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...

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 will use an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 FE, which is about as fast as the Quadro P5000 used so far.

Watch Dogs 2

The game wants at least four real cores and doesn't say no if more threads could be processed in parallel thanks to SMT. Nevertheless, the game does not scale 100% perfectly and so it happens that a quite high clocked four-core can keep up without SMT.

Metro Last Light

Metro is taking a lot of computing weight – especially for physics calculation – because we have disabled PhysX in general. In addition, we do not use any anti-aliasing modes and SSAO to keep frame rates as high as possible. Even if one cannot speak of a general CPU limit, between the fastest and slowest CPU in the test field there is again about ten percent performance difference in the image output.

Again, in both games we can see that Kaby Lake and Skylake don't give themselves anything at the same time – although this statement is not improved by the constant repetition.

Integrated graphics

Of course, no one will seriously think about playing current games with an integrated graphics solution when you've spent so much money on CPU and motherboard. Nevertheless, we are testing two games in settings that still allow us to use usable frame rates, even if Intel's drivers are not a real revelation in this field. We also want to test how AutoCAD copes with the integrated graphics solution. Since the FX-9590 is the only CPU that does not have an integrated graphics solution, we used an APU in the form of the A10-7890K instead.

iGP: Half Life 2 – Lost Coast

Half Life 2 always goes, even on small graphics solutions. The only thing that is important here is the beat and thus the IPC performance, because when the game was developed, four or more computing cores were not even to be thought of. Intel's driver works quite neatly, so AMD's APU is slowed down by the very low IPC performance of the processor part despite the much better graphics solution. The game runs on a core – and you can see this very clearly from the chart data.

iGP: Bioshock Infinite

Now, however, we not only want to look at the IPC performance in love, but also to test what happens when the graphics solution is pushed to the limit, because the CPU part is eliminated as a limiting factor in all subjects. And behold – the APU is the queen among the graphic beggars and pushes itself nonchalantly to the top.

iGP: AutoCAD 3D Performance

We can put the fact that you can work in 2D quite commod with the CPUs, because the results are almost the same as those of the Quadro P5000, because here in any case the CPU has limited – we already know the reasons.

In the case of the 3D perfomance index, this is no different, since the CPU remains the most important factor. Thus, we see again how to use with a lot of clock and high IPC performance. The APU cannot keep up despite good graphics solutions and better drivers; it's high time for Raven Ridge. You can be curious!