Romanian tech site shares early review of Intel Core i7-8700K

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The 21 page review shares benchmarks undertaken in popular PC apps and games.

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R5 1600X yielding a better FireStrike physics score than 8600K at 5.1GHz? Ho hum. Shame it doesn't translate into anything real.

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Originally Posted by Ozaron

R5 1600X yielding a better FireStrike physics score than 8600K at 5.1GHz? ...

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FireStrike physics is well threaded, so yeah, 6C/12T is always likely to best a 6C/6T, even with the IPC and clock speed advantage...

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Originally Posted by scaryjim

FireStrike physics is well threaded, so yeah, 6C/12T is always likely to best a 6C/6T, even with the IPC and clock speed advantage...

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So perhaps an indication to how something like AotS might perform?

At this rate I will go back to my VIA Cyrix III @ 733mhz

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