Will Intel use the Z270 boards on future processors or is Z270 dead?

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MrCrazy0ne

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Is Z270 dead? I bought a Z270 board when my Z170 clocked out, and was wondering if the Z270 platform would succeed for future generations like Coffee Lake.
 
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weberdarren97

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Right now, the only information I can offer you is how Intel has done things before.

Since the birth of the names i3, i5 and i7, Intel has been using each socket no more twice. Since Skylake started the 1151 era with Z170 and Kaby Lake is carrying it on with Z270, it's likely that Intel will be using a new socket for their next series of CPUs.

Unfortunately, that's all the information I have at the moment.
 
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However with the change from Tic Tock to PAO I could easily see the 8th Gen being capable on a Z270 board with a BIOS update, and the 9th Gen requiring a new socket
 
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eyupo92

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Reports said 8th Gen Core ( Coffee Lake ) will not be compatible with 1151 pin socket. So it is dead.

But according to Intel's extremely confusing marketing people, a 4C/8T Coffee Lake laptop CPU at 3.5 GHz will be %30 faster than a 2C/4T 2.7 GHz Core i7-7500U CPU ... so you figure what kind of performance increase you can get - I couldn't.
 
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weberdarren97

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Yes, but they also said that Kaby Lake had a 15% performance improvement...

For the i3's my calculations are showing a 5% improvement in clock speed and I don't have enough information to say about the integrated graphics.

Locked i5's are also showing a 5% improvement in clock speed. Still not enough info on integrated graphics.

I'm showing an 8% improvement in the clock speeds of the unlocked i5's.

I'm showing a 6% difference in the clock speeds of the unlocked i7's.

So where is the 15% difference? Don't say that Kaby Lake is faster per clock, because IPC is the same.

There was improvement, but no 15% improvement. So if Intel claims a 30% improvement, maybe we'll actually see that illusive 15% performance improvement? :lol:
 
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eyupo92

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Guys you also miss the additional 2 cores and 4 threads. That unreleased CPU had 4 cores and 8 Threads against 7500U's 2 cores and 4 threads !

>>> That's a huge generational improvement, but of course, there are footnotes to consider. The 30 percent boost came in one benchmark—SYSmark 2014 version 1.5—and applies to 15W U-series mobile processors. The comparison pits an i7-7500U (2.7GHz base, 3.5GHz turbo) with two cores and four threads against an unnamed next generation chip. The new chip has an unspecified base clockspeed, a 4GHz turbo, and doubles the number of cores and threads to four and eight.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/05/intel-coffee-lake-performance/

 
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