Monday, September 11th 2017
Retail Core i7-8700K Surfaces on Geekbench Database
As Intel's 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" processors inch closer to their 5th October launch, those with early access to the retail chips are putting them through their paces. One such test landed on Geekbench database. A top-end Core i7-8700K six-core chip running on an EVGA-made, Z370 chipset-based motherboard (model code: 121-KS-E375).
Running at its standard (out of the box) clock speeds, the Core i7-8700K scored 5,773 points in the single-threaded bench, which is higher than the 4,900-ish scores one can expect from the Ryzen 7 1800X. In the multi-threaded test, it scored 24,260 points, which is lower than the 28,000-ish points typical machines with Ryzen 7 1800X score, due to the two extra cores it packs compared to the i7-8700K.
Source:
Geekbench Database
Running at its standard (out of the box) clock speeds, the Core i7-8700K scored 5,773 points in the single-threaded bench, which is higher than the 4,900-ish scores one can expect from the Ryzen 7 1800X. In the multi-threaded test, it scored 24,260 points, which is lower than the 28,000-ish points typical machines with Ryzen 7 1800X score, due to the two extra cores it packs compared to the i7-8700K.
19 Comments on Retail Core i7-8700K Surfaces on Geekbench Database
It's on par in multi-core, but slower in single core.
Because my i5 4690K (4.6Ghz) gets 5375 & 15920 in GB4.
browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/3959452
Considering an 8700K has 3 times as many threads, the Multi Threaded score seems kind of low, only being 50% higher.
50% better score seems just about right since a 8700 has 50% more cores compared to your 4690 and around the same clocks and IPC. Remember that scaling across cores is never perfect.
'Move along, nothing to see here'... lol
At 5 Ghz this baby may score over 7K single... 120 min fps here we come... hell you could probably just OC 4 Core turbo to 4.7-4.8 and drop down to 4.5 or so for 6 core turbo, and it still kills everything in sight on mainstream, with a *mild OC*.
I have 2 computers I tend to use. Ones A 4790k and the other is Dual X5670 (2x6core/12 thread).
I plan on replacing the Sever with A 1700x/1800x at some point, However, as good as Ryzen is .... I rather have More GHz then cores for my main rig. (same with X99 / X299.
I will pick up an Intel 6c/12t 4.5+ Ghz in A heartbeat.
Coffee Lake is the first worthy upgrade in many years.
I think I can hold for Ice lake. New architecture on a new process will be much better with the extra cores now.
Mmmm competition.
8700k hopefully they clock well.
I do play some RTS games which are CPU intensive, so I'll use the extra cores, I think, but main purpose is to give the 1080Ti additional help.
If however it wont go past 4.3 comfortably, then yes, worth considering, but even then I'd wait one gen probably.Honestly I think the percentage that really does a yearly upgrade, especially from Skylake to Kaby, is so minimal I doubt its worth mentioning. Lots of people are really good at posing & you don't see the millions of people who just play their games and stfu :) If the percentage was high, PC markets wouldn't be in decline ever.
I feel that the current trend of gaming in hardware has a lot to do with my age range of people, we grew up with early, usable PCs that were sort of intuitive, we've seen it grow into what it is now and there is quite a lot of disposable income to toss out as well. The surge in high end parts is definitely accountable to my age range (I'm 31 atm) and from a youth as well that is capable enough to hop on and go for PC gaming as always, also a youth with more money to spend (babyboomer parents, in Europe at least) and the young parents of today also pass on the torch. Its even becoming pop culture-ish now with E sports.