Intel Kaby Lake Desktop Roadmap Leaked

The latest roadmap for Intel's upcoming desktop based Kaby Lake processors has been leaked by Benchlife. The roadmap indicates that Kaby Lake desktop processor family known every bit Kaby Lake-Southward would be available in Q4 '16 along with the latest 200-series chipset based motherboards. The new processors will exist function of the third Intel family unit to utilize the 14nm procedure architecture which would be optimized for better functioning and efficiency.

Intel Kaby Lake Desktop Processors Arriving on 200-Series Platform in Q4 2022, Roadmap Confirms

Intel's Kaby Lake processors have been announced for a while at present and have faced delays due to restructuring that occurred recently at Intel. Previously, the desktop parts were expected for Q3 2022 but have since been moved back to Q4 2022. The roadmap gives us details of when to await retail availability of the processors in the marketplace.

Engineering samples of the Kaby Lake processors were manufactured in April 2022 then it means that we are expected to come across some leaks pretty soon. We already got to come across some details of the Cadre i7-7700K and Core i5-7500U processors a while dorsum. The retail chips volition be available in two variants, the Kaby Lake-South 4+two and Kaby Lake-S 2+two serial. The get-go 1 represents the Quad core products with GT2 graphics and the second ane represents the Dual core products, also with the GT2 graphics.

Intel Kaby Lake-S and 200-Serial PCH Roadmap for 2022-2017. (Paradigm Credits: Benchlife)

The Kaby Lake-Due south 4+2 series is expected to striking qualification sampling in September 2022 followed by mass product in November 2022 and retail availability in December of 2022. The Kaby Lake-S 2+2 family will hit qualification sampling in either November or December of 2022. The dual cadre desktop chips which include Core i3 and Pentium series commonly arrive belatedly to desktop platforms. Mass production on these processors volition beginning in late Q4 2022 or early Q1 2022 followed by availability in February or March 2022.

The Kaby Lake 200-Serial PCH (Platform Command Hub) volition also hit qualification sampling in mid Q3 2022 and hitting mass production in early Oct 2022. Overall, we tin await the availability of the entire Kaby Lake desktop family unit in late Q4 2022 which aligns it against the AMD Zen (AM4) family unit of enthusiast processors. Both Intel and AMD will tackle it out with their new 14nm processors in the consumer market.

Here's What To Expect From Kaby Lake Desktop Processors

Intel Kaby Lake processors in general would be getting increased core performance (expect the usual 5-10% comeback) unless Intel plans to do something very different with Kaby Lake which seems highly unlikely. The processors will retain the basic features such for enthusiasts such as enhanced total range BCLK overclocking and 95W "Unlocked" options to choose from. The unlocked family unit will be available afterwards in Q2 2022 and would be known every bit the Kaby Lake-X series. Intel Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X Leaked Roadmap

Intel's leaked roadmap highlights their enthusiasts and mainstream processor families. (Prototype Credits: Benchlife)

While Intel has increased the cadre count on their enthusiast chip platform (Broadwell-E), things volition remain the same on their mainstream platform with both dual and quad core (35W and 65W options) bachelor to consumers along with the enthusiast quad core options. Other key features on the media and display side include 5K (30Hz) on ane brandish and 5K (60Hz) dual brandish capabilities, HEVC 10-bit hardware decode, VP9 ten-chip (hardware), UDH/4K display resolutions and support for Intel's Thunderbolt gen3 support.

WCCFTech	AMD Summit Ridge	Intel Kaby Lake
Product Naming	AMD RYZEN	Intel Core 7000 Series
Product Segment	Mainstream Desktop PCs	Mainstream Desktop PCs
Product Architecture	x86 Zen (+40% IPC compared to Excavator)	seventh Gen Kaby Lake (Aforementioned IPC as Skylake)
Process Node	14nm	14nm+
Max CPU Cores/Threads	8/16	iv/8
GPU Architecture	Northward/A	Intel Hard disk 600 Serial
TDP	Up to 95W	Up to 95W
Socket	AM4	LGA 1151
PCH	X370	Z270
Memory Support	DDR4	DDR4
Launch	February - March 2022	January 2022

The Intel 200-Series PCH - LGA 1151 Socket, Intel Optane Technology Support

The Intel 200-Serial PCH is a crucial update for the upcoming family unit of processors as information technology will let support for them. The Intel 200-serial PCH volition include several SKUs such as Z270, H270, Q270, Q250 and B250. While the new chipset doesn't include whatever major changes over the Skylake PCH, it does include back up for Intel Optane technology which utilizes Intel'southward 3D XPoint memory to evangelize high-operation SSDs and memory solutions.

Intel Optane Storage and Retentivity solution roadmap. (Prototype Credits: Benchlife)

The KBL-PCH will be able to support Mansion Beach (Optane SSD PCIe/NVMe Gen3 x4), Brighton Embankment (Optane SSD PCIe/NVMe Gen3 x4) and Stony Embankment (Optane Memory PCIe/NVMe Gen 3 x2 (k.2)) solutions. We covered this topic in more detail over here.

These processors will exist supported by the current LGA 1151 socket which volition allow support for both Kaby Lake-X and Kaby Lake-S processors. Motherboard manufacturers already had prototypes based on the Z270 chipset on display at Computex 2022 which shows their level of readiness for Intel's new desktop family. Expect to hear more about Intel'southward 7th generation platform in the upcoming months.