[News] 8th Gen Core "Cannon Lake" Over 15% Faster Than Kaby Lake: Intel

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/230541/8...aby-lake-intel

At an investor meeting in February, Intel touched upon its performance guidance for its 8th generation Core processor family due for later this year. Based on the 14 nm "Cannon Lake" silicon, these processors are expected to have a bigger performance gain over the preceding 7th gen Core "Kaby Lake" micro-architecture, than Kaby Lake had over its predecessor, the 6th gen Core "Skylake."

In a slide titled "advancing Moore's Law on 14 nm," Intel illustrated how Kaby Lake processors are on average 15 percent faster than Skylake parts, in SYSmark. While Kaby Lake has negligible IPC gains over Skylake, the newer chips are clocked significantly higher, making up Intel's performance targets. Unless Cannon Lake is a significantly newer micro-architecture than Kaby Lake, we could expect them to come with even higher clock speeds. Will the Core i7-8700K be a 5 GHz chip?

[iddqd]

They could also just put a Crystalwell cache on them. Easy 15%. The 5775C (Broadwell), equipped with the 1st-gen Crystalwell cache, embarrasses the 6700K, despite being clocked much lower, with slower memory.

[AliG]

I'm fairly convinced most of this will be GPU and clockspeed innovation. Note the graph: it shows 15% increase in systemark from Skylake to Kaby Lake.

We all know Kaby Lake is effectively the same core tuned to clock higher, with a better GPU. My hunch is that's the type of innovation Intel is planning - not an architectural overhaul (if anything I thought Cannon Lake was the die shrink).

[EternityZX9]

Is Cannon lake even coming out for desktop? Pretty sure I read an article on this website with indications of Cannon lake being mobile only part. And if Cannon lake isn't a mobile only part - what's the point of releasing Coffee lake in Q1 2018?

[vario]

Is Cannon lake even coming out for desktop? Pretty sure I read an article on this website with indications of Cannon lake being mobile only part. And if Cannon lake isn't a mobile only part - what's the point of releasing Coffee lake in Q1 2018?

Coffee lake got upgraded to 6 core mainstream parts.

[FlanK3r]

I dont think, they are talking about Coffe Lake, look at picture ,-) Seems they are talking about SK-X (compared to BW-E 10c/20t) H2 2016 vs H2 2017

[drmrlordx]

Cannonlake won't make it to desktop. Icelake will.