I7 8700k Coffee Lake Review

By paul alcorn igor wallossek 05 october 2017.

I7 8700k coffee lake review.

The coffee lake processors follow this trend the core i7 8700k has a tdp of 95w but consumes 86 2w at full load of which the cores account for 78 6w. Unlike the high end desktop skylake x parts on the lga 2066 platform the new coffee lake cpus still use the ring bus and not the mesh inter connect method of the higher core count parts. Intel core i7 8700k review. It has a base clock of 3 7ghz and can top out at 4 7ghz.

So how does it compare. Both coffee lake processors reviewed by us the i7 8700k and the i5 8400 feature a total of six physical cores but differ in the number of simultaneous threads cache size clock speed and. Coffee lake beats ryzen but proves games don t care for cores the top coffee lake cpu right now and the first intel response to amd s ryzen. The core i7 8700k is a good example of how adding cores works.

We tested and benchmarked the core i7 8700k on a z370 board supplied by asus the maximus 10 hero using the z370 chipset required for eighth gen coffee lake processors. The 8700k s coffee lake design utilizes a 14nm process which intel claims offers 26 more performance and 52 less leakage power than first generation 14nm manufacturing. Under test in this first impressions review is the i7 8700k which sits at the top of the tree. There are six cores each with 2mb of cache.

The intel core i7 8700k is easily the best processor in the coffee lake lineup with 6 cores 12 threads and higher core clocks than any of the amd ryzen chips.