[News] Intel Core i3-8300 Detailed - First Quad-Core i3

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/235885/i...t-quad-core-i3

Intel Core i3-8300 could be the company's first quad-core processor to bear the Core i3 badge. Based on the 14 nm "Coffee Lake-S" silicon, This SKU could be priced in the upper-band of the Core i3 lineup (around the USD $150 mark), offering four cores. As if that isn't surprising enough, this quad-core chip even reportedly features HyperThreading, enabling 8 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with.

For the first time, a Core i3 part will have more logical CPUs than a Core i5 part, which lacks HyperThreading. Such a feature disparity won't be new, as current Core i3 dual-core SKUs feature HyperThreading, which Core i5 quad-core parts lack. The i3-8300, however, will lack Turbo Boost, which Core i5 SKUs will feature. The chip reportedly features a clock speed of 4.00 GHz. The L3 cache amount and TDP of this chip remain unknown at this point. Intel could launch Core i3 "Coffee Lake" processors only by late-2017 or early-2018.

[Andi64]

So, according to this a Core i3 8300 is a 4C/8T 4.0Ghz CPU....

Kinda sounds like a Core i7 to me. AMD sent Intels i7 to the i3 performance league :P

[alpha0ne]

intel vs AMD........................and the winner is.............................me

[drmrlordx]

Looks like HT is disabled on these i3s. They are basically rebranded i5s. There appears to be no 4c/8t option in the Coffeelake generation . . . at least not yet.

You get 4c/4t, 6c/6t, and 6c/12t. Interesting.

[Sparky]

intel vs AMD........................and the winner is.............................me

Bingo.

[StyM]

[zanzabar]

8MB of cache on a non HT part is weird, and it says they support ECC. seems like a fake.