More importantly, the slide means that “Comet Lake” can have a market presence spanning Q1 and Q2 2020, that means that the 10 nm “Ice Lake” will not arrive on the desktop platform till at the very least Q3 2020. It’s seemingly that the LGA1200 platform which debuts with “Comet Lake” will prolong to “Ice Lake,” so customers aren’t compelled to purchase a brand new motherboard inside a span of six months. The platform diagram put out in one other slide junks the concept of an on-package MCM of the processor and PCH dies (which was seemingly ripped off from the “Ice Lake-Y” MCM platform diagram).
The new platform combines a “Comet Lake” processor with an Intel 400-series PCH, which discuss to one another over DMI 3.0, which gives comparable bandwidth PCI-Express 3.Zero x4. The AMD “Valhalla” platform implements PCI-Express 4.Zero x4 between the SoC and X570 chipset. The platform’s most important PCI-Express x16 slot will stay gen 3.0.
Intel seems to have put a lot of its efforts into enhancing its 14 nanometer node one final time, and growing core-counts with the introduction of a brand new 10-core silicon that does away with iGPU. With its “Skylake” core IPC inside 5% of that of “Zen 2,” and gaming efficiency management nonetheless held onto by a hair’s breadth, Intel will concentrate on bolstering multi-thread efficiency by enabling HyperThreading on even its Core i5 and Core i3 desktop processor fashions, whereas offering extra cores to the Dollar in comparison with its ninth era “Coffee Lake Refresh.”
The Core i3 collection might be 4-core/8-thread, the Core i5 collection 6-core/12-thread, the Core i7 collection 8-core/16-thread, and the flagship Core i9 collection 10-core/20-thread. Intel will leverage its refined 14 nm node to extend clock-speeds throughout the board, with its 10-core silicon having a TDP score of 125 W, and never the 105 W we noticed the opposite day. The Gen 9.5 iGPU on the 4/6/8-core fashions might be bolstered with extra options by way of software program, and be branded below the UHD 700-series.
With its mainstream desktop platform embattled, Intel will attempt to appease the PC fanatic crowd by launching a brand new HEDT (high-end desktop) platform based mostly on “Cascade Lake,” codenamed “Glacial Falls,” by This fall-2019. The new 14 nm “Cascade Lake-X” processor might be suitable with present X299 chipset motherboards by way of a BIOS replace, supply CPU core-counts of as much as 18, TDP of as much as 165 W, and elevated efficiency by way of increased clock-speeds. It will compete with AMD’s present 2nd era Ryzen Threadripper household. AMD’s plans for a third era Threadripper based mostly on the “Rome” MCM is on the back-burner even when not lifeless, with the corporate specializing in ensuring it sells the high-margin 2nd era EPYC processor in sufficient volumes.
