A new processor on socket LGA-1200? That's the surprise Intel has just unleashed.
In autumn 2024, Intel put an end to the career of its LGA-1700 socket by releasing the first processors on Arrow Lake architecture, based on an even denser socket with 1851 pins, the LGA-1851. As usual, Intel won't be keeping this new socket around for very long, and it's likely to bow out at the end of next year with the release of the first Nova Lake chips and their LGA-1954 socket.
Now that we're talking about the LGA-1700, LGA-1851 and LGA-1954 sockets, Intel's announcement is bound to come as a surprise. In fact, the American company has just launched a processor based on an even older socket. The Core i5-110 could therefore be seen as a way of revitalizing a rather old platform and showing that it has nothing to envy AMD... unless...
Intel Core i5-110 specifications © Intel
If the Core i5-110 is indeed a processor on socket LGA-1200, it's hard to talk about new chips. While its name is new, everything leads us to believe that it's simply a rebadging of the old Core i5-10400, which went on sale in the second quarter of 2020. Both chips are of the Comet Lake generation, with the same number of cores (6) and the same operating frequencies (2.9 GHz base, 4.3 GHz turbo). The iGPU is also identical (Intel UHD Graphics 630) and the TDP is the same (65 W).
We can therefore confirm that the two processors are strictly identical, and Intel hasn't embarrassed itself by the fact that, despite the five years separating the launches of the Core i5-10400 and Core i5-110, the latter is sold at the same price as its predecessor ($200). In fact, the only difference between the two is in the packaging: the Core i5-110 is distributed only as a tray, i.e. without a box or ventirad. Why this launch? No doubt Intel has received requests for this kind of low-cost chip...
