Intel Coffee Lake 6 Cores Confirmed for 95W TDP

With the Coffee Lake launch edging closer, more leaks are starting to come out. Perhaps due to increased competition from AMD, Intel is revamping their mainstream lineup. For the first time, we will have six cores from Intel for the mainstream. So far, we’ve seen various cache numbers and clock speed numbers come out. One thing that is finally being leaked now is the TDP numbers for the hexacore models.

Coffee Lake uses the same 14nm process as Kaby Lake and uses the architecture from Skylake. Intel has optimised the design even more, claiming a 30% performance increase from the same power draw. Part of this performance increase is likely due to an increased core count. The top mainstream core count goes from 4 cores 8 threads to 6 cores and 12 threads. Normally an increase in core count and frequencies would lead to a jump in TDP. However, it looks like Intel managed to keep things low.

Intel’s 2 Extra Cores Don’t Raise TDP

For the mainstream enthusiast lineup, Intel is keeping the TDP to 95W. This is the historical LGA 115x mainstream processor TDP limit. Interestingly, adding two more cores to the top end only bumps up the TDP up by 4W compared to the current top end quad cores. This likely means less aggressive turbo for the hexacore. For the mainstream mainstream chips, the TDP is still at 65W. Low power is also the same at 35W per usual.

Last of all, Intel scheduled for production between August 21st and October 9th. Given past experience, this means we can expect Kaby Lake to launch sometime in that timeframe. Furthermore, we also have a leak about Cannon Lake. Compared to Coffee Lake, it will feature quad-core audio DSP, Gen 2 USB 3.1, Wifi-AC, SDXC 3.0 and Thunderbolt with DisplayPort 1.4 built into the platform.