Coffee Lake

Coffee Lake
Intel Core i7-8700K with six physical cores
General information
LaunchedOctober 5, 2017; 7 years ago (October 5, 2017)[4]
DiscontinuedJune 4, 2021 (8th gen, except for Xeons)[1][2]
December 24, 2021 (9th gen)[3]
Marketed byIntel
Designed byIntel
Common manufacturer
  • Intel
CPUID code0906eah, 0906ebh, 0906ech, 0906edh
Product code80684
Cache
L1 cache64 KB[a] per core
L2 cache256 KB per core
L3 cacheUp to 16 MB, shared
L4 cache128 MB of eDRAM (on some models)
Architecture and classification
ApplicationDesktop
Technology nodeIntel 14 nm++
MicroarchitectureCoffee Lake
Instruction setx86-64
Instructionsx86-64
Extensions
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 2–8
GPUGT2, GT3e
Socket
Products, models, variants
Product code name
  • CFL
Brand name
    • Celeron
    • Pentium Gold
    • Core i3
    • Core i5
    • Core i7
    • Core i9
    • Xeon E
History
PredecessorKaby Lake (optimization)
SuccessorsSame generation

Next generation

Support status
Legacy support for iGPU

Coffee Lake is Intel's codename for its eighth-generation Core microprocessor family, announced on September 25, 2017.[5] It is manufactured using Intel's second 14 nm process node refinement.[6] Desktop Coffee Lake processors introduced i5 and i7 CPUs featuring six cores (along with hyper-threading in the case of the latter) and Core i3 CPUs with four cores and no hyperthreading.

On October 8, 2018, Intel announced what it branded its ninth generation of Core processors, the Coffee Lake Refresh family.[7] To avoid running into thermal problems at high clock speeds, Intel soldered the integrated heat spreader (IHS) to the CPU die instead of using thermal paste as on the Coffee Lake processors.[8] The generation was defined by another increase of core counts.

Coffee Lake is used with the 300-series chipset, and officially does not work with the 100- and 200-series chipset motherboards. Although desktop Coffee Lake processors use the same physical LGA 1151 socket as Skylake and Kaby Lake, the pinout is electrically incompatible with these older processors and motherboards.[9]

On April 2, 2018, Intel released additional desktop Core i3, i5, i7, Pentium Gold, Celeron CPUs, the first six-core Core i7 and i9 mobile CPUs, hyper-threaded four-core Core i5 mobile CPUs, and the first Coffee Lake ultra-power CPUs with Intel Iris Plus graphics.

On June 8, 2018, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Intel 8086 CPU architecture, Intel released the i7-8086K as a limited edition CPU, a renumbered and slightly higher clocked batch of the i7-8700K dies.

  1. ^ Broekhuijsen, Niels (June 1, 2020). "Intel Discontinues All 8th-Gen Coffee Lake-S CPUs Up To 8700K". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "Product Change Notification #117617-00" (PDF). Intel. June 1, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2020.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Intel Discontinues Entire 9th Gen CPU Lineup including the Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, and i5-9600K". Hardware Times. December 8, 2020. Retrieved April 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "Intel Unveils the 8th Gen Intel Core Processor Family for Desktop, Featuring Intel's Best Gaming Processor Ever". Intel Newsroom. September 24, 2017. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
  5. ^ Cutress, Ian (September 25, 2017). "Intel Announces 8th Generation Core "Coffee Lake" Desktop Processors: Six-core i7, Four-core i3, and Z370 Motherboards". Anandtech.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference anandtech-cfl-review-p2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Intel Announces World's Best Gaming Processor: New 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K". Intel Newsroom.
  8. ^ Jon, Martindale (July 26, 2018). "Intel's soldered ninth-gen CPUs could give them even greater overclocking room". Digital Trends. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
  9. ^ Cutress, Ian (October 5, 2017). "The AnandTech Coffee Lake Review: Initial Numbers on the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400". AnandTech. Retrieved October 6, 2017.


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