The processor is a tribute to the modern PC.
During the press conference of this year's Computex fair in Taiwan, Intel's Jubilee Processor launched all the whispers and whispered last week.
The processor is Intel's first to break the 5 GHz wall, soon 50 years after the founding of the company, and has been named Core i7-8086K.
The new i7-8086K is a tribute to the little legendary Intel 8086, if that's the identical successor 8088 was used in IBM's first PC - which in turn formed the basis for the modern computer.
Intel's most powerful enthusiast processor
Here we see the original Intel 8086 processor from 1978 next to the new Core i7-8086K. Photo: Intel Corporation
If we disregard processors that only fit Intel's Extreme Platform (HEDT), the i7-8086K becomes the most powerful processor the company has to offer.
As the new boss of the 8th generation Coffee Lake family, it puts it with six cores and 12 threads. The same goes for the former top model i7-8700K, but as we can see from Intel's own information, the latter has 300 MHz lower base and turbine frequency.
The 4 GHz base frequency allows the new processor to work on itself with all six cores in turn while the 5 GHz turbo frequency can only be reached when a program, or a game, is operated by only one kernel. For example, if two or three cores work together, the operating frequency will be slightly lower, for example, 4.9 or 4.8 GHz - but the exact numbers for this do not inform Intel.