Intel core i7-8700k and core i5

We have a new leak on the performance of the new Intel Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8600K processors, this time it is quite interesting since it is the 3DMark Fire Strike test that gives us a very good idea of ​​the potential of these new silicon for video games.

Intel Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8600K show their performance in 3DMark Fire Strike

The Intel Core i7-8700K processor has given a score of 19, 673 points while its little brother, the Core i5-8600K has been very close with about 18, 616 points, so it seems to be confirmed that the new Core i5 of the Coffee Lake family will be the most interesting processors for video game fans. Traditionally, the Core i5 have been a much more interesting option to play than the Core i7 since the difference in performance is usually between 5% and 10%, while the price difference can be up to approximately 30%. A difference of money that we can invest in a more powerful graphics card or in improving other components such as the power supply.

The most negative point of the Intel Coffee Lake processors is that they need the new 300 series motherboards to work, since they are not compatible with the current 100 and 200 series motherboards that arrived together with Skylake and Kaby Lake in a respective. These new processors are expected to arrive on October 5 along with the new generation of motherboards that will give them compatibility.

These results of the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8600K show that they will be very tough rivals for the AMD Ryzen 7, because despite having 2 less cores, they have greater power for each core, which means that in tasks not making heavy use of multi-threaded processing should be well above it.

Source: pclab