Intel Core i5-8600K: Six mid-range cores

1 - Einführung und Test-Setup 2 - 3DMark, VRMark, Civilization AI Test 3 - Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 4 - Battlefield 1 5 - Civilization VI 6 - Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War III 7 - Project Cars 8 - Far Cry Primals 9 - Hitman (2016) 10 - Grand Theft Auto (GTA) V 11 - DTP, Office, Multimedia und Kompression 12 - Workstation 2D- und 3D-Performance 13 - CPU-Computing und Rendering 14 - Wissenschaftlich-technische Berechnungen und HPC 15 - Übertaktung, Leistungsaufnahme, Temperaturen 16 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

Since Coffee Lake-S is becoming more and more a digital launch and the hardware is not really available in quantities, we could actually take our time. The new Intel Core i5-8600K is also more of a Fata Morgana, which is supposed to disturb AMD's Ryzen even without real physical availability. But whether this product launch, which is becoming more and more of an announcement, will actually bring what intel hopes for, remains to be seen.

In our detailed launch article "More Cores for the People: Coffee Lake-S with Intel Core i7-8700K and Core i7 8700 in Test", we have already discussed the innovations, the chip, the socket and the new chipset in great detail, so that we can take a look at the bored redundancy. If you would like to read it again, please click on the link above.

As an alternative, AMD still has matching Ryzen CPUs in the race, although a price adjustment makes many of them seem even more attractive. After all, you don't have to invest in a new platform with every new refresh and also for the direct Zen successor, the socket should remain compatible according to AMD. Good boards, which are also suitable for overclocking, can even be obtained for well under 100 euros, so that an AMD total system could already be a lure in terms of price.

We therefore provide the Core i5-8600K with the price-matching Ryzen 5 1600X and Ryzen 7 1700, which we have overclocked to the limits of stable operation just like Intel's Core i5-8600K. This comparison will make the Ryzen 7 1700 appear in a certainly not uninteresting new light.

The specifications

The TDP also gives Intel 97 watts for the Core i5-8600K, but it remains to be seen what the motherboard manufacturers will make of it and whether all-core turbo clock speeds will be made again this time, which are significantly higher than the TDP classes. Be. We will come back to this later in the power consumption measurements.

The MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC and our test setup

MSI continues the Z-series of Gaming Pro motherboards chronologically and again gives the current offshoot similar features to the previous models. In the end, the price positioning on the market should also be similar. The exact board details and specifications can be found on the manufacturer's side if you are interested.

We have already described the new test methodology in the basic article "How we test graphics cards, as of February 2017" in great detail and so we now only refer to this detailed description for the sake of simplicity. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so.

In this case, only the hardware configuration with CPU, RAM, motherboard, as well as the new cooling is different, so that the summary in table form quickly gives a brief overview of the system used here and today: