It appears that the first third-party gaming benchmarks have been leaked online. While Intel has not lifted yet the embargo for the third-party benchmarks, Expreview has hit the ‘Publish’ button sooner than anticipated. Expreview has taked its article down, however the benchmarks have already been leaked and can be found below.
Expreview has tested Intel’s latest CPU with both default and overclock frequencies. And while the team claimed that the i7 8700K can offer up to 25% performance increase over the i7 7700K, the real results are not that great.
On default clocks, the i7 8700K is 1-2% faster than the i7 7700K in 5 modern games and two 3DMark tests. When clocked at 4.5Ghz, the i7 8700K is 7% faster than the i7 7700K in the very same benchmarks/tests.
As we can see, and while there is a noticeable performance boost in games like The Witcher 3 and HITMAN, the new CPU appears to be performing similar to the i7 7700K in some other games like The Division and Rise of the Tomb Raider.
There is a high probability that The Division is GPU limited in Expreview’s tests. After all, this is what the results suggest as there is no performance difference at all between an overclocked and a stock i7 8700K. On the other hand, the Rise of the Tomb Raider results are a bit awkward.
But anyway, until we get our hands on 720p tests (that eliminate any GPU limitation) we can’t be certain about these results. Still, they can give you an small idea of the performance that you can expect from Intel’s new CPU. Our guess is that the gap between the i7 8700K and the i7 7700K in games that are not scaling ideally on multiple CPU cores/threads will not be that great. On the other hand, games that favour a lot of CPU cores/threads will, most probably, see a noticeable performance increase.
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Just LOL…1 or 7 %…New mobo and Cpu for 7% !!!
Waste of money…Wait to see the temperature when overclocked !!!
Intel spared no expense!
you know…you are not expected to buy a new CPU every year.
true, but what if you buy the creme of the crop motherboard
and after a few years (like the Z170 deluxe) it’s practically worthless and not supported anymore
so 360$ down the gutter since the newer CPU’s are not supported
(Skylake released in Q3 2015, Kabylake Q1 2017, not even 2 years)
not that it matter much in video games, (since GPU power is everything)
but it’s definitely wasteful buy a new Mobo every 2-3 years if you’re a power user
if you’re a sane person and buy a new CPU every 5-6 years then you basically have naught to worry.
It’s a waste if the only thing you do with your PC is game. If you do more it’s a big upgrade. 40 PCIe lanes, 6 physical cores and great ipc is more than enough reasons to upgrade.
Sticking with my i5 4690K until something significant comes along, not sure about Ryzen either at this point. I don’t game as much nowdays so my CPU is fine overclocked at 4.2Ghz.
That’s common sense.
1-2% faster in games…
wow Intel you’re f**king pathetic
that being said, the price remains the same, though technology continues to stagnate…
How is a 2% yearly upgrade stagnation? It took AMD damn near a decade to update their processors and your calling Intel pathetic, smh. Besides Qualcomm no one else is pushing cpu tech as fast as Intel.
I7 4790 ftw 😀 maybe in 2019 i am gonna do an upgrade..
Same here.. Money goes to uprading the GPU instead ;D
i7-8700K – stock temps 76*C …
Now I wonder what Intel response will be to high stock temps (for overclocking they said … to not overclock K models 😀 ).
It’s not going to be much faster in software that doesn’t take advantage of more cores is it? I’m not exactly blown away by how unexpected the results are. This was always how it was going to be.
The entire point of the 8700K is the class leading gaming performance of 7700K with two more cores bolted on.
If you do not require 7700K gaming performance with two more cores bolted on then don’t buy it! It’s not like AMD can sell you anything as fast in games is it?