Core i7 2600K and Core i7 8700K compared

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Great article from Hardware Canucks:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...orthwhile.html

[jimborae]

Thanks Cat. Very interesting article and confirms what it thought, for me there is absolutely no reason to upgrade my X79 & GTX 1070 platform.

[wildman_33]

I watch a similar video from tech yes city about the i5 750, it confirmed what I thought really, that for gaming any decent quad core from the last 7-8 years will easily handle pretty much anything.

[Fury559]

I watch a similar video from tech yes city about the i5 750, it confirmed what I thought really, that for gaming any decent quad core from the last 7-8 years will easily handle pretty much anything.

If you can deal with stuttering and poor frametime sure!

[scaryjim]

... confirms what it thought, for me there is absolutely no reason to upgrade my X79 & GTX 1070 platform.

There's definitely some interesting results there.

The increase in productivity apps isn't really a surprise, but I thought it was note-worthy that the one lightly-threaded app they tested still showed a 50% increase in performance between SB and CL. Given the clock speed advantage is ~ 23%, I reckon that's over 20% increased IPC between the two processors.

A couple of games where the 2600k + GTX 1080 Ti gave worse 1%s than the 8700k + GTX 1070, even at 1440p: clear indication that some scenes are CPU bottlenecked there. OTOH the results for a more reasonable GPU upgrade were close enough to suggest that if you're looking at a GTX 1070 (or lower) there's currently no good reason to upgrade.

My takeaway from that, though, is that the same could be said of a Ryzen 5 1500X (or an overclocked 1400), which should have very similar performance to the 2600k. In which case, perhaps looking at the Ryzen 3 right now is a poor decision? It would be nice to know how Ryzen 3 and 5 compare to a 2600k....!*


*EDIT: hmm, decided to go do some digging, and it turns out that Anandtech bench has gaming benchmarks with a variety of GPUs for CPU comparisons. Using a GTX 1060 or RX 480, there's very little difference in the results of a Ryzen 3 1300X and a Ryzen 5 1500X, even in the 99th percentiles. Almost certainly not enough difference to warrant the extra outlay for a budget gaming PC!

[OilSheikh]

And, that's the reason I am still with my trusty i7 2600 and the ASUS P67 motherboard ( the same one in the pic on the article ) and there's absolutely no need to upgrade.

[simplyu]

And, that's the reason I am still with my trusty i7 2600 and the ASUS P67 motherboard ( the same one in the pic on the article ) and there's absolutely no need to upgrade.

For the time being, it is good

[Sam__]

And, that's the reason I am still with my trusty i7 2600 and the ASUS P67 motherboard ( the same one in the pic on the article ) and there's absolutely no need to upgrade.

It's surprising how much upgrade hype is about the feeling of having new and shiny. At the moment if I'm honest there seems to be more movement in HDD performance than CPU, so that's where I'm putting my upgrade money.

[rob4001]

I know its a massive complaint about intel changing there socket all the time but most of us have a cpu 4-5 years these days. I don't expect the socket to be the same when I do get round to upgrading. Just get best cpu you can afford should last a while as shown.

[cascadde]

On YouTube Hardware Unboxed did a great video recently with a slightly newer CPU v 8700k - 'Overclocking Battle, Core i7-4770K vs. 8700K'


TLW - same story as the 2700k, not much point at all in upgrading to an 8700k.