[News] Intel's Six-core, Coffee Lake CPUs Surface in SiSoftware

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/232675/i...-in-sisoftware

Intel's upcoming Coffee Lake architecture, which is now all but confirmed to have been pulled forward by the company in an attempt to staunch the bleeding incurred from AMD's recently launched, table-turning Ryzen processors, has reared its head in SiSoftware. In some benchmarks, what is identified as a 6-core, 6-thread CPU from Intel surface, with a clockspeed @ 3.5 GHz, 1.5 MB L2 cache (256 Kb per core) and 9 MB L3 cache. This L3 cache is quite puzzling, considering how Intel's Kaby Lake architecture features 2 MB of L3 cache per core. If Coffee Lake were to keep most of Kaby Lake's design - which it will - then this chip should feature something along the lines of 12 MB L3 cache. The reduced amount of cache seems to scream at a disabled chip, but this could also be a case of a reporting error.

[niobium615]

I wonder if this is just an ES/reporting error(would correspond with the 9MB L3 Cache), or if Intel is really trying to swing at Ryzen with by including both a 6-core with and without hyperthreading in their consumer product stack.