Intel Kaby Lake: Core i7-7700K, i7-7700, i5-7600K and i5-7600 in review

Intel is currently in the midst of the biggest restructuring in the company's history. In terms of its own growth forecasts, the focus is increasingly shifting toward IoT, cloud, and data centers. At the same time, the CPU... 200 chipsets and Optane Ready support Both the 200 and 100 chipsets support Kaby Lake and Skylake processors. This dual compatibility could create an interesting dilemma for enthusiasts who want to create a Skyl... Processors Core i7-7700K Core i7-7700 Core i7-7600K Core i7-7600 Motherboard and memory As the basis of our test platform, we use both the seventh (Kaby Lake) and the sixth (Skylake) generation of core CPUs MSIs Z... Benchmark selection and practical relevance Of course, you could make it easy and roll out synthetic benchmarks that show exactly one thing in the end: that there is actually nothing to show. In any case, not if the respective equivalent ... OpenGL: Cinebench R15 Before we let the very hard guys out, we insert a little synthetic foot insert in the form of the OpenGL benchmark in the Cinebench package. Takt goes ahead, you don't need more than four cores here. Own... Since we were always asked which graphics card or CPU is best when using Adobe CC & co. more intensively, we can now give an answer at least with regard to the CPU - at least as long as it is on our ... 3D-Peformance with dedicated graphics card Of course, the reader will also want to know how good (or bad) a new CPU is when playing challenging titles. For the next two tests, we use an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 FE, which is about as ... Important preliminary remark We have not known since today that the processors are subject to very large variations in quality during production. This time, however, our test samples are not directly from Intel, but are normal retail CPUs... This CPU does not have an open multiplier compared to the core i7-7700K and also has a significantly lower base clock. In addition, Intel's other values (e.g. Ringbus) deliberately chosen in such a way that even an overclocking over an increase... This CPU, like the Core i7-7700K, has an open multiplier and also has a significantly higher base clock than the non-K models. Of course, this also opens up enough space for your own manual overclocking attempts. If the ex works is... This CPU, like the Core i7-7000, does not have an open multiplier compared to the Core i5-7600K and also has a significantly lower base clock. Also with this CPU, an overclocking overane was increased BCLK by certain factory specifications... Golden Sample or Potato Chip? As already written, we have tested this time with pure retail CPUs - exactly with the material that the normal buyer can expect if he wants to upgrade as an "Early Adaptor" in a timely manner. However, it is... Intel's last generations of Intel's CPU have been characterized by a slow progression in incremental upgrades and have not exactly helped to keep their own products at a distance from those of the...

OpenGL: Cinebench R15

Before we let the very hard guys out, we insert a little synthetic foot insert in the form of the OpenGL benchmark in the Cinebench package. Takt goes ahead, you don't need more than four cores here. Actually no new insight in such programs, but once again a nice transition into the realm of the working animals.

Creo 3.0

The biggest drawback of the Creo benchmark – its extremely long runtime – is also its biggest advantage. The longer a well-designed test runs, the greater the reproducibility and stability. If after one hour the results of different CPUs are still the same, the user will not be able to feel or measure any difference in daily use.

	Description
Workflows	CPU Composite (1) I/O Composite (1) Graphic Composite (6)
Content	– Open, generate, close, and delete workflows – GPU and CPU-based output calculations (Tessellation, Mass Properties Analysis) – All forms of possible shading functions and movements (rotate/pan/zoom) – Use of Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) – Bump mapping and image background support – Snapshots

Now let's look at the three composite results of each benchmark content and start with the rated CPU performance. Again, the emulated eight threads only stand in our way; a real four-nucleus makes the job much better! At least in pure CPU scoring, but that's unfortunately only half the truth.

If one looks at the visible result in the form of the graphical output, then SMT steps back into the background and only the higher bar counts. This also results in Skylake and Kaby Lake being absolutely and absoluteper per core with the same clock and equivalent CPU. provide almost identical results.

The same applies to the I/O composite, which rounds the picture well. Kaby Lake therefore only has advantages over the higher clock, whereby one really has to weigh the added value compared to possibly existing technology, so that the whole thing does not come to an expensive side-grade.

Solidworks 2016

Solidworks from Dassault Systems is also a program that is very CPU-dependent in its great functionality. Reason enough to take a closer look at this benchmark, which is also running for a very long time, because it acts like Creo 3.0 at the same time as an almost perfect stability test, in the course of which errors usually occur with manually overclocked CPUs rather than with the often used Prime95 or OCCT passes

	Description
Workflows	CPU Composite (2 Tests) Graphic Composite (9 Tests)
Content	Cpu: – Tessellation – PhotoView360 Rendering Gpu: – RealView – Ambient Occlusion on – Shadows – Up to 4.75 million triangles – Order Independent Transparency (OIT)

Description

Workflows

CPU Composite (2 Tests)
Graphic Composite (9 Tests)

Content

Cpu:
– Tessellation
– PhotoView360 Rendering

Gpu:
– RealView
– Ambient Occlusion on
– Shadows
– Up to 4.75 million triangles
– Order Independent Transparency (OIT)

With the CPU composite you can see very clearly how thread count and high clock speed can give an advantage. SMT helps enormously and the expected picture results when an application can parallize reasonably well in calculations. In the concrete test, it is CPU-based tessellation and rendering.

The graphics output, on the other hand, primarily benefits from the clock and thus also from the IPC performance of the CPU used. So, of course, the comparison between Kaby Lake and Skylake at the same time is worthwhile.

2016 AutoCAD

This software suite has long been a classic, which would also work well with any consumer graphics card – because instead of OpenGL, you now rely on DirectX for 3D graphics.

The 2D test also reveals any weaknesses in IPC performance, because since the introduction of the Unified Shader, graphics cards no longer have any special 2D units, and the hardware-based implementation of 2D graphics commands is also due to the driver model of the versions of Windows since Vista have been almost completely eliminated.

For example, many of the steps must first be calculated through the CPU before direct output can occur. The result is then also correspondingly

If kaby Lake and Skylake are still a little apart in 2D mode at the same time, you have a complete tie again in 3D mode. Multi-threading is not the core competence here either, but above all the high bar.