Intel announces its eighth-generation Coffee Lake desktop processors

Intel announced its first wave of eighth-generation Core processors for laptops back

in August, and now it’s time for desktops to get their own turn at Intel’s latest processors. The biggest change in the eighth-generation Core line is that Intel is upping core count across the entire eighth-generation range on desktop. The entry-level i3 model now comes with four cores (up from two); the midrange Core i5 has six (up from four); and Core i7 chips now offer six cores with hyper-threading. INTEL’S “BEST GAMING PROCESSOR EVER” According to Intel, the new chips are up to 32 percent faster compared to the previous generation, and up to 65 percent faster than a three-year-old machine when it comes to tasks like video editing or content creation. Intel is also touting big improvements on the gaming side of things, calling out the top-of-the-line i7-8700K as the company’s “best gaming desktop processor ever."                                                                           https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/25/16360454/intel-8th-generation-coffee-lake-desktop-processors-faster-gaming-performance