Intel core i5 7600k, the first review leaked

The PCOnline medium has managed to get a new Intel Core i5 7600K processor and publish the first data on its performance. The processor corresponds to the new Intel Kaby Lake family that has arrived to put the finishing touch to the manufacturing process at 14 nm Tri-Gate Will it manage to improve substantially on its predecessors?

Intel Core i5 7600K features

The Core i5 7600K is part of the Intel Kaby Lake-S series that will be released on January 5, we are dealing with a chip consisting of four cores at base and turbo frequencies of 3.8 GHz and 4.2 GHz respectively. The cores are accompanied by 6MB of L3 cache for great performance, all with a 91W TDP and with the multiplier unlocked to allow overclocking. The integrated graphics correspond to the Intel HD 630 which is made up of a total of 24 EUs and promises superior performance over the previous Intel HD 530 thanks to its higher operating frequencies.

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Core i5-7600K vs Core i5 6600K: performance tests

The Core i5-7600K arrives with slightly higher operating frequencies than its predecessor the Core i5 6600K, so a significantly higher performance is expected along with the possible improvement in the IPC of the new chips. The tests show an improvement of approximately 10% compared to the previous generation Skylake, a figure very similar to what we are seeing in recent years and which is mainly due to the increase in operating frequency. With this we can deduce that the improvement in the CPI of Kaby Lake against Skylake is insignificant, estimated at 1%.

We now turn to see the results of its integrated graphics, as you can see the improvement is also very little.

Finally we see its consumption, only 5W higher than the Core i5 6600K at rest and 1W less under load, both data are from the complete system, and the working temperature is 46ºC.

Is Kaby Lake worth upgrading?

A rather complicated question, if you have a Haswell generation processor or higher, the performance gain will be very low for the economic outlay that involves changing the processor + motherboard + RAM, on the other hand if you have an Ivy Bridge processor or lower, the improvement can become interesting. We recommend waiting for the arrival of the new Zen-based AMD Summit Ridge in early 2017. before making a decision

Source: wccftech