Intel's 7th Generation Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K CPU Leaked - Core i7-7500U and Core M7-7Y75 For Mobility Detailed

The first specifications of Intel's upcoming Kaby Lake processors accept been leaked out. Intel's 7th generation processor family, codenamed Kaby Lake, volition be launching later this year on desktops and mobility platforms with several chips and products to select from. The Kaby Lake processors will be Intel's last x86 processors to employ the 14nm process afterward which Intel will leap transport to 10nm on their Cannonlake processors.

Kaby Lake processors volition be uniform with existing 100-series motherboards. (Paradigm Credits: Digitaltrends)

Intel's Kaby Lake Desktop and Mobile CPUs Detailed - 7th Generation, 14nm Optimized Cadre Processors

Intel'south Kaby Lake processors will exist the 7th iteration of the Core family unit so nosotros should be expecting some key improvements. The Kaby Lake lineup may not exist a significant update over the Skylake family unit but Intel made things clear by announcing their latest process technology roadmap concluding month.

Co-ordinate to the roadmap, Intel will now stick to a procedure node for 3 generation of Core families. With 14nm, we accept gotten the Broadwell, Skylake and the upcoming Kaby Lake processors. The same process will go along with 10nm and beyond due to complication involved in developing new chips on such pocket-size nodes and the resultant yields.

Intel officially dropped Tick-Tock in favor of three year cadence (PAO).

Summing up the 14nm family of processors, Broadwell was the first to utilise the new process while keeping the architectural design close to Haswell. Skylake was also 14nm but brought significant improvements on CPU and GPU side. The Kaby Lake processors are termed equally part of the "Optimization" procedure which ways Intel will exist able to extract more functioning and better efficiency from existing Skylake designs. This is slightly closer to a refresh but we volition come across if Intel manages to offer more than that at launch.

The leaked details of three new processors include the Core i7-7700K, Core i7-7500U and the Core M7-7Y75. It is clear that the get-go processor is the flagship processor of the desktop lineup while the remaining ii are built for the notebook families such equally Kaby Lake-U and Kaby Lake-Y. It'due south interesting that these chips have shown upwardly on SisoftSandra so early so it is possible that the clock speeds might change in the final revisions. Regardless, let us get on with the specifications:

Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake-S Mainstream Desktop Processor

The flagship Intel desktop processor will be the Core i7-7700K processor. Intel volition stick with the quad cadre and hyper threaded design which they have been using on the mainstream Core i7 processors since launch. The fleck is currently clocked at three.sixty GHz with boost clocks of four.2 GHz. The currently flagship Core i7-6700K features 4.00 GHz base and 4.20 GHz boost clocks. As mentioned before, these are early samples and so clock speeds can increase past the time these chips launch.

Image Source: SisoftSandra Database

Other specifications include an 8 MB L3 cache, 256 KB of L2 cache and a 4.00 GHz internal retentiveness controller. The scrap will feature the latest Kaby Lake Desktop graphics processor which will consist of 24 Execution units. The sample was clocked to 1150 MHz which is what the GT2 graphics fleck on the Core i7-6700K is also clocked at. The Core i7-7700K processor will characteristic slightly ameliorate efficiency and possibly a lower TDP due to the much enhanced 14nm process. The fleck will exist compatible with 100-serial and 200-series motherboards that feature the LGA 1151 socket.

Intel Core i7-7700K Preliminary Specs:

Processor Name	Intel Core i7-7700K	Intel Core i7-6700K	Intel Cadre i7-5775C
Family Name	Kaby Lake	Skylake	Broadwell
Process Node	14nm (third Gen)	14nm (2nd Gen)	14nm (1st Gen)
CPU Cores	4/8	4/viii	4/8
Graphics Core	TBA	Intel 530	Iris Pro 6200
Base Clock	three.60 GHz (ES) four.20 GHz (Final)	four.00 GHz	3.30 GHz
Boost Clock	4.20 GHz (ES) 4.50 GHz (Final)	four.20 GHz	3.lxx GHz
L3 Cache	8 MB L3	eight MB L3	6 MB L3
L4 Enshroud	Northward/A	Northward/A	128 MB eDRAM
Unlocked Design	Yep	Yes	Yes
TDP	TBA	91W	65W

Intel Cadre i7-7500U Kaby Lake-U Low TDP Mobility Processor

The Core i7-7500U volition be part of the Kaby Lake-U family which is built for ultra-depression ability platforms. The Core i7-7500U sample was a dual cadre, multi-threaded processor which featured clock speeds of ii.lxx GHz base and 2.xc GHz boost. The flake comes with iv MB L3 enshroud and 512 KB of L2 cache. The scrap was tested on a platform with DDR3L memory. DDR4L and LPDDR4 support volition also be included for Kaby Lake-U processors.

Prototype Source: SisoftSandra Database

The graphics chip is likely to be a GT2 series with clock speeds of around 1000-1100 MHz. It's predecessor, the Cadre i7-6500U has a 15W TDP which the Core i7-7500U is probable to retain. The fleck will be available in several 7 th generation notebooks in 2H of 2022.

Intel Core M7-7Y75 Kaby Lake-Y Core M, Depression TDP Processor

The final chip is the Core M7-7Y75 which equally the name suggests is office of the Kaby Lake-Y series. These ultra low TDP chips don't exceed the 4.5W range which volition probable be true for the Kaby Lake serial. On the specifications side, the Cadre M7-7Y75 is a dual core pattern with multi-threading enabled. Intel Kaby Lake Core M7-7Y75

Paradigm Source: SisoftSandra Database

This chip is clocked at a base clock of 1.30 GHz and boosts upwards to 1.60 GHz. The chip has 4 MB of L3 enshroud. We don't know about the graphics role of this chip just information technology will exist featured on ultra-slim form factors such as ultra-books and Apple'south Mac Air. The Kaby Lake lineup is currently planned for launch in second half of 2022 and so we should be expecting some early on board samples for the desktop lineup to appear at Computex 2022.

Intel Desktop CPU Generations Comparison:

	Intel Sandy Bridge	Intel Ivy Span	Intel Haswell	Intel Broadwell	Intel Skylake	Intel Kaby Lake	Intel Coffee Lake	Intel Coffee Lake Refresh	Intel Comet Lake	Intel Rocket Lake
Processor Architecture	Sandy Bridge	Ivy Bridge	Haswell	Broadwell	Skylake	Kaby Lake	Coffee Lake	Coffee Lake	Comet Lake	Rocket Lake
Processor Process	32nm	22nm	22nm	14nm	14nm	14nm+	14nm++	14nm++	14nm++	14nm++
Processors Cores (Max)	4/8	iv/8	4/8	4/viii	iv/8	iv/8	six/12	viii/16	x/20	ten/20?
Platform Chipset	6-Serial	7-Series	8-Series	ix-Series	100-Series	200-Serial	300-Series	300-Series	400-Series	400-Series?
Platform Socket	LGA 1155	LGA 1155	LGA 1150	LGA 1150	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1200	TBD
Memory Support	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR4/DDR3L	DDR4/DDR3L	DDR4	DDR4	DDR4	DDR4
TDPs	35-95W	35-77W	35-84W	65W	35-91W	35-91W	35-95W	35-95W	35-127W	TBD
Platform	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA
Launch	2011	2012	2013-2014	2015	2015	2017	2017	2018	2020	2021