New chips added include both Broadwell and Skylake designs for the notebook and desktop sector, including models without integrated GPU support.
New chips added include both Broadwell and Skylake designs for the notebook and desktop sector, including models without integrated GPU support.
Intel have quietly added eight new CPU models to their sales portfolio in December, including two desktop designs and a number of mobile variants. The exact reason behind these additions isn’t known – they could be slight tweaks for the OEM market, or salvaged parts to specifically clear otherwise unusable inventory – but they make for interesting speculation.
Two of the eight CPUs are classed with a ‘P’ suffix, a label which Intel have used to denote desktop chips with disabled integrated GPU. The dual-core Core i3-6098P appears to be a neutered i3-6100, potentially lacking both integrated graphics and having a lower base clock (3.6GHz rather than 3.7GHz). The quad-core i5-6402P by contrast sees a frequency bump compared to the i5-6400 of one bin, now up to 2.8GHz. With a lack of iGPU, it will be interesting to see if these models are overclockable with the non-K techniques, and if so to what extent.
New SKUs Listed Dec. 2015. 6000-series parts are Skylake, 5000-series Broadwell
The other designs all have the ‘U’ suffix of a Low-Power Intel CPU design, typically reserved for the mobile sector (and in this case explicitly listed as mobile parts). What is new however is the inclusion of an additional ‘D’ suffix in four which, according to CPU-World, hasn’t been used on Intel’s parts in the past. No significant changes compared to non-‘D’ class SKUs are listed, so it likely in some fashion impacts the CPUs overall feature-set.
