Save zero dollars by opting for intel's gpu disabled cpus. - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-f-series-9th-gen-processors-price,38434.html The new F-series processors lack the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 iGPU, as denoted by an "F" suffix on the product name. These chips come packing the same 14nm process and Coffee Lake microarchitecture as their other 9th-Generation counterparts. They also feature the same core counts, TDPs, and frequencies. We previously weren't aware of the pricing on these new models, but Intel's new official price list reveals that the company has set their RCP (Recommended Customer Pricing) the same as their iGPU-equipped counterparts. We've confirmed that Intel's new processors have the same die as the "normal" versions, so the disabled graphics units are still physically present. We also learned the disabled graphics unit doesn't impart any performance advantages, such as longer boost duration or higher overclocking capability. Simply put, you can expect the same amount of compute performance from these chips as their normal iGPU-equipped equivalents, meaning the only advantage would be that you might actually be able to buy the processors if the normal chips are out of stock.

so make your computer objectively worse for no savings, because those integrated graphics do serve the legitimate purpose of making it at least possible to run an OS even if your graphics chip is not right

Intel iGPUs also serve some practical purposes. In Premiere, you can render video using both your CPU and iGPU. You can do the same in some 3D renderers.

Wow, is Intel just trying to lose the new CPU war? Because this is how you do it. You finally give us the GPU-less chips we've been asking for, only without any single one of the benefits we assumed it would bring. If you can't make it faster (better thermals/boost), at least make it cheaper. You're selling GPU-defect bins, they're chips you would have been throwing away before. I can understand the chips not being faster; with a good enough boost implementation, an idle iGPU will act just like a disabled one with regard to heat and power draw, so the boost limits won't change. But for fuck's sake, if you can't give better CPU performance, you need to give us better pricing. Even just a $20 difference would be plenty. As it is, I think the only people who might use this are prebuilts. They often insist on using discrete graphics (usually shitty ones) for marketing reasons, so they don't need an iGPU, and if you can promise them better availability, you might be able to sell it.

How much do we wanna bet that these are just regular CPUs whose GPUs were either defective or failed QC for some other reason? Intel, what are you doing, you fucks?

My thoughts are that intel wants for some reason to gain the same amount of money from disabled chips and let retail set the discounted price. Which is nuts, but intel got crazy after 2014, maybe some shareholder buyout from crazy people. They discontinued the cheep Atom line and now this.

System integrators will. Alienware etc. could easily go for these parts for their systems instead of the K SKUs, if those become unavailable. They're already advertising the system based on the discrete graphics card being there, so there being no iGPU won't matter to them. A decent amount of their customer base probably won't even notice.

what a steal

I know that, but the tiny, low cost, low power cherrytrail cpus I like and have so much potential, those kind of atoms discontinued for consumers.