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?
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