T-series - These are 35W desktop processors, which power everyday machines such as AIOs, office computers and more. No Suffix - These are normal desktop-class processors without overclocking capabilities. Although, for the sake of keeping it as simple and relevant as possible, we are detailing only the ones which you will encounter in the 8th gen lineup as deciphered further down below. Confusing as is, Intel has even more suffixes than the ones mentioned here. What do these suffix U, H, HK, M, T, K and G mean?īefore we delve into the specifics of all these new processors, you need to know what exactly the Suffix at the end of these processor names mean.

Intel has also mentioned previously that the company will jump to 10nm process node within the 8th gen architecture, which might make things confusing, but let's focus on the present for the moment. Although, there is one G-series SKU as well which packs an AMD Radeon Vega GPU onboard, but uses a Kaby Lake microarchitecture for the CPU cores itself. The 11 new mobile and the 9 new desktop processors are all thankfully based on the latest Coffee Lake architecture, which makes things easier to understand.

On the desktop side of things, Intel introduced the 8th gen lineup in October, but these processors were based on the newer Coffee Lake microarchitecture using the 14nm++process node. However, Intel improved the performance drastically by adding two more cores per chip throughout the i5 and i7 stack and adding multithreading throughout the entire stack. Intel called this lineup the Kaby Lake R(efresh) lineup. You see the 8th gen Intel mobile processors launched last year in August which recently made their way into laptops were all based on the Kaby Lake microarchitecture using the 14nm+ process node. Kaby Lake henceforth had a 14nm+ process node and the 8th gen processor lineup thus features a 14nm++ process node. The last gen (7th gen) Kaby Lake processor lineup was based on 2015 Skylake microarchitecture which originally introduced the 14nm processing node.

Intel has been stuck at the 14nm manufacturing node for quite some time now. So, it is a legitimate question to ask, which one to buy or invest into? Hence, to give you some clarity on the matter, here is a speculative analysis on where these chips might fall. On the desktop side, there are now 15 parts. Combined, this brings the total count on mobile processors to 16 parts (not counting 5 G-series processors). These new 8th gen Intel processors join the already available 5 laptop class processors and 6 desktop processors. Intel’s current generation of processor lineup is quite confusing as is, but it didn’t stop Intel from adding 11 laptop processors and 9 desktop processors along with its new H370, H310 and B360 chipsets to its portfolio.

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