last year has been interesting for Intel
that's for sure in fact it was a damn
mess AMD clobbered them in the desktop
market ice Lake ended up underperforming
and new comment Lake CBS 4 no books were
more or less the same in fact just a few
weeks ago we got a first taste of Amy's
mobile rights and CPUs and the
performance was just through the roof
which eventually put intel in a lot of
trouble now throughout that whole time
people have been asking for a desktop
refresh since copy Lake has been around
for more than a year now so today we
finally have an answer Intel later this
month we'll be launching a load of new
comment Lake tension CPUs for the
desktop side and the story basically
aligns with what we saw on comet Lake
processors for notebooks which means
we're gonna get more cores higher
frequencies a new socket a new platform
sorta kinda and oh yeah some interesting
prices too so what you'll be seeing over
the next few minutes is Intel reflecting
on what AMD did back in the FX days you
see back then when AMD was still using
the same old manufacturing process they
had to sacrifice on thermals and power
consumption to achieve higher
frequencies
and it looks like history is about to
repeat itself my friends but this time
it's coming from Team Blue so after
burying their heads in sand without any
price cuts for coffee leak and
pretending AMD didn't exist is Intel
gonna wake up or is it too late to stop
bleeding against risin let's find out
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alright so I want to start things off
with the most important thing and that's
the new socket called LGA 1200 design
so yes eight and nineteen processors
won't be compatible with the new
motherboards and the new CPUs can't be
installed in the current LGA 1151 socket
most of those additional pins are to
power the higher-end ten core CPUs but
we're told some are also reserved for
additional functionality sometime down
the road there is some good news though
usually Intel keeps their sockets around
for two CPU revisions which means
technically these new motherboards
should be compatible with Intel's and
next generation of processors but
there's just no real sense in to
investing in a new platform if you plan
on upgrading so quickly it just doesn't
seem practical so I'll get into the new
z4 90 motherboards as well as the LGA
1200 socket a bit later on or for now
let's focus on these new CPUs is there
anything really new well no not really
guys since they still use the same
architecture as coffee lake but it's
been optimized to deliver higher speeds
you see in order to deliver those
frequencies more consistently Intel
needed a way to better manage
temperatures and that means moving to a
thinner CPU die that's topped in a
soldered thermal interface material and
a thicker HS to dissipate heat more
evenly also some of these refresh CPUs
will have access to turbo boost max 3.0
which singles out the processors to best
course and then boost those to higher
speeds without increasing voltages and
as for how well that translates into the
lineup well every processor basically
has four different sub models there's
the K which includes an IG p and
overclocking and the KF that has exactly
the same speeds but removes the IGP
and costs a bit less any cpu without a
letter at the end is meant to offer an
IG P and a lower TDP with reduced clock
speeds finally there's an F model with
identical speeds as the more efficient
version but it has disabled graphics
core and only the K series CPUs can be
overclocked some things you'll see as
common on all of these processors are
memory speeds of 29 30 megahertz the
same 40 platform PCIe lanes as copy Lake
had and the same old UHD 630 graphics so
yes comet Lake is basically a refresh of
9 gen starting right at the top is the
i9 ten hundred K which has a ten core 20
threaded layout and it can hit some
pretty insane
speeds up to five point three gigahertz
when two cores are active to hit those
peas with 10 cores Intel needed to up
their TDP from the 1900 case 95 watts to
a hundred and 25 watts and we all know
that number is probably on the low side
the other high in CPU in this lineup is
the i7 10 708 cores and 16 threads and
oddly enough it doesn't have a thermal
velocity boost like deep 1019 okay
either way this is basically a ninety
nine hundred K with higher frequencies
and lower pricing what you generally see
is Intel trying to align their eye nine
with rise nine CPUs the i7 with wiesen
seven the i5 s with Rison five and so on
but let's talk about that pricing
because Intel is trying to be a bit more
competitive on that front but still it's
gonna be a huge uphill battle against
AMD though you see the I $9.99 hundred K
had remained pretty much constant at
four hundred ninety dollars to five
hundred dollars through its lifetime and
it's got killed on the value front by
AMD now Intel is offering two more cores
and for additional threads for the same
price which means the ten hundred K ends
up competing against a rise in nine
thirty nine hundred s that AMD beast has
twenty four threats but Intel is betting
their higher clock speeds end up
resulting in better gaming performance
than Rison personally I think the
lower-priced market is gonna see some
really interesting battles as Intel's i7
hits back at the horizon 7 Series by
finally enabling hyper threading on the
i7 CPUs the 10-7 inter k offers the same
number of course and threats as the
risin 7:30 800 x at technically a
slightly lower price but it looks like
Intel's competing with e 3800 X's
suggested price and that CP has been
selling for between 330 and $350 for
months now moving on to the i5 s and the
I threes and things get a bit weird
first of all none of these processors
have turbo boost 3.0 technology which
means their highest clock speeds will
only be hit with a single core active
also for whatever bizarre backwards
reason Intel decided to step official
memory support down to 26 66 megahertz
I just don't get it even the eight
series notebooks we checked out recently
all the i5s and I threes have support
for 29 33 megahertz I mean sure
di wires can't push higher memory
frequencies through XMP profiles and
Intel does argue that higher memory
frequencies are necessarily needed for
lower end processors but to me all of
this just sounds really really odd
either way it's really amazing to see
aim D push Intel really hard to increase
core counts by name playing hyper
threading on all of their i5 and high
three CPUs unfortunately the i5 10600 K
is the only one that's unlocked so it
looks like Intel still wants to limit
our clocking access to their higher NC
views but let's look at a few
comparisons as you can see intel has
progress from six core CPUs with SMT
disabled to something like the ten six
and a K which is supposed to target aim
DS 3,600 X the problem here is the same
one I mentioned before a lot of AMD's
mid tier processors are selling for much
less than they were launched for so
while the rise in five you see here was
$250 it's now closer to $200 and that
means the 10 600 K ends up sitting
between the 3600 X and V 3700 X the last
CPU I want to really focus on is the i5
10 500 which also has 12 threads and
that's a big improvement over the 9500
it's going head-to-head with Andes risin
530 600 which still goes around for $190
so this could be a really interesting
head-to-head comparison and let us know
if you're interested in something like
this moving down from that and there's a
massive log jam of four different Intel
processors between 185 and $125 Intel
it's obviously doing this since in other
region limited rise in 5 3000 series AMD
doesn't really have anything in these
ranges the closest they've got is the
$120 Rison 330 300 X that's launching
next week
I'm guessing Intel's hoping that the a
thread I three 10 100 will help out
there but I have a feeling that AMD
might win that battle to below $100
Intel has quite a few options as well
but those are all dual-core chips
without even the most basic turbo boost
features they're really meant for budget
systems and not much else
this also means that
we'll be leaving the hundred dollar
horizon 3:30 100 all alone without any
competition whatsoever and now what
about motherboards well we have a pair
of new platforms called z4 90 and h4 70
but from a high-level view a lot of them
are just refreshes of z3 90 boards with
expanded features and just to be clear
comment League CPUs don't have support
for PC engine for let's take a look at
this Orr's z4 90 master it has
additional power inputs to handle the
new power-hungry CPUs more high
bandwidth the USB connectors then deedsy
through an ad generation and with one
other thing yeah all right all right let
me explain what's going on here that's
PCI gen 4 hardware but these new
processors won't have official support
for PT Agincourt devices and supposedly
a lot of the motherboard manufacturers
will start making this claim so what's
really going on here well it could be
shady marketing or it could be something
else it could be a mystery that none of
us know but gigabyte did mention that
all their boards will have the necessary
equipments and PCB traces
so if Intel does decide to launch the
next generation processors to have PCI
Gen 4 support you know they're already
in here so yeah you see that's a pretty
big stretch in my opinion since it
assumes Intel will make upcoming
architectures drop-in compatible for LGA
1200 motherboards the other problem
really has to do with DC 490 platform
itself but to understand that let's take
a look at what it's all about
right now both VZ 490 chipset and the
CPU can only support gen 3 graphics not
only that but the DMI interface between
the chipset and the processor still uses
the old four-lane set up that means it
can transfer a maximum of 4 gigabytes
per second of data and that isn't enough
for Gen 4 on top of all the other i/o so
the only option is for the CPU to
generate those Gen 4 lanes and
comet-like just can't do that so what's
actually new to Z 490 not that much
actually there is now integrated Wi-Fi 6
support instead of 802 11 AC and the
option for Intel's 2.5 g Len and that's
it seriously Z 490 is basically Z 390
with support for Wi-Fi
honestly I really wish that Intel
offered a little bit more on the
platform front to compete with what AMD
has but that's not the case so I didn't
even wrap up this explained video expect
to see our full review in the next few
weeks but from what I can see right now
it looks like Intel might have something
a bit more competitive but would that be
enough
I don't really know guys because I mean
sure you're getting more cores higher
frequencies but there is really not
anything new that's going on especially
since lack of features on Z 490 I mean I
don't see anything extraordinary with
this new platform and that to me is a
bit concerning but what do you guys
think let us know in the comments down
below I hope you guys are staying safe I
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guys in the next one