It appears that Intel’s roadmap has been leaked online. According to this leak, Intel will not launch any new architecture for the mainstream desktop in 2018. As such, gamers should not expect a new 10nm or an Ice Lake CPU in 2018.
At the end of next year, Intel will start replacing the Skylake-X with the Cascade Lake-X CPUs. However, there is no word about Ice Lake or Cannonlake. Moreover, there is nothing new for S Processors (this is what gamers should be focused on). What this basically means is that, if this roadmap is to be believed, Intel will not release a new architecture for desktop CPUs in 2018.
As such, those gamers that were on the fence – regarding a future CPU upgrade – won’t have anything to look forward to. Okay okay, Intel will release some new Coffee Lake CPUs (dual-cores and other models for 300 series). However, these CPUs do not target enthusiast gamers.
Ultimately, Intel’s i7 8700K will remain the best Intel CPU for gaming in 2018. It comes with 6 cores, supports 12 threads, is clocked at 3.7Ghz and can be turbo-boosted at 4.7Ghz.
On the other hand, AMD will most likely release the Ryzen 2 CPUs in 2018. Therefore, it will be interesting to see whether the red team will be able to come closer to Intel’s gaming performance. AMD has a chance here, so here is hoping that it will seize this rare opportunity!
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But of course they wont.. The CFL was a q1 2018 product that was pushed way forward way to early to battle zen, and it failed because it is a mother of paper launches on par with amd VEGA
p.s Rzyen 2 is not zen2 it is zen +
Can’t really say that I’m surprised. I gave up on waiting on 10nm Cannonlake and went ahead and did a 7700k build several months ago. I fully expect it to be more than enough for around 4 years with a couple of high end GPU upgrades along the way. Maybe by that time there will be a greater necessity for a 6 or possibly 8 core CPU for gaming.
Really on the Intel side of the fence they have the majority of users covered very well from entry level i3 Kaby Lake on up to upper midrange 6 core Coffee Lake. For the ones that really need an 8 core or more Intel for other things than gaming then they are available but expensive.
AMD is doing better than they have in a long, long time as far as competition for Intel with Ryzen and if they can get the IPC up with Ryzen 2 then even better.
All in all the CPU situation looks like we have plenty of performance available right now for several years to come so Intel probably doesn’t see any reason to push 10nm.
The first iteration of 10 nm is worse than the 14nm++ that we have today. when intel releases 10 nm it will go against zen2 7 nm
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so called “10 nm”
Intel milking customers wherever they can? I’m shocked!
Sounds like they really haven’t been able to sort out all of the 10nm issues yet.
hey guys i’m doing a research on nvidia’s market and anything related to the company, does anyone know a good place to start?
Buuuuuu I wanted to upgrade, now there is no point, if you buy the CPU you can’t buy the video card because navi is around the corner I wanted to upgrade in August when it probably will be released the 1180ti ;(
Sorry I meant volta, navy is AMD XD
Can’t wait to upgrade to Zen+ early next year.
Still sitting on my 4790k… come on Intel, gimme that 10nm, It’s been 4 years, give me a real reason to upgrade, or Zen 2 will instead.
3770k @ 4.4-4.6ghz here.
Would love to have a reason to upgrade, but spend all the money on new videocards instead! 😀
8700K is awesome. 50% more power/cores then previous 6700/7700 at same price. Nice mobo’s at low price also now. I really fail to find anything to complain about. Almost makes me sad about my 6700K, but then again – I cannot max it out in any games.