The characteristics of engineering samples of Comet Lake-S processors have been actively discussed in recent days based on the appearance of slides from the official presentations of Intel, but photos of real instances inspire the audience much more. At least, you can make sure that preparations for the announcement of LGA 1200 processors are really underway. By the weekend, references to various engineering samples of Comet Lake-S processors appeared in Social .
By coincidence, so far everything is limited to six-core models: Core i5-10500 and Core i5-10600K, respectively. The first, for example, in Windows is capable of running at 3,0 GHz without processing load, but examples of screenshots with a frequency of 3,5 GHz are given. Version 1.82.1 of the CPU-Z utility cannot correctly identify this family of processors, but version 1.91.0 of the utility copes with this more successfully. Existing engineering samples of Comet Lake processors belong to the G0 stepping.
Photos of the processors themselves confirm their belonging to the LGA 1200 platform - this can be judged by the arrangement of contacts on the back of the processor circuit board. The covers of engineering samples do not contain identification marks that could be deciphered without prompting.
One of the owners of the Core i5-10600K engineering sample claims that in terms of speed, such a processor is comparable to the Core i7-8700K. The six-core model with a free multiplier has a TDP value of no more than 125 W, which leaves a decent margin for further overclocking. With all cores active, the Core i5-10600K should reach a frequency of 4,5 GHz, on a single core - 4,8 GHz. A productive cooling system should fully reveal the potential of such processors.
Source: 3dnews.ru