AN UPGRADE THAT’S FINALLY WORTH IT

Oh, Internet. We know you’ve been throwing shade at Intel’s 8th-gen 6-core Core CPUs since they were announced. In fact, we bet you’re snidely commenting in YouTube or Reddit right now that the CPU is just another re-badge of the “same old thing.”

Well guess what? While it is essentially a derivative of the previous CPU, there’s a whole lot more to the 8th-gen Core i7 than you think. It’s enough of a difference, in fact, that it’s probably one of the rare times we can say it may be worth upgrading over the previous CPU generation. So yeah, that means it’s a big deal. We’ll explain why—and show you benchmarks to prove it—right here.

WHAT EXACTLY IS 8TH-GEN CORE?

First, we had 8th-gen Core i7 “Coffee Lake S” for desktops.

Then we had 8th gen Core i7 “Kaby Lake R” for ultraportable laptops. Why it’s called Kaby Lake R instead of Coffee Lake U we don’t know.

Now, we finally get 8th-gen Core i7 “Coffee Lake