YouTuber tests Intel Core i7-8700K in Cinebench R15

[deepblue08]

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

[Spreadie]

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

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.

[elites2012]

ill stick with my ryzen 1600. @ $190

[mapesdhs]

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.

[ByteMyAscii]

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.

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.

[ohmaheid]

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