YouTuber tests Intel Core i7-8700K in Cinebench R15

I welcome the bump in performance due to extra cores...as long as the price stays the same.

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Originally Posted by lumireleon

Soon the 8700K will beat any Ryzen 6 core in multi-threaded workloads when windows sends an update plus a series of firmware updates.

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Well, given the price is expected be ~£350 - almost twice that of the R5 1600 remember - things don't look too good. You can buy a Ryzen 7 and motherboard for that kind of money.

ill stick with my ryzen 1600. @ $190

Isn't it rather odd that a 6c CL can't beat a modestly oc'd 5820K? I would have expected the CL to be better than this. Having said that, if CL does have good oc'ing headroom then any underwhelming stock performance won't matter so much.

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Originally Posted by Andy14

I'm not convinced. Multicore CPU's have been around for a long, long time. During that time many applications (especially games) have made no real drive to embrace them. The i5 has had 4 cores for a long time, the i7 8 (HT) but they are seldom fully utilised.

I hope the move to more cores helps nudge things along, but I don't think that gaming requirements will change too fast.

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Newer games are embracing multi-threading more.
It is the older ones that are the problem.
Easier to design around it from scratch than to try and implement it later.

Assuming the 8700k will overclock like its predecessors...i.e. 4.6ghz, it looks like a handy chip. Depends on the pricing though.