More cores for the people: Coffee Lake-S with Intel Core i7-8700K and Core i7 8700 in review

For example, you currently only launch two CPUs per class, each with two more cores. If the Core i7 has 6 cores and SMT, which allows 12 threads, the Core i5 can still have 6 cores without SMT. The Core i3 is... The Z370 chipset At first glance, not much has changed about the chipset itself, except that Intel has now reopened up to AMD and has the top three in the nomenclature. PCIe connectivity remains unchanged at 16 Lane... In the AI test of Civilization IV, all CPUs position themselves in a good way as one might expect from the technical data. Even with the Time Spy CPU test, the world of the advertised hierarchies is (almost) still in order. Positive falls here ever... For this benchmark, the Core i7-8700K is exceptionally just ahead of the Core i7-8700, albeit only at average frame rates. The differences are so small that you could almost push everything into the tolerance range. The... Even if a GPU limit is not to be denied here, the CPUs still scale up to a good 140 FPS. However, the overclocked Core i7 of both genrations will no longer bring any extra power, as you can see well on the Min-FPS. ... In Civilization, the overclocked Ryzen 7 1800X can still keep up quite well. Otherwise, the Core i7 are the dominant CPUs in this selection. However, the Core i7-7800X is the inglorious exception, as it still sorts itself behind the... Clock precedes core count and the Core i7-8700 is faster than the K-Pedant. Which brings us to the paradox of our foreword to the tests, where a CPU with nominally lower turbo clock suddenly performs better than the actually more expensive Mo... Project Cars offers a very similar image, in which the non-K model performs a tick faster. The AMD CPUs, on the other hand, have no chance and are clearly behind. Individual results of all maps Other game - same image, except that this time even the older Core i7-7700K can push itself in front of the Core i7-8700K. However, if you run at overclocked to 4.9 GHz with the same clock, the Core i7-8700K is faster again. This shows... This benchmark is effectively in the balance between the two new Core i7, while the core i7-7800X, the core i7-7700K (unclocked) and the AMD CPUs have to be significantly behind. At the same clock, the speed limit is suddenly 4.9 GHz ... In this game, the focus is on the Frame Times and the Min-FPS as a logical consequence. Otherwise, the Core i7-8700 is again a tick faster. The rest repeats itself as well as with the other benchmarks. Single... Important preliminary remark on CPU selection and overclocking Contrary to our usual handling, not benchmarking the productive areas with overclocked CPUs, as it is also rather unlikely in reality, this time we have both Coff... 2D Performance In order to better understand some of the later results, we are putting forward a good old acquaintance. With our GDI/GDI+ benchmark, we are first testing two different output methods for 2D objects, how to... CPU Performance: Workstation Of course, in the production area, not only the 3D graphics performance is important in the production area for the just-set applications, because many things are calculated by the CPU in parallel within these applications (Simu... For these test series, we use benchmarks from the rather versatile SPECwpc suite for workstations, which rely on very different mathematical calculations, which on the one hand can be perfectly parallelized and where it is at the same time a... Overclocking First of all, we are exploring the limits. To make sure that we don't run in thermal limits, because Intel still relies on the tiresome thermal paste between Die and IHS, we initially use the chiller again and cool the... Summary First of all, we would like to thank AMD and their Ryzen family. Without this wake-up call or food for thought, Intel would probably have continued to delight us with now boring four-cores in the consumer sector. But that's how the train-zwan brings...