Intel continues its run-up to maximum performance with the 14 nanometer production node. Even the tenth generation of CPU of the American company will be based precisely on this production process and on a refresh of the current architecture. The next Comet Lake-S processors should arrive on the market during the next spring, bringing a boost in performance that depends almost exclusively on theincrease in clock frequencies, a new socket, the LGA1200, and a new chipset for motherboards.
The first details that emerged on the flagship CPU of the next range seem to indicate a product designed especially for gaming, since it could reach the frequency of 5.3 GHz on a single Core.
Perfect for gaming
Intel's difficulties in moving to the 10nm production process do not allow for incredible room for improvement between generations. The one at 14 nm was introduced way back in 2015 With Broadwell CPUs, the Intel processor architecture has made progress since then but it is now clear that something more innovative is needed for a net performance improvement. Despite this, the American house has a notable primacy in clock frequencies, so much so that its processors they are particularly suitable for PCs dedicated to gaming.
Even today, the Intel i9-9900K keeps up with the most powerful Ryzen in this field, which however can count on a higher number of cores and on a versatility of use today greater than that proposed by Intel.
In this scenario, the arrival of the next i7-10700K does not shift the current balance, but could put a serious mortgage on the title of best processor for gamers. In fact, a benchmark has emerged online that would show the new Intel CPU to touch 5.3 GHz. This figure should refer to the frequencies reachable on a single Core in Boost mode. In all there should be 8 total cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 3.8 GHz.
Unfortunately, the benchmark was performed with a processor that is not yet definitive, so the frequencies of the commercial variant may not correspond. Furthermore there are no indications on the TDP, a very important figure considering that the energy demand of this processor could reach particularly high peaks, starting however from a TDP of 125W.
The i7-10700K will not however be the most powerful processor of the new lineup, which should see the topi9-10900K, equipped with 10 cores and 20 threads, with 5.2 GHz single core boost frequency.