First Review of Intel Core i7-8700K Leaks Out

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Chinese site EXPreview has posted an early review of Intel’s Core i7-8700K: gaming benchmarks at 1920x1080 show an appreciable improvement in games compared to the 7700K and 7800X. In regard to multi-threaded applications, the 8700K is up to 42% faster than the 7700K.
 
Jim Kim said:
But can it beat Ryzen?
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Asking the imporatant questions here!

On a more serious note, "42% faster in multi threaded applications", well, the finally decided that we the victims* were worthy of receiving a six core cpu from them at a more reachable price, so is 2 more cores and 4 more threads so that result is expected.

Lets see if AMD cuts the price even further to put more pressure on intel.
 
Lets see if AMD cuts the price even further to put more pressure on intel.
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They will have to cut prices substantially at least on the 1800X. There is no way AMD can charge more for that versus the i7 8700K.
 
No real difference except the two cores for multi-threaded applications.
 
not bad have to see what Hard has to say but likely sticking with my 4790k for another gen or 2
 
grtitan said:
Asking the imporatant questions here!

On a more serious note, "42% faster in multi threaded applications", well, the finally decided that we the victims* were worthy of receiving a six core cpu from them at a more reachable price, so is 2 more cores and 4 more threads so that result is expected.

Lets see if AMD cuts the price even further to put more pressure on intel.
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1700 is +2cores and $60-$80 cheaper already.
 
drescherjm said:
They will have to cut prices substantially at least on the 1800X. There is no way AMD can charge more for that versus the i7 8700K.
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Are you assuming all people in the market for a $350-400 CPU only play computer games and all of them overclock? That's the wrong assumption.
 
Elios said:
not bad have to see what Hard has to say but likely sticking with my 4790k for another gen or 2
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Especially considering how many jizz donations you need to give to afford DDR4 at their current prices :eek:
Unoid said:
1700 is +2cores and $60-$80 cheaper already.
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While I love Zen, this is +2c/4t over Skylake with the same IPC and (potentially) the same max OC.

Roughly speaking (Covfefelake vs. Zen, being conservative on Covfefelake) :
1) IPC : +6% (assuming Zen ~ Haswell)
2) Max OC : +20% (4.8GHz vs 4GHz)
3) Threads : -25% (assuming perfect, linear MT scaling)

Overall MT : 1.06 x 1.2 x 0.75 = ~ 0.96

Guesstimate - about the same / close in MT, fuhgettaboutit in ST
 
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6/6 i5's depending on how well they clock could be the ticket for long time holdouts who don't want to drop the huge cash on a new i7.

How does the lineup of 4/4 and 6/6 compare to 4/8 and 6/12? Exciting times, no? Or maybe 'about time!'
 
It's a lower clocking 7700k with two more cores. I'll keep My 7700k @ 5.0. Clock is still king on a modern desktop. Hopefully Windows will mature well enough for multithreading to be like what's happening in phones at the moment , but those os where built from scratch to use low resources and to work better at multitasking.
 
the_real_7 said:
It's a lower clocking 7700k with two more cores. I'll keep My 7700k @ 5.0. Clock is still king on a modern desktop. Hopefully Windows will mature well enough for multithreading to be like what's happening in phones at the moment , but those os where built from scratch to use low resources and to work better at multitasking.
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What makes you think that it will clock lower? The single core turbo is already at 4.7. I would hope that it will overclock at least 300mhz.
That would get me off my 4570k
 
I think he is talking about the stock clocks of the 6C/12T versus the stock clocks of the 4C/8T without turbo. That is lower.
 
drescherjm said:
I think he is talking about the stock clocks of the 6C/12T versus the stock clocks of the 4C/8T without turbo. That is lower.
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That makes sense.

Looks like a good upgrade for me though. I've dialed my OC back to 4.5 lately because it doesnt take near the voltage 4.7 requires. I expect to pick up ~11% clock speed and ~5-10% ipc and 2 cores and 8 threads.

It is nice to be excited about buying computer parts again.
 
I'm somewhat interested in this. My wife's hand-me-down build is kind of old, so this is a decent excuse for me to upgrade.
 
so after all, thanks to AMD, intel pretty much gives you 2 almost-free cores.

msrp isn't much different from 7700k


now where is the H early review?
 
Unoid said:
1700 is +2cores and $60-$80 cheaper already.
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1700 destroys the i5 as well. i7 is pretty good option if you are only gaming and already have a solid GPU.

everything else seems like hot garbage next to Ryzen.

I still have zero reason to upgrade from my 6700k
 
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