It appears that the final specifications and prices for all of Intel’s upcoming Comet Lake-S CPUs have been leaked online. The specs and prices come from Intel’s own slides, so this is a legit leak. And even though we don’t have any benchmarks yet, we expect to see some in a couple of days.
In case you weren’t aware of, Intel aims to officially reveal its Comet Lake-S CPUs on April 30th. As such, the first gaming benchmarks will most likely go live on that same day.
According to the specs, the top high-end model will be the Intel Core i9-10900K model. This CPU will have 10 CPU cores, will support 20 threads, will cost $488 and will can turbo boosted to 5.1Ghz. However, and thanks to the new Intel Thermal Velocity Boost, it can go up to 5.3Ghz.
Alongside this new feature, Intel’s new CPUs will support Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0. They will also support up to DDR4-2933, and will have enhanced Core & Memory overclocking capabilities. Intel will also introduce the new Intel 400 series chipset motherboards that will have support for 2.5G Intel Ethernet Connection I225 (Foxville). Lastly, all i3 and i5 CPUs will have Hyper Threading support.
Kudos to HD-Tecnologia for leaking the following slides!
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i9 – Kinda in no man’s land. Not enough of a gaming upgrade to be worth it over the i7, and I don’t expect it to compete in productivity with the 3900X
i7 – The 10700KF isn’t too terribly priced by Intel’s standards. I can see people who were interested in 9900K gaming performance going for this at $350
i5 – Not cheap enough to compete with the 3600(X). You’ll need those high clock speeds to compete with Ryzen, in gaming or non gaming tasks, and the K parts are $240+ and don’t come with a cooler (as far as we know). 3600 has been as low as $175, and prices will only continue to drop.
i3 – Hugely missed opportunity to not unlock all SKU’s by default. If the 10100 was unlocked at $120, it would be compelling over the 3300X.
No, 1080p. Maybe 1440p too once new GPU’s come out, but most setups will be GPU limited at 4K.
Okay, Bill Gates
If you have a 60hz monitor/TV or game capped at 60fps then yeah 4K is the play but other than that no.
1440p/144fps > 4K/60fps. Hell even 1080p with good Reshade effects like Colorfulness, Clarity, Sharpen, FakeHDR, Vibrance and etc looks just as good as 1440p.
but when games will start asking for more cores and threads you will still stutter badly even with most of the load on the gpu
The i7 1070k is a i9 9900k wooow.
They support.. slower RAM? I must be misinterpreting that memory speed information.
Either way, If you can hold tight for something like another year or so, DDR5 will begin to be supported and this would be like building a new rig right before the new generation begins.
Intel’s 11th gen, slated for next year, will still be on DDR4. Leaked AMD slides show them bringing DDR5 in 2022. If you need to upgrade your CPU, waiting 2 years for a new memory standard is ridiculous. The CPU’s we have today are amazing, and the technology will continue to progress quickly.
That’s just max RAM speed for locked CPU’s and chipsets. Intel’s memory support is very good, you’ll be able to go much higher than 2933 on Z series boards with good memory kits.
Sapphire Rapids will be the first Intel chip to implement support in 2021. No specific idea when they’ll start shipping DDR5 for consumer boards and when they will become easily available.
Don’t be a moron, it’s not ridiculous, it’s simply something to consider. Use your brain.
As I already said, we know Intel’s 11th gen consumer desktop CPUs (Rocket Lake?) will use DDR4 because they’re going to slot into the upcoming Z490 boards. The fact that they’ll have DDR5 on servers next year doesn’t mean sh*t to anyone reading this article. Therefore, expect 2022 for consumers at the earliest we can expect. There’s no point in holding out that long if you need a new CPU. If you’re good with what you have for another 2 years, you’re probably not even thinking about upgrading.
Also, the first wave of a new memory spec is usually very expensive on release, and speeds aren’t very good for until maybe a year or two after launch.
It all depends on what the person is wanting to upgrade from. True? Yes. True. Something to consider.
And how do You know exact spec of first DDR5 modules ?
If history is anything to go by I would venture and say that first DDR5 will be slower than top ends DDR4 same as it was with DDr3 vs DDR4.
So it’s not year of waiting it’s more.
Yup, fck intel. Looks like ill be sticking with ryzen for the foreseeable future.
not interested at all. i will consider intel’s 7nm or at least 10nm.. for now, ryzen FTW..
still being 14nm this cpu gen should had supported older motherboards imagine someone with a i5 8400 upgrading to a 10400 gaining twice as much threads but i guess intel dont like money
i wonder who they are targeting as customers apart gamers than need every frame possible and the highest 0.1%-1% lows and slightly better frametimes in general
but again not by a large margin the days when the fx9590 being their best cpu and not being able to match third gen i3 in games and being beaten by i5 2500k in almost everything else are long gone
i have to say i like my 9700k its still the best cpu for gaming atm its equivalent to 9900k 16thread dont bring better performances in games,hell sometimes hyperthreading affect games performances badly, but i worry for the near future when games will need more cores and threads and my only way to upgrade is to buy a new mobo/cpu combo 🙁
This Z490 architecture is supposed to also be forward-compatible with Intel 11th gen desktop CPUs and PCIe 4.0, so you’ll have a chance to upgrade at least once if you buy 10th gen.
You are right about needing more threads in the future bud. With both next gen consoles using 8c/16t CPUs we will start to see games in the future wanting more threads. Microsoft says 7c/14t are dedicated to games on Series X, and I am sure Sony and PS5 will follow suit.
Games on Series X can use SMT or not according to Microsoft, it is up to the game dev. So 7c/14t or just 7c/7t. Games will start to use all cores and threads available on the next gen consoles as next gen moves on. So the 9700k will be short on quite a few threads. I believe the 8400/8600k/9400/9600k and R5 3500X will age the worst though. You are in a better boat then those CPUs.
That is one of the reasons I went with an 3700x last year. And I use a program call “Project Mercury” that disables SMT for any game that like on the fly, no system restart required. And that increases FPS for me in the games that don’t like SMT and I can still use SMT in games that do like it. Win-win. And I have always only bought CPUs with HT/SMT for as long as CPUs with HT/SMT have been available anyway.
Sure a 5ghz 9700k is a beast, no doubt about it, it will give my 3700x a hiding in max fps output. But I agree with you about its longevity. CPUs without SMT/HT historically age poorly. Like i5 4c/4t vs i7 4c/8t. The i5s were better than the i7s in lots of games that did not like HT, same as now. But now the situation has reversed, you can still use the i7 4c/8t for new games, but an i5 4c/4t is terrible nowadays with newer demanding games.
Same with the higher IPC and higher frequency i5 7600k vs lower clocks and lower IPC R5 1600 debate years ago. Lots of reviewers and people were saying the i5 was a much better gaming CPU and a much better long term bet. Obviously they were wrong as the i5 has aged poorly and the R5 1600 has aged well. And you can still upgrade the R5 1600 to Ryzen 2,3 and maybe 4 on a large chunk of first gen Ryzen AM4 motherboards.
But don’t stress to much though bud. I expect it will be a few years before that will be a real issue for you. Maybe you can find a cheap 9900k sometime before it really becomes an issue anyway. Or maybe by that time we will have much better hardware on the market and we will both be upgrading anyway.
oooooweeeeee cant wait to get them cheap and good Intel CPUs
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I havn’t bought a new PC since 2013, anything at this point is like NASA to me
It’s been even longer for me. I have an i7 2600 (not even the K version!) and a lot of the games I’m playing lately are very CPU-intensive (Arma 3, DCS World, etc.). I can’t wait to grab a 10900k.
You have a massive upgrade waiting for you bud. I upgraded my i7 2600 non K last year to a 3700x.Obviously a massive upgrade and well worth the wait.
I have been loving the improvements. I like to wait for at least double the cores and threads and 40%+ IPC improvement if possible.
When you upgrade to your 10900k you will be getting a massive upgrade bud.I am excited for you.
haha, yeah no, not at those prices. COmbined with the expected mobo prices for new Intel CPU’s, I ain’t gonna budge.
Going Zen, and I don’t think I’ll be looking back for years to come. Wake me up when Intel takes over AMD in both cores, perf and objectively superior cheaper prices on all fronts, for 3-5 years straight.
Agreed. I am much more excited for Ryzen 4000. 10-15% IPC improvements and an 8 core CCX. I can’t wait to see what AMD has in store with 4000 series.
My 3700x is fantastic and I love it. But I am really waiting for the 4950x to drop. I can use the 16c/32t for work and the extra IPC gains and 8 core CCX for gaming is a serious bonus.
Great time to be an AMD owner and I won’t be switching either.
That is not “10th Gen,” Ice Lake is 10th Gen.
So maybe you need more brain cells?