All PC configurations were completed with an RTX 2080 Ti, 32GB of DDR4-3200 CL14 memory and a Corsair Hydro H150i Pro 360mm AIO liquid cooler. The new 10th-gen Core processors were tested on the Asus ROG Maximus XII Extreme and all Ryzen on the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master. To see how the Core i7-8700K handles itself in 2020, we've tested it on the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra. The 10600K is $100 cheaper, but it was released roughly two and half years later, so we can safely say 8700K owners got their money's worth in that time. Both are unlocked parts that typically hit similar clock speeds once overclocked. The i5-10600K is clocked more aggressively out of the box, but it shares its specifications with the 8700K. If you follow our CPU coverage you'll know we have picked the new Core i5-10600K as the best value option for high refresh rate gamers.
#I7 8700k cinebench upgrade
If you happen to own it, we doubt you'll be feeling the need to upgrade any time soon. From day one we called it 'The King of Gaming' and although it was technically superseded by the 9900K and then the 10900K, it's still a very capable gaming processor. The 7700K was already a gaming beast, but with more cores the 8700K was set to retain that title for a much longer period.
#I7 8700k cinebench series
You could argue they should have made these moves years earlier than they did, which would have made Ryzen's splash onto the scene more of a drop, like a little trickle, not as splashy.īut they didn't, and what we ended up with was a somewhat rushed 8th generation Core series with two more cores tacked on at the high-end. This may sound bad and anti-Intel, but it's not, they were just rising to the competition. Looking back, it meant that for about the same kind of money, Intel was offering 50% more cores and this all happened within the same year, which is why we called the 7700K the worst CPU purchase of 2017. That also means games can suffer from poor performance when limited to just 4 cores. That's because after six years of quad-cores the industry is finally moving on and games are now clearly benefiting from more cores. And while that might sound like a trivial upgrade today that we have 8, 10, 12 and even 16-core desktop CPUs, at the time it was a big deal and in many ways still is.
For the first time in half a decade Intel finally upgraded their flagship Core i7 from 4 cores and 8 threads, to 6 cores and 12 threads. That's because less than a year after the release of the 7700K, Intel pushed out the 8700K on an incompatible platform for roughly the same price.īasically if you bought a 7700K upon release or anytime before October 2017, you were in for a shafting once the 8700K dropped. If you were building a gaming PC around four years ago, it was a bit of a slap in the face for some Core i7 owners. It's time we revisited the good old Core i7-8700K, an Intel CPU we're rather fond of after it remained at the top of the game for quite some time, and maybe even today.īut not everyone may have the same kind of feeling towards it.
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