Intel Announces New 8th-gen Core i9 processor Launch Successfully.

Intel just announced its latest generation of laptop processors, the 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 and i9+ processor. Based on the ‘Coffee Lake’ architecture, these processors are designed specifically for gamers, enthusiasts, and content creators.

What does it have?

1. Fast Clock speeds: Designed with AAA games in mind, the Intel® Core™ i9+ processor is the fastest CPU ever put in an Intel-based laptop.

2. More Cores, More Threads: Specially built for computation-heavy applications, this is the first Intel laptop with up to 6 cores and 12 threads.

3. Native Overclocking1: Users can push their laptops even further with help from new Intel Thermal Velocity Boost technology2, exclusive mobile Intel Core i9 and Intel Xeon® X-2186 processors.

What is Core i9?

On May 30 at Computex, Intel formally announced the Core i9 high-end chips for PC enthusiasts. At the high end, it’s quite simple: The Core i9 family consists of what’s known as the Skylake-X architecture, with processors that include 10, 12, 14, and 16 cores.

From there, it becomes a bit complicated. For some reason, Intel decided that the 8-core and 6-core Skylake-X chips aren’t worthy enough, so they carry the Core i7 name. They share some common architectural features with the “true” Core i9 chips, though, so we’ve included them. The same goes for a second family of chips, known as Kaby Lake-X—basically the same seventh-generation CPUs you’ve seen on laptops and desktops for more than a year, but that also connect to the same X299 chipset as the Skylake-X chips do. The two Kaby Lake-X chips will be quad-core only parts.

Colloquially, you may also see these chips referred to as the Skylake-X family, the X-series of chips, or by their code name, “Basin Falls.”

The processor specs that matter most concern performance. The raw clock speed determines how fast any one thread can be acted upon, while the core and thread counts control how many threads or tasks can be calculated in parallel. The Core i9 series excels in these metrics. But you’ll pay a hefty premium for that talent.

Finally, Intel has announced all of the clock speeds of the Core i9 family. They’re all unlocked, too—ready and waiting to be overclocked.

What does this mean?

1. Megatasking: Up to 32% faster gameplay while recording and streaming over previous 7th gen Intel Core processors means a high-performance chip that’s purposefully built to:

Deliver consistently-high frame rates when gaming
Cut down on rendering and compiling times
Boost performance in programs that take advantage of hyperthreading architecture

2. Serious VR: Virtual reality is notoriously resource-intensive, but the Intel Core i9 processor is designed to have the power to match, giving users immersive VR worlds not just at home, but anywhere they want to go.

3. Improved Streaming: The new line of laptops are designed with AAA game streamers in mind. Modern AAA games can be system-taxing all on their own, but streaming them compounds the matter further. To stream AAA games, hardware must:

Deliver the best possible game experience to the player
Capture that experience in video
Convert that raw footage into an online-friendly video format
Upload that video data to an online service (in between online gaming data packets)
All concurrently, all in real time

Traditionally, streamers required two computers to do the job (one to play, one to record and upload) which adds extra hardware and costs, and making working trips to conventions, tournaments, or events difficult.

The new 8th Gen Intel Core i9 processor seeks to address all of this in a novel way— a way that’s not just brute force from the CPU itself. It comes with a brand new media engine built on Gen9 graphics architecture. This is an additional chipset that tackles things like video transcoding, thereby taking some computational strain off the processor and discrete GPUs. The same media engine also natively decodes new codecs like VP9 and HVEC 10-bit.

And there’s one more improvement: Gigabit Wi-Fi for fast downloads3 and uploads of up to 1.7Gbps!

The 8th Gen Intel Core i9+processor with Intel

Computing is all about working with data. That means storing it, accessing it, and processing it.

A faster CPU helps with processing but has little impact on the other two functions. Worse yet, as clock speeds have increased, they’ve created a brand new problem; the fastest solid state drive is now 10,000x slower than the fastest CPU, creating a massive performance penalty every time that data is accessed from storage!

Intel Optane technology was created to address that performance gap between your CPU and your hard drive. It’s a brand new kind of memory that acts as an intermediary between your processor and your hard drive.

These ultra high-speed memory modules are already hard at work on huge data servers, reclaiming lost performance caused by data access on an enterprise level. Now, the same principles have been scaled down to fit in an Intel Core i9+ processor-based laptop.

The Intel Core i9+ processor uses ultra high-speed Intel Optane memory modules to clear up caching issues that can cause performance loss when gaming, 4k rendering, or using any other computation-heavy program.