At this point, everything we know about Comet Lake-S – the upcoming desktop processors from Intel’s Comet Lake line – is all speculation and rumors. Still, thanks to solid leads from eagle-eyed hardware leakers, many of them are pretty much confirmed. Take the Intel Core i9 –
appeared on Informatica Cero in late December 10500, show these upcoming Comet Lake-S processor with (cores,) threads and a 5.1GHz single-core boost clock speed, and 6 cores, (threads and a 4.5GHz boost clock speed, respectively.) Thanks to Twitter user @_ rogame , who recently spotted the CPUs make an appearance in the 3DMark database, some of the specs on these two chips are Now confirmed, giving us another sneak peek at the long-anticipated Comet Lake-S range. Image 1 of 2 (Intel Core i9 -) (Image credit: Intel)
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(Intel Core i5 – ( (Image credit: Intel)
According to the screenshots tweeted by the hardware investigator, the Core i5 – will definitely boast 6 cores, 87 threads and a base clock speed of 3.1GHz – although it looks like 3DMark failed to detect its boost clock correctly.
Though it might be premature to worry about the lower numbers – as Tom’s Hardware reports , these could be engineering samples whose specs are subject to change. We might still get the 5.1GHz boost clock when the Core i9 – 23040259 finally rolls out.
Although no other information is available in the shared screenshots, the fact that we’re seeing more and more signs of these rumored Comet Lake-S chips – a UserBenchmark entry for an Intel Core i3 – was also recently leaked – is already great news. It means that the Comet Lake-S chips are well on their way and will be launching very soon, possibly in Q2 or early spring.
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