Intel expands its line of Coffee Lake processors with the Core i5 8500

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It is not surprising that Intel is going to expand its catalog of eighth generation processors, named Coffee Lake, with new intermediate models, and this is demonstrated again with a new filtering through the online database of SiSoft Sandra , which has revealed the existence of the new Intel Core i5 8500 (without K).

In fact, it was quite rare that Intel had released the Core i5 8600K, Core i7 8700 and Core i7 8700K models and the 8500 series had been left in the inkwell (especially when the Core i5 8400 is also on the street), if we stick to the releases of the previous generations of the manufacturer; but better late than never, and the company's most economical hexa-core model should already be on the verge of being launched, in line with the fact that its first benchmarks have appeared in SiSoft's online database Sandra

Intel Core i5 8500, technical characteristics
The new processor that will now complete the family of Intel's Coffee Lake processors comes with six physical cores and six process threads (as usual in Core i5 processors, it lacks Hyperthreading) running at a nominal speed of 3 Ghz, although it is true that in the publication in the database of Sandra does not appear what is its Turbo speed. Since the previous model, the Core i5 8400 has a turbo speed of 4 Ghz, we can expect however that this model works at 4.2 Ghz or even 4.3 Ghz, although this is a mere assumption.

The processor has 9 MB of shared L3 cache and a TDP of only 65 watts, so given its power and its consumption we will be facing one of the most efficient processors of the eighth generation of Intel processors. In terms of performance, according to the results that have been published we have obtained 139.63 GOPS in the arithmetic test, with 317.88 Mpix / s in the multimedia test and 7.49 GB / s in the cryptography test, which puts it in the same category -according to performance- than the Ryzen 5 1600 of AMD.

Of course, you know that this is as usual a publication in the SiSoft Sandra database, which means that there are already samples swarming around but there is still no official announcement from the company about its launch, as well as its price. Given that the previous model, the Core i5 8400, costs $ 189 and the next model, the Core i5 8600K costs $ 259, we would have to think that this new model will have a price between the two, probably located around $ 219.