It appears that Intel's upcoming 7th generation Core Kaby Lake CPUs will not be a whole lot different from the earlier generations as the flagship Core i7-7700K will still be a quad-core part.

Of course, the 7th generation Core Kaby Lake CPUs will be based on Intel's 14nm manufacturing process so there will be plenty of improvements compared to the 6th generation Core Skylake CPUs, mostly when it comes to power efficiency.

Leaked in SiSoft Sandra benchmarks and spotted by Wccftech.com, the flagship Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake CPU will be a quad-core part, same as the flagship Skylake Core i7-6700K CPU. According to the leak, it should be clocked at 3.6GHz base and 4.2GHz Turbo clock, but these might change before the launch as this might be an engineering sample.

The Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K flagship CPU will still have support for Intel Hyper Threading, so it will feature 8 logical CPUs as well as come with integrated graphics processor with 24 Execution Units. It will also pack 256KB of L2 cache per core and 8MB of shared L3 cache.

Intel's 7th generation Core Kaby Lake CPUs will still support socket LGA1151, which means it will be compatible with both Intel's current 100-series as well as future 200-series chipset motherboards.

Unfortunately, there are no rumors regarding the launch date but these are generally expected later this year.



Source: Wccftech.com.