Intel Core i3 8300 spotted online - Four cores and Eight threads!

[WYP]

Is this CPU too good to be true? Probably.



Read more on Intel's rumoured i3 8300 CPU.

 

[AlienALX]

YAWN. So it's a rebadged I5.

 

[looz]

i5s have hyperthreading now?

 

[AlienALX]

i5s have hyperthreading now?

Laptop ones do

 

[looz]

Well, techncially you're correct.

 

[Korreborg]

It cannot be right. Where would that leave the i5's.

 

[looz]

Rumours say that i5s will be 6 core processors in the future. But yeah, while 2c/4t is certainly behind 4c/4t, 4c/8t is most of the time equal to 6 cores.

 

[Gothmoth]

for now i call it a fake screenshot.

 

[kdawgmaster]

Laptop ones do

Laptop i5's have hyper threading if their the u based ones for lower power and they are 2 core 4 threads standard i5 laptops are still 4 core 4 and 4 core 8 thread is still reserved for i7's. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i5-processors.html

 

[KingBlueSlims]

It would "leave" them with 6 cores

 

[Ephruz]

The 8th gen i5s are supposed to have six cores and six threads. Maybe Intel knows six physical cores is better, even in multi-threaded tasks, than 4 cores and 8 threads. Or, the i3s will have three cores and six threads. However that would work.

 

[CRITICALThinker]

Since I assume DT line i5's will assume the role of lower binned i7's with HT disabled, they will be true 6 core, assuming that a HT core acts as 1/2 a core on average, then QC plus HT is ~= to 6 core. Depending on where that is IRL perf, it would be between i5 and i7 and likely marketed as such.

And we thought intel had too many skus already

 

[Dawelio]

Since I assume DT line i5's will assume the role of lower binned i7's with HT disabled, they will be true 6 core, assuming that a HT core acts as 1/2 a core on average, then QC plus HT is ~= to 6 core. Depending on where that is IRL perf, it would be between i5 and i7 and likely marketed as such.

And we thought intel had too many skus already

Am I the only one who didn't understand a clue of what he said here? :huh:...

 

[Peters]

It cannot be right. Where would that leave the i5's.

6 core none ht.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I'd be really curious to see whether an i3 4c/8t CPU could overtake a 6c/6t i5 in certain instances.