Intel Announces 8th Gen Core CPUs: Claims 40% Boost Over Gen 7, More Cores

[starshipeleven]

^ fixed. Trump tells it like it is, keeps it real.

FYI: Trump and "real" are on two different universes. He is great at propaganda tho.

[mczak]

So best to skip the entire 8th generation laptops and wait for the 9th generation Cannon Lake unless you can wait for the 10th generation Ice Lake.

I've got news for you, Cannon Lake is also going to be called 8th gen... (at least anandtech says so).
Do I think intel is crazy there? Hell yes.
But marketing couldn't care less what makes sense from a technical point of view...
But as long as they don't suddenly start to reuse the same cpu designations making them nearly indistinguishable before you buy (I'm looking at you amd and nvidia...) I'm not going to complain too much.

[Michael]

Only on the 7900X AFAIK - my impression was that the 7800X and 7820X supported AVX-512 instructions but didn't have any more FPU hardware than previous parts. Earlier parts don't support AVX-512 at all, with the exception of Knights Landing, and that goes up against Hawaii - GCN has had 512-bit VALUs since 2011.

Also some of the (non-Phi) Xeons are now on AVX-512 like the Xeon Golds I've been testing

[bridgman]

Only on the 7900X AFAIK - my impression was that the 7800X and 7820X supported AVX-512 instructions but didn't have any more FPU hardware than previous parts. Earlier parts don't support AVX-512 at all, with the exception of Knights Landing, and that goes up against Hawaii - GCN has had 512-bit VALUs since 2011.

[duby229]

Are you maybe thinking of Phenom ?

Zen can execute two AVX 256 instructions per clock AFAIK, with the exception of FMA where it is executes one AVX 256 per clock.

I believe Intel does have an advantage with AVX512, but only one of the benchmarks I've seen here (on Phoronix) clearly demonstrate it.

(If anybody remembers Larrabee)

[bridgman]

And ZEN doesn't natively support AVX 256 bit instructions.

Are you maybe thinking of Phenom ?

Zen can execute two AVX 256 instructions per clock AFAIK, with the exception of FMA where it is executes one AVX 256 per clock.

[franglais125]

^ fixed. Trump tells it like it is, keeps it real.

And Trump responded: "I know words... I have the best words.", enlightening all of us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v22uq-DWGg8

[torsionbar28]

No, this is obvious off-the-goddamn-scale-bullshit. This is Obama territory.

^ fixed. Trump tells it like it is, keeps it real. With Obama and Hillary, it's all propaganda and lies. Pulling a 40% improvement out of thin air with no facts to back it up is Obama's modus operandi. All that's needed is a few celebrity endorsements and he'd call it "settled science". Lol

[starshipeleven]

Wow. I'm so glad I'm not part of this discussion. WCCFTech AMD rabies disease has been steadily infecting all other forums. People no longer argue about the merits of products, they either hate or worship companies.

You must be new here, it has always been like that, in general. I mean just look at sports.

[starshipeleven]

Sounds more like Obama's hope-n-change bullshit to me. We'll "change" the name to 8th gen, and you can "hope" it performs better.

No, this is obvious off-the-goddamn-scale-bullshit. This is Trump territory.