena absolutely *flew*.

      Was that a reboot of Duck Hunt that I missed?

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    19. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Rockoon · · Score: 1

      I openly admit that I'm a fan of AMD. However, I think it's reasonable to ask why Intel CPU's have not seen any large jump in performance or features until they had to, due to AMD competition, again.

      Your confusion is this:

      There has not been a large jump in performance for Intel parts. These chips are just higher core count, and you pay more for those extra cores.

      You will not see a big boost in performance from Intel until they figure out 10nm, which is 2+ years late now and things still arent looking good. The last word from Intel was "Q4 2017" but that was over a year ago. Intel is in big trouble. They beat everyone to 14nm/16nm by a large margin but then got stuck chasing a 3D transistor fantasy that just cant economically be reduced down to 10nm (their 14nm 3D trigates werent economical either, but they were so far ahead that that just didnt matter at the time.)

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    20. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Rockoon · · Score: 1

      Intel doesnt patent their process. They protect it via trade secrets instead, and it makes sense to do so because of how long it takes to spin up a fab.

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    21. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by spire3661 · · Score: 2

      At least they expire relatively quickly. MP3 is already Public Domain, as is most of MPEG2

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    22. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm guessing Intel did know for 1yr+. A project that takes this long it is near impossible to keep all the information in house. People leave the company, you start having to notify your channel and get them all excited for next year etc.

    23. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly. Why spend oddles on R & D to sell a better cheap for the same money next year when no competition is stealing your lunch? You keep the money printing press running till it starts to wear out.

    24. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Intel is sitting in tech they already have until they need to one up.

      That's old news.

    25. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by jabuzz · · Score: 1

      My calculations show that MPEG2 patents expire 18th February 2018, which is a mere 135 days from now.

    26. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by grasshoppa · · Score: 1

      Fuck. Drunk posting. Guilty as charged. ...although now I really want to play it.

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    27. Re: I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Key difference here is that even if Intel, or AMD, gouges prices at the high end, there are literally hundreds of computing options available. No one is legally requiring top of the line Intel machines for all schools. No one's life is in danger if they don't have a top of the line CPU.

    28. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Dripdry · · Score: 1

      Everything I've read in a couple reviews (I know, citation needed) indicates that they basically just bolted on 2 more cores. It doesn't appear there's much new. The extra heat is, apparently, above what AMD shows (though Intel runs at a higher clock speed).
      I could argue that the world doesn't need more computing power on each desktop, but "640K is enough!" so...

      Tangentially: What I'd like to see are benchmarks run on chipsets that keep the performance numbers pegged at a certain rate and then measure all the other performance metrics (such as heat and power usage) to see what comes out.

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    29. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Indeed, at least my institute seems open to buy me a Talos II workstation (2 chips, 32 threads).
      I also have a good justification for this: as scientist, I'm working on something (can't tell right now) that is a bit at the limit when you use double precision, and the Power 9 has quadruple precision implemented in hardware.
      The price is not outrageous when you buy only the motherboard and the processors (the quad code/16 threads procs are at $400 a pop, heatsink and fan included, which is very reasonable). The motherboard is expensive, but that's the fate of small series.

    30. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by cmaurand · · Score: 1

      I've been building nothing but AMD for a number of years. They've always run better than the equivalently priced Intel. We won't even get into the fact that AMD drives the x86 technology these days, not Intel.

    31. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We won't even get into the fact that AMD drives the x86 technology these days, not Intel.

      I was with you until this. That is some straight up retarded bullshit, and you are either an idiot or a fanboy--probably both.

    32. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

      Intel has had 18 core Xeons since 2014.

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    33. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by msi · · Score: 1

      If you only run AMD how do you know how they compare to an Intel solution?

    34. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      From what I have read, this seems needless rushed and runs really hot. Reminds me of the old AMD stuff where they pushed their chips to the point it recommended liquid cooling to handle it because they wanted to go further than the chip was meant to handle just trying to keep up.

    35. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... by toddestan · · Score: 1

      Exactly this. The single core performance isn't that much improved, which has been the story since Sandy Bridge. The performance improvements come almost entirely from the fact they have more cores. Keep in mind they've already been building chips like this in the Xeon line, so really it's just a matter of taking the Xeon's they were going to sell, disabling some features, and calling them i7's and i5's. And then taking what was going to be the i5 and making it the i3. There really isn't anything that ground-breaking here.

  3. Wrong by aliquis · · Score: 1

    Submitter likely meant base but the base frequency isn't even very relevant than the all core boost is higher and the power save brings it lower anyway.

    The i5 8400 has an all core boost of 3.8 GHz and a single core boost of 4.0 GHz, so the 2.8 base isn't as bad as it seem ..

    It's a great gamers chip.

  4. Meh by Aighearach · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think "bringing the heat" is going to scare the competition very much in this market. ;)

    1. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly! We, at Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education, couldn't agree more with you!

      For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.

      IMPORTANT UPDATE:
      Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
      http://www.keynamics.com/image...

      Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:

      Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.

      To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.

      The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!

      Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.

      I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
      http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...

      Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
      https://ibb.co/gVad65

      Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
      https://school.discoveryeducat...

      But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.

      Thank You dear users,
      -Nancy Guerrero

    2. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just like anybody would be dumb enough to follow your advice! Well except yourself, of course.

      Thanks anyway Creimy-Dumpty.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    3. Re:Meh by Z80a · · Score: 2

      Of course it will scare AMD, you know, when they put a machine running the new chip overclocked next to the AMD's headquarters.

    4. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or, it will be used to give excellent performance for users who already run lots of shit in parallel. I don't need my text editor to make efficient use of 12 threads - but I can certainly use the extra processors to power multiple virtual machines, docker containers, development applications, test frameworks, etc. all in parallel. Good riddance to the days of having to choose between running Eclipse, and running literally every other piece of software I used commonly in my development workflow.

      But I wouldn't expect you to understand that, creimer. I'm guessing you're a single-threaded sort of guy, who spends most of his day shitposting on Slashdot while "waiting for a python script to run."

    5. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      eclipse??? Are you serious?

      Creimy-Dumpty couldn't even figure out how to download and install it, forget about starting it and using it.

      This is way too complicated for him...

      https://school.discoveryeducat...

    6. Re:Meh by EndlessNameless · · Score: 1

      The leapfrog in performance is going to "put the heat" on developers to create software that takes full advantage of the extra cores and speed.

      It's almost like you have no idea how software development works. Anything that can parallelize beyond 4C/8T CPUs already runs on Xeon MP systems with dozens of cores. And no one is going to scream because their CPU is under 100% utilization.

      Developers may be able to push a little further or optimize a little less at the high end, but consumer apps still have to run on last-gen i3 and i5 systems. This product creates no serious pressure on developers.

      Possible exception for kernel devs---but only because they have to support the new product.

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  5. End use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What will the flagship be installed in? Dell? Apple? HP?

    1. Re: End use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My current motherboard is an MSI.

      Not sure what I would buy if I was buying one of these processors.

    2. Re:End use by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      You can be sure it won't be the Mac mini nor the MacBook Air.

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  6. need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new ch by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + need new chipset is a joke with no pci-e boost.

    AMD has more pci-e and usb on cpu die.

  7. AMD v Intel by harvey+the+nerd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Intel the dairy farmer, milking the world.

    One wonders whether we would still be running 286s if there were no AMD. It has been AMD that has made Intel actually compete in x86 space for 35+ yrs.

    1. Re: AMD v Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here is a clue:AMD made 80286 processors. They even made 8088 processors. They have always been a second source vendor.

    2. Re:AMD v Intel by gweihir · · Score: 4, Interesting

      There is a reason the current instruction set is called AMD64 and not Intel64. Intel actually licenses it from AMD, because they failed to come up with anything competitive. AMD cares more about engineering and Intel more about profits. Now, if only MS would get a credible competitor, maybe this atrocity going on with Windows would finally stop.

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    3. Re: AMD v Intel by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 2

      I remember swapping out an Evergreen AMD K6-2 400 (Spectra) into an Intel P133 socket 7 board, the thing came with the BIOS upgrade and poof I was seriously upgraded. I have been value shopping ever since.

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    4. Re:AMD v Intel by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      Pick up a copy of the book "Inside The AS/400". The design of the hardware is fascinating and years beyond this PC garbage we've been using for decades.

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    5. Re:AMD v Intel by JabrTheHut · · Score: 1

      Intel would be producing nothing of any noteworthy speed or performance if not for DEC's intellectual property. In the 90s DEC had the speed crown. Intel "borrowed" their IP, got sued and lost. But in the meantime DEC was gobbled up by Compaq and Compaq was much more interested in Intel as a partner than producing VMS or Unix servers.

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    6. Re: AMD v Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I remember 80286 systems... I do NOT miss them...

      80386 systems were a big leap forward... I would NOT have minded if we were ALL still using 80386 computers
      (except for goverments of course, they would still run whatever crazy high end stuff they have right now... lightning fast general purpose quantum computers most likely), ...running MSDOS and Windows 3.11 or OS/2 or Linux... Simpler times... Less horseshit!

    7. Re:AMD v Intel by serviscope_minor · · Score: 1

      Intel the dairy farmer, milking the world.

      How appropriate. You uh... make CPUs like a cow.

      > People fall at my feet when they see me coming!

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    8. Re:AMD v Intel by spire3661 · · Score: 1

      Intel and AMD have had a cross-licensing agreement in place since the 1970s...Intel gives WAY more in that exchange than AMD ever does. It cracks me up when people trot out AMD64 like it means anything. AMDs entire worth is a rounding error compared to Intel. Hell, Intel spent as much in R&D as AMDs entire worth for decades. AMDs market capitalization is at $12 billion, Intel's is $183 billion. They are not peers in any way, Intel utterly dominates AMD in technology and processes. AMD doesnt even have their own fab for crying out loud.

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    9. Re:AMD v Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And then go and read about VME (Virtual Machine Environment). ICLs (International Computers Limited) operating system which is now owned by Fujitsu. The original version had the instruction set and the processor designed as one entity. Security enforced by hardware registers.

      It makes other operating systems look like the toys they are.

    10. Re:AMD v Intel by blackomegax · · Score: 0

      mmm fanboi trolling Mail me your tears from all the butthurt you feel that ryzen is eating Intel's lunch. mmm

    11. Re:AMD v Intel by gweihir · · Score: 2

      And yet, AMD drives x86 CPU technology forward and not Intel. Apparently you missed that little detail, probably because you mistake money for skill.

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    12. Re:AMD v Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Former AS/400 analyst here.

      Yes, the 400 (now iSeries) has a terrific architecture. IBM separated the hardware and software environments rigorously and that allows them to change the hardware with little or no impact on the software (except the software just gets faster). The 400 is one of the best defined environments I've ever seen; there are standards for just about everything and the standards are pretty good too. Upgrades are straightforward and almost never break anything! You have no idea what "backwards compatibility" means until you've experienced it at this level.

      However. The 400 is far more like a mainframe in terms of the things that really matter to customers (UI, costs, support, the whole centralization imperative, I could go on and on). And those large systems, well the world has really moved away from them. Yes, I know all about the installed base and the loyal customers, seriously don't bother. I used to be one of those loyal customers.

      What do I miss about the 400? The backwards compatibility, the predictable standards environment, the superb (though expensive) support.

      There is one thing the world really needs to learn from the 400 though. The 400 has nearly perfect linear scaling. Parallel processing doesn't just work on this system, it works flawlessly. My guess it is due to the tight coupling of DB/2 with the operating system. I don't know how you achieve that when most systems only loosely couple the database with the OS. However this is one area where the 400 is unmatched, and it's an area that is a big problem for the computing market. That problem is only going to get bigger over time too.

    13. Re:AMD v Intel by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

      For most applications, without overclocking, an I7-7700K beats any Ryzen by a few percent. Intel's chip overclocks far better than AMD's. The I7-8700K is a few percent better than the i7-7700K. I like that AMD is back in the running, but they're not in the lead.

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    14. Re:AMD v Intel by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

      DEC got speed by pumping more electricity into a CPU chip than anyone else at the time dared to. Yes, their design was excellent, but that wasn't the breakthrough factor.

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    15. Re:AMD v Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't think anyone expected AMD to beat Intel in the top end. They lack the resources to throw at it (Partially due to Intel doing illegal stuff with their compilers and other companies to make sure AMD got cheated).

      What AMD does beat Intel at is bang for the buck when you consider the full prices of the systems.

      But absolutely no one paying attention expected AMD to beat Intel in the top of the top ends. The fact they handed Intel their asses so well in just bang for the buck and holding their own surprised many. Let alone if they can keep it up and get to the smaller scales to match Intel.

  8. Re:need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new by sexconker · · Score: 1

    DMI 3.0 is trash tier. Fucking 4 PCIe 3.0 links for all that I/O (including USB)? bottleNECK!

  9. Forget Ryzen by Carnildo · · Score: 1

    Forget Ryzen. I'd like to see one of the latest CPUs benchmarked against a Core i7-3960X. 6C/12T, 3.3GHz base clock, 15MB of cache, fully buzzword-compliant. Oh, and it's almost six years old.

    Honestly, it's hard to get excited about "bringing the heat" when we're talking about single-digit percentage gains. There hasn't been a breakthrough in either clock speed or IPC in years, and even core counts have remained pretty much the same.

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    1. Re:Forget Ryzen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's pretty easy to do....https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=903&cmp[]=3038

      Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake are much faster as they should be.

    2. Re:Forget Ryzen by viperidaenz · · Score: 2

      It's about 50% faster in both single and multi-threaded benchmarks with only 20% higher clock speed.
      It's 95W instead of 130W TDP. That 95W TDP includes a GPU as well, the 3960X doesn't have one.
      And it's being released at less than half the price the 3960x was. (3960k was RRP of $1059, 8700k is RRP of $359)

      50% faster, 60% cheaper with 30% less power isn't single-digit. But then that is 6 years.
      You're also comparing an "extreme" edition with k-series CPU. Even though the 3960X had quad channel memory (so despite memory speed doubling, it has similar bandwidth) and more cache, it still got pantsed.

    3. Re:Forget Ryzen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Core counts have remained the same? Did you see Threadripper?

    4. Re:Forget Ryzen by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      It's about 50% faster in both single...... threaded benchmarks with only 20% higher clock speed.

      How did they do that? Serious question.

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    5. Re:Forget Ryzen by viperidaenz · · Score: 2

      More instructions per cycle?
      Through the different Core generations they've been refining/tweaking the number of ports and the execution units behind them.

      don't know what they've done with Coffee lake by skylake/kaby lake is here:
      https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/i...

    6. Re:Forget Ryzen by gweihir · · Score: 1

      There are no major performance gains to be expected. This technology is now approaching maturity, which means it will slowly get cheaper and consume less power, but it will not get much faster anymore. Maybe we will eventually see something 2x as fast for desktop loads eventually, but that could take half a century or longer. There is still significant potential in writing software better, in particular in making it more parallel, but even that is limited and it is hard to do.

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    7. Re:Forget Ryzen by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      Oh that's really great, thanks. I didn't realize how much complexity there is in there. It's also fascinating that most of the complexity already there had the purpose of (and was successful at) making the chip go faster....and yet it can be optimized more.

      btw SGX looks like a security nightmare, but MPX looks like it could be useful.

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    8. Re:Forget Ryzen by thegreatbob · · Score: 1

      My overclocked i7-3820 (LGA2011 -3000 CPUs are Sandy Bridge, if anyone ever runs into that confusion) which clocks all cores to 4.1GHz (could do 4.3 on all cores, but it gets a tad warm, so i keep it to 1 @ 4.3) seems to keep up with modern workloads. The things to take away from any results are not just the obvious gains in efficiency and performance, but also radical decline in the pace of improvements over the last ~7 years. I have a preference to refit my stuff whenever the cost/performance ratio (subjective to my own requirements, of course) has roughly doubled, and it has been a long 5 years. I'm still waiting on intel, but AMD's stuff is becoming appealing to me.

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    9. Re:Forget Ryzen by thegreatbob · · Score: 1

      I'm assuming he was referring to Intel just now arriving at the 6-core consumer chip party.

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    10. Re:Forget Ryzen by thegreatbob · · Score: 1

      (I'm also being somewhat forgiving of AMD's Bulldozer stuff, so we'll stick with integer compute unit as the primary constituent of a 'core')

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    11. Re:Forget Ryzen by Lord+Crc · · Score: 1

      One element is better branch prediction.

      Here's a paper detailing the branch predicition improvements of the last Intel platforms and their impact on scripting language execution: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document

      Our measures clearly show that, on Nehalem,
      on most benchmarks, 12 to 16 MPKI are encountered, that is about 240 to 320 cycles are lost every 1 kiloinstructions. On the next processor generation Sandy Bridge, the misprediction rate is much lower: generally about 4 to 8 MPKI on Javascript applications for instance, i.e. decreasing the global penalty to 80 to 160 cycles every Kiloinstructions. On the most recent processor generation Haswell, the misprediction rate further drops to 0.5 to 2 MPKI in most cases, that is a loss of 10 to 40 cycles every kiloinstructions.

      That's an order of magnitude difference. In their their Python benchmark the Nehalem has an average of ~1.5 instructions per clock (IPC) while Haswell has an average of ~2.4 IPC, a 50% increase over Nehalem. The branch predictor is likely a big factor in this.

      Of course scripting languages is a "worst-case" of sorts, but lots of real-world code feature similar indirection for which improved branch prediction helps a lot.

    12. Re:Forget Ryzen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      phantomfive asked a serious question and viperidaenz gave an informative answer.

      What is happening to slashdot?

      Is this a sign that the end times are near?

    13. Re:Forget Ryzen by bongey · · Score: 1

      95W TDP , Wink , Wink add 65w , 159 W in a torture loop at the rail, and it always consumes more power than an 1800x OC except when idle http://www.tomshardware.com/re... .

    14. Re:Forget Ryzen by viperidaenz · · Score: 1

      It appears to consume 20% more power than an 1800x, while producing 50% higher benchmark scores. Sounds like better performance per watt to me.

      But what does anything I said before have to do with an AMD CPU? All the numbers I put up are comparing two Intel CPU's

  10. You save on the cost of the backdoor. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Intel Management Engine is free. You'll love that Trucoat.

  11. Stop Intel AMT/ME easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Stop it's ability to send info. outward via router port filtering ala ports 16992-16995 that Intel AMT/ME uses so filter those ports in a modem/router external to OS/PC. Intel ME/AMT operates from your mobo but has NO CONTROL OF YOUR MODEM/ROUTER!

    (This stops it cold talking in/out permanently OR being able to remotely 'patch' it to use other ports by Intel OR malicious actors/malware makers etc.!)

    Additionally, once you disable the AMT engine's software interface (ez via software is out there that I trust more than Intel's uninstall in fact)? A malware to 'repatch' this = impossible (bios updaters require it in usermode ware, e.g. ASUS).

    (I only allow 80, 8080 & 443 in/out here on a SINGLE stand-alone system (no home LAN but TCP/IP connected online in BOTH my modem or router port filters or software firewalls))

    HOWEVER - Be CERTAIN your modem/router's internal ware is "solid" as well (turn off things like UPnP etc. & CHECK router/modem HAS NO KNOWN BACKDOOR EXPLOITS (tons do unfortunately)) - get it patched ASAP if it's KNOWN exploited & TONS of routers, ARE https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9995967&cid=53488785/

    * GOOD ROUTERS/MODEMS HAVE PORT FILTERING OPTIONS (crappy ones do not)!

    APK

    P.S.=> Good luck - it's the BEST EASIEST & CHEAPEST DEFENSE using what you already have (hopefully, again as not ALL modems have port filtering but most do & certainly GOOD ONES DO) vs. this threat by stopping it being able to communicate in/out period, from OUTSIDE of the INTEL chipset external to it via a router/firewall hardware... apk

    1. Re:Stop Intel AMT/ME easily... apk by cfalcon · · Score: 1

      That's a solid start, and, unfortunately, it is mostly a finish as well. Unfortunate because when it comes to the ME, we only know what it is *supposed* to do, not what it actually does. It may, for instance, look at an entirely different port than it claims to, or look for certain patterns in packets in other ways, or magic numbers that wouldn't occur normally. Depending on your hardware, you may be capable of disabling the management engine on Intel's via some external hardware reprogramming device, and there's some flag that isn't available to the consumer but is available to system integrators which can result in the ME not being loaded (and some, like Purism, are chasing this down).

      But the router stuff is still good, and should work against the known ME exploit or two, and probably others that haven't been found yet.

  12. Drivel. Compare vs. Actual Ryzen/Threadripper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Intel FanBoi crud. No actual competitive performance details == SPECIOUS review. Did Intel pay for the review?

  13. Re:need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new by aliquis · · Score: 1

    Ryzen has 24 lanes of which 16x will/may be used for graphics and 4x for the chipset and then another 4x from the CPU and Intel have "20" of which 4 (DMI 3 8 GT/s) is for the chipset right?

    So yeah, a lead of 4 for Ryzen.

    But if you NEED more PCI-express then Intel have HEDT and AMD have Threadripper. But sure, more would be nice, and Zen+ people speculate will have PCI-express 4.0, that's of course nice. I feel you're right pointing out this flaw and it one but I don't really know what I should be doing about it. Sure Ryzen 7 may be a bit better because of this, even though I feel connectivity is pretty limited there too.

  14. Hyperthreading by manu0601 · · Score: 1

    Summary notes hyper threading is removed. What is the point? Did that technology became a liability?

    1. Re:Hyperthreading by GumphMaster · · Score: 1

      The summary does not use the term 'removed.' The Core i5, to which the 'no Hyper-Threading' comment applies, never had Hyper-Threading to start with. The i7 models continue to have Hyper-Threading.

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    2. Re:Hyperthreading by Babel-17 · · Score: 1

      Still there on the i7, the i5 now has six physical cores, up from four physical cores. IIRC i saw today that at least one of the i3 processors will now have four physical cores, that's up from two cores plus two hyperthreaded ones, so I guess it's what the i5 used to be thought as being. But yeah, where are the four core + four hyperthread CPUs? I'm guessing they get introduced later, and the same with two core/two hyperthread lower end i3s. How will Intel brand the the four core + four hyperthread CPUs, as i5s or i7s? Depending on clock speed they could fit under either.

    3. Re:Hyperthreading by thegreatbob · · Score: 1

      One should also note that laptop parts muddy that a bit (both i5 and i7 have 2C 4T, and i7 with 4C 8T), though it's somewhat outside of the context of this discussion.

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    4. Re: Hyperthreading by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And that's just the tip of the ice berg.

      I have a i7-6600U here, which is just 2 cores.

  15. Do you have any solid evidence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do you have any solid evidence of other ports it uses? Minus it your 'theories' are unfounded. IF YOU DO THOUGH?? Let it rip!

    * Makes me laugh since Windows Update (Win7 here) keeps asking if I want an 'updated' driver for Intel AMT/ME... no "f'ing" way! Not now (or ever, lol) - why? What you said - patch to alter ports etc. (lines of communique etc.).

    APK

    P.S.=> I read up on it way, Way, WAY BEFORE it was "big news" & mainly due to the "/. 'doomsayer'" that posted on it for MONTHS (& I took a read) who actually HAD valid reputable sources on it that reported what ports it uses (thus, only way to RELIABLY block them was external to PC/mainboard via router port filtering)... apk

    1. Re:Do you have any solid evidence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It also uses ports between 1024 and 65535.

  16. Cost of these parts? by Streetlight · · Score: 1

    Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see the price of these guys. Any information out there? And what about the cost of motherboards?

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    1. Re:Cost of these parts? by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 1

      Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see the price of these guys. Any information out there? And what about the cost of motherboards?

      $500 looks to be the base https://www.newegg.com/Product...

  17. Re:need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I keep seeing this angst about PCIe lanes, but what do you actually need them for?

    16x from the CPU, with 2x8 and 1x8 + 2x4 modes for dual or triple SLI is perfectly fine for the vast majority of workloads. (You'll be limited elsewhere before the GPU bus speed matters unless you're doing something very specialised)

    Then on the z270 and z370 platforms there's 24 lanes down a shared 4 lane equivalent to the CPU. You may argue you need it for NVMe RAID0, but you probably don't. Flash drives are already effectively RAID0 devices, with few NVMe drives able to saturate a x4 PCIe3.0 link. In many cases buying a larger drive is similar to running two smaller drives in RAID0 already, as they spread the writes amongst more flash chips. eg: 2 x 250GB drives Vs the 500GB version of the drive.

    If you really need more PCIe lanes, you probably really want one of the HEDT platforms anyway, because you also need more memory channels.

  18. Re:need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new by gweihir · · Score: 1

    AMD always had vastly superior integration, e.g. the memory controller on the CPU half a decade before Intel.

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  19. Re:Drivel. Compare vs. Actual Ryzen/Threadripper by gweihir · · Score: 1

    Likely. They have done so in the past. They have been punished for anti-competitive behavior. don't ever expect Intel to play fair.

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  20. VROC Scam by BenJeremy · · Score: 1

    As long as Intel continues to try and push the VROC scam, I know I'll be taking my business to AMD.

    AMD also now offers RAID-0 for NVMe, with similar performance - and without the extra cost of a (still non-existant) "upgrade key".

    Even better, M.2 sockets on X399 motherboards are running CPU lanes, where X299 motherboard-mounted M.2s are DMI and actually require an add-on card for full performance.

    1. Re:VROC Scam by bongey · · Score: 1

      You forgot the TDP scam also, basically under certain loads it basically doubles to 160W http://www.tomshardware.com/re...

  21. ECC? by avgapon · · Score: 0

    How about ECC? And how many PCI-E lanes are there? TFA seems to be thin on details about aspects where Intel doesn't shine.

    1. Re:ECC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also, what about the combined price of CPU+motherboard versus AMD?

    2. Re:ECC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Intel segments the market to use ECC for mainstream Core processors. This is not a technical issue insomuch as it being a decision to up-sell that feature as fault-tolerance to the enterprise market.

  22. My sentiments exactly. by bdwoolman · · Score: 1

    My next rig will be AMD from stem to stern no matter what Intel is shipping.

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  23. Re:Drivel. Compare vs. Actual Ryzen/Threadripper by gravewax · · Score: 1

    The link is to hothardware, did you honestly expect a decent article from their? they spam them to Slashdot as the only way to get suckers to read their garbage.

  24. Re:Drivel. Compare vs. Actual Ryzen/Threadripper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Given the site the article comes from I would actually far more favour simple bad journalism and Fanboi crud as the OP indicated. If Intel was going to buy reviews they are hardly going to use that joke of a site as a target.

  25. A lake, full of coffee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just thinking about a lake full of hot coffee gives me the jitters.

  26. Does it Crash like Ryzen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've been trying to survive using a Linux box with a Ryzen and it just constantly crashes. I'm this close (holding fingers really close together) to just pitching the whole thing.

  27. Re:need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ryzen has 24 lanes of which 16x will/may be used for graphics and 4x for the chipset and then another 4x from the CPU and Intel have "20" of which 4 (DMI 3 8 GT/s) is for the chipset right?

    So yeah, a lead of 4 for Ryzen.

    But if you NEED more PCI-express then Intel have HEDT and AMD have Threadripper. But sure, more would be nice, and Zen+ people speculate will have PCI-express 4.0, that's of course nice. I feel you're right pointing out this flaw and it one but I don't really know what I should be doing about it. Sure Ryzen 7 may be a bit better because of this, even though I feel connectivity is pretty limited there too.

    You are forgetting SATA ports and USB 3.1 gen1 and gen2 is also coming from cpu

  28. That's NOT solid evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's NOT solid evidence from a reputable source. Here's mine regarding port ranges I noted it uses https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22Intel+AMT%22+and+%22port%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/ noting ports I specifically noted to block out vs. Intel Mgt. Engine/AMT etc.!

    * LOL - & even IF you were right + had a valid reputable source backing you w/ solid research? SEE MY PS BELOW NEXT...

    APK

    P.S.=> As you can read/see, nothing noted gets thru my router setup of PORT FILTERING vs. it (only allows 80, 8080 & 443 which NONE of those sources indicate it uses SO thus, my ruleset works vs. Intel AMT/Intel Mgt. Engine bs)... apk

  29. I remember the speed race by p51d007 · · Score: 1

    Back in the 386-486 days Now, except for benchmark & high end 3D games, does it really matter?

    1. Re:I remember the speed race by sabbede · · Score: 1

      Slight, nit-picky, correction - games with a lot of AI processing. Not necessarily 3D.

    2. Re:I remember the speed race by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      CFD, computational fluid dynamics, used in weather prediction, for a start.
      Although GPU which can do double precision are harder to program, but faster.

    3. Re:I remember the speed race by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

      Photographic sharpening by deconvolution. Typical run night take 20 minutes, then look at the result to see if it's any better (it's usually not). Try a new set of parameters, rinse and repeat.

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  30. Re:need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new by aliquis · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting SATA ports and USB 3.1 gen1 and gen2 is also coming from cpu

    On Ryzen?
    I saw he said that.

    Care to link or explain it in full instead of just dropping so little information?

    http://www.amd.com/en-us/produ...
    List 2+10+6 USB on X370 chipset, and 6 SATA + x2 NVMe or 4 SATA + x4 NVMe + 2 SATA express.
    But that's listed on chipset, not processor.

    What you mean? Suck that you posted as AC.

  31. Re:need more pci-e lanes (DMI is over subed) + new by aliquis · · Score: 1

    Was it you who posted as AC about SATA and USB from the CPU?
    At-least it mentioned here.

    Can you link some information.

  32. When did they stop Hyperthreading on all CPUs? by sabbede · · Score: 1

    I could swear that HT was a feature of all their chips since the last generation of Pentiums. When did that stop? Or am I wrong about all chips having it?

    1. Re:When did they stop Hyperthreading on all CPUs? by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

      Not all Intel CPUs have hyperthreading.
      Usually, i5 don't and i7 do. That is often the main difference between these two product lines.
      Lower end CPUs usually have it to make up for less physical cores.

    2. Re:When did they stop Hyperthreading on all CPUs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The strange thing is how random it was. i3's and pentiums had hyperthreading but only 2 cores while i5s had no hyperthreading but 4 cores. Now it seems you have to buy an i7 to get hyperthreading but to make up for it all the lower processors get 2 more cores (4 on i3 and 6 on i5).

      Of course all of this is moot because the only processor available at release is the i3-8350k which is essentially a kaby-lake i5, albeit at a slightly lower price.

    3. Re:When did they stop Hyperthreading on all CPUs? by sabbede · · Score: 1

      I thought they did, but I never have Intel money so I guess I never looked hard enough. Thanks for the answer.

  33. Re:Drivel. Compare vs. Actual Ryzen/Threadripper by gweihir · · Score: 1

    Well, possibly. There are so many zero-understanding tech-"journalists" today that this may well just be another useful idiot that was actually not paid off.

    --
    Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
  34. I'm Just Glad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm just glad there is some competition in this market again. I don't hate Intel and I don't get googly-eyed over AMD so it's not about that for me.

    We have to acknowledge that a big part of the magic of Information Technology has been our ability to get and use more powerful hardware every year. Competition in the CPU (and GPU, though Intel is very weak there) space helps deliver to market more and better hardware.

    Go competition!

  35. intel: no ECC RAM 4 u plebe / amd: too many errata by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The server/desktop split of Intel keeps driving me to AMD. I don't need the single-chassis performance or RAM capacity of multi-die server motherboards, but I still want ECC RAM. It's not worth my time debugging and recovering from the strange problems that RAM bitflips can cause.

    Likewise, Intel locks down supposedly fancy server features like iommu or certain kinds of virtualization to push the upsell. Fuck you, Intel, my general purpose computer should generally compute, not be limited to web browsing because it's the "desktop product line." And the PCIe lane stingyness, "Intel graphics is good enough for you, plebe," seems like even more obvious overstepping, but these other little things like lawyering over bits in /proc/cpuinfo have been going on over multiple generations.

    AMD always gives you all the features they have to give, across the product line.

    The only problem is, AMD reference designs of Phenom/Opteron era were really quirky. I have so many weird problems with audio, with lockups, with machines that hang during boot 1/5th of the time, with boot-from-network mysteriously not working on one motherboard, with requiring precise BIOS versions to get a certain chip to boot so I have to buy an older CPU just to update the BIOS. Many motherboards don't support ECC RAM in BIOS, so you have to use sketchy /proc peek/poke scripts to turn it on, and the Linux machine check modules aren't as good for AMD as for Intel. The Intel reference designs justwork, no fiddling. It makes me hesitant to invest in the Ryzen/Threadripper generation. The "gcc segfaultgate" thing makes me think these problems are not over.