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Over the past six weeks, AMD's Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 CPUs have been making Intel's life a bit difficult. Chipzilla's standard desktop lineup has been rattled by AMD's new chips, which offer higher core counts and better performance in many workloads for significantly less money. Intel, of course, was never going to take this lying down — and new rumors suggest the company will accelerate the launch of its Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs, pulling them forward to a June Computex unveiling as opposed to the original August timeline. Meanwhile, Intel will reportedly launch its Coffee Lake refresh in August of this year rather than waiting until January 2018.
14nm Coffee Lake will include Intel's first "mainstream" 6-core chip.
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AMD's Ryzen Could be Forcing Intel to Release "Coffee Lake" CPUs Sooner
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:29AM (3 children)
Once upon a time, processors had numbers, which related to the speed of the processor.
Now they have deliberately meaningless names. How can one find out speed vs power consumption vs virtual-machine-support vs ... .
And how do ARMs compare with the traditional x86 architecture processors?
Is there someplace where these are tracked?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:54AM (1 child)
The MHz wars are long over.
Benchmarks and long form reviews are the answer.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:31AM
Actually clock frequency is a good hint to performance. But it sure isn't a complete answer, but it aids quick comparison between processors in the same family.
Otoh, the MHz wars was crap. Intel P4 is the prime example of crap with high frequency and not so much number crunching.. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @02:48AM
Wikipedia tends to have complete lists of CPUs with the info you want, as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors [wikipedia.org] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryzen [wikipedia.org] (you will have to navigate around, sometimes the pages duplicate info, others not... compare Ryzen page to Zen one)
For performance, try places like http://www.cpubenchmark.net/index.php [cpubenchmark.net]