Be ready for amazing experiences in gaming, VR, and entertainment wherever your computing takes you with the 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family. This new generation of processors extends all the capabilities users have come to love in our desktop platforms with advanced innovations that deliver exciting new features to immerse you in incredible experiences on a variety of form factors.

"Coffee Lake" (14 nm)

The 8th Generation Intel Core processors redefine mainstream desktop PC performance with up to six cores for more processing power—that’s two more cores than the previous generation Intel Core processor family—Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 technology to increase the maximum turbo frequency up to 4.7 GHz, and up to 12 MB of cache memory. 1 Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology delivers up to 12-way multitasking support in the latest generation of Intel Core processors. For the enthusiast, the unlocked 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-8700K processor provides you the opportunity to tweak the platform performance to its fullest potential and enjoy great gaming and VR experiences.

Architecture

The new 8th Generation Intel Core processor family delivers:

• An impressive portfolio of standard and unlocked systems for a broad range of usages and performance levels.
• New system acceleration when paired with Intel® Optane™ memory to deliver amazing system responsiveness.
• Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 technology to give you that extra burst of performance when you need it.
• Intel Hyper-Threading technology, which allows each processor core to work on two tasks at the same time, improving multitasking, speeding up workflows, and accomplishing more in less time.
• DDR4 RAM memory technology support, which allows systems to have up to 64 GB of memory and up to 2666 MT/s memory transfer speeds.
• The ability to set an overclocked ratio per core with unlocked processors, when paired with select chipset SKUs, to provide you more control and more granularity for overclocking your platform.