News Asus Lists Z490 Motherboard for Intel's Comet Lake-S Early

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Want to know what Z490 and Comet Lake-S have in store for us early? ASUS just gave us a hint.

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[mdd1963]

"...with the i9-10900K showing rumored performance 30 percent higher than the current range-topper, the Intel Core i9-9900K "

So, a 25% increase in core count, and a 6% increase in clock speed, perhaps a tweak upward in RAM clocks, all for a somewhat predictable 30% bump in Cinebench? I'm guessing a near wash in gaming scores/framerates, save for perhaps two games that might thrive on yet two more cores/four more threads... (Hope I'm wrong, and the increase in gaming prowess is greater...)

 

[swissc]

Why make a new socket for what must be one of the last 14nm chip series? Would it not make more sense to keep with 1151 until they move to 10/7nm?

 

[Deicidium369]

Why make a new socket for what must be one of the last 14nm chip series? Would it not make more sense to keep with 1151 until they move to 10/7nm?

This socket is for Comet Lake and Rocket Lake - Rocket Lake is the new 2nd gen new architecture (Ice Lake was Sunny Cove - Gen1 - Tiger Lake is Willow Cove which is Gen2) but on the 14nm node. Ice Lake saw a 30% increase in IPC and Tiger Lake takes those improvement further - and with the maturity of the 14nm process, and it's ability to hit high frequencies - make Rocket Lake significant. I don;t think it will come out of the gate at 5Ghz - but with the massive uplift in IPC - even 4-4.5Ghz it will be well worth the upgrade from i9900K.

Rocket Lake is the last desktop for 14nm - although the Z590 chipset will be required to use PCIe4 - so yeah, not really sure what's up with Comet Lake - seems like a contingency plan that turns out wasn't needed, but too far along to just can - even the Comet Lake NUC9 is kinda an oddball - if they had added some of the Xe EUs rather than yet another Gen 9.5 graphics mistake.

I will be making the move from i9900K to Rocket Lake - but going to wait to see what exactly they put out - not sure if there will be multiple variants or just a couple - if the low med end will drop first, then the flagship later - would only be interested in the flagship - 8 Core /16 Thread is more than enough, esp with the sizable IPC increases. Hopefully this and Ampere drop about the same time - I would suspect Ampere will be native PCIe4 ...which along with a nice fast NVMe m.2 stick would be a nice upgrade.

 

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DOA

 

[kal326]

Why make a new socket for what must be one of the last 14nm chip series? Would it not make more sense to keep with 1151 until they move to 10/7nm?

Because Intel... They already did a 4 socket spec dance in the 115x series because they could. Why just sell new chips when you can sell new chipsets too? Even if they are slight revisions with seemingly no technical reasons. Honestly it seems more consumer marketing related.