Incoming
chip might be a budget champ, going by these leaked specs
Intel’s
10th-gen Comet Lake desktop CPUs are hopefully set to arrive soon (although we might still be waiting until June) and it’s
possible that the minnow of the next-gen range could make the biggest impact in
some ways – as an incredibly tempting budget gaming processor.
The Core
i3-10100 might sit at the bottom of Comet Lake’s CPU hierarchy, but going by a
leak from the SiSoft Sandra database (highlighted by the eagle-eyed Tum_Apisak
once again), this chip is actually specced similarly to the Core i7-6700K – a
much-respected and still excellent processor for gaming.
As PC GamesN, which
spotted this tweet, points out, the respective specs are very similar – both
the i3-10100 and i7-6700K are quad-core and eight-thread chips, with the former
having a base clock of 3.6GHz and boost to 4.3GHz, assuming this leak is
correct of course.
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That
compares to a boost of 4.2GHz for the 6700K, so you’re actually getting more
juice potentially with the Comet Lake i3 offering, although the older Skylake
chip has a higher base clock (4GHz).
Budget assault
Intel
needs to do something, and alongside the flagship 10-core Comet Lake offering
at the high-end, perhaps its strategy is kind of a pincer movement with the
Core i3-10100 providing a compelling assault at the other end – the budget
sector of the desktop CPU market.
Exciting processor times indeed, although
there are some caveats, including that upgraders will need to bear in mind that
they’ll require a new motherboard (with an LGA 1200 socket) for
compatibility with the Comet Lake processors.
Also,
while quad-core processors remain a fine proposition for many games, there are
titles out there which demand more than four cores ideally, and a good deal of
gamers are looking for multi-core specifications way in excess of four because
of that. From a future-proofing perspective, quad-core obviously isn’t ideal
either.
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