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Neodym

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My understanding so far is that the new mini uses Coffee Lake CPU's. On a german Website (link) I have read that the quad-core i3 of Coffee Lake actually use the mask of the previous gen (Kaby Lake Refresh), so it is NOT a Coffee Lake chip with disabled/defective cores, but instead a core i5 from the previous gen.

This would match the Passmark comparison (which I posted in another thread), pointing out that the i3 in the 2018 mini is close to an i7-3770, performance wise (which is still no slouch in 2018).

I'm not that deep into benchmarks & comparisons anymore, so maybe someone could chime in and tell if the impact of using Kaby Lake Refresh vs. Coffee Lake is negligible or something to consider, when pondering about core 4ci3 vs. 6ci5?!
 
My understanding so far is that the new mini uses Coffee Lake CPU's. On a german Website (link) I have read that the quad-core i3 of Coffee Lake actually use the mask of the previous gen (Kaby Lake Refresh), so it is NOT a Coffee Lake chip with disabled/defective cores, but instead a core i5 from the previous gen.
Does anyone have anything to add to this/confirm this?

In any case, the charts in the review show that the 8500 is going to consume something that is substantially higher than 90W in real use. (see the multicore cinebench and blender benchmarks for the 8400) The 8100 goes steadily above 70W even though it can not boost. I believe these tests were done with the iGPU idle/off.

Intel is really playing fast and loose with the current TDP citations.
 
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