Synthetics and Scientific
SiSoft Sandra 2016
Again, the 8700K and even the 8400 are showing some impressive results. In the Sandra MT testing, the 8700K results in a score that is 50% faster than the 7700K (which makes sense, it has 50% more cores and threads). Even the Core i5-8400 results in a higher score by 5% as a result of having 6 TRUE cores as opposed to four cores with HyperThreading. The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X and 1700X still score higher than the new 8700K, however.
Geekbench 4.0.4
From a single threaded view, there is no faster stock CPU on the market than the 8700K, jumping past the 7700K by 6% or so. Here, Intel now holds a lead of 35% over the Ryzen 7 1800X. For the multi-threaded portion of Geekbench, the 8700K is 24% faster than the 7700K and just edges past the Ryzen 7 1800X, despite it have more cores and threads available to it.
Euler 3D
Euler continues to be an interesting test, at least for comparing Intel to Intel performance. Here, the 8700K is 14% ahead of the 7700K in the single threaded result, and peaks at 17% at the higher thread counts.
Intel released Coffee Lake to
Intel released Coffee Lake to steal market share away from AMD. The last thing they wanted to do was sabotage their own product, Kaby Lake, and have customers move from KL to CL.
Intel could have released a version of Coffee Lake that ran on a Z270, lets call it i7-8700d for downgraded.
Just you wouldn’t be able to overclock it and it would need to be paired with a high end motherboard that can provide the CPU with the power it needs, like the Asus Maximus IX Hero.
I think Intel couldn’t be bothered with launching a product with such a complex requirement because thousands of people would end up buying it and finding their shitty Z270 motherboard weren’t able to support CL especially since it would require a BIOS upgrade to make it work.
What I don’t appreciate are the lies and deceit. I think the tech reviewers have done a disservice to consumers by allowing Intel to get away with this.
Intel claimed after much uproar that the 1151 pin configuration was changed but in reality it didn’t change. They simply utilised reserved pins for the extra power draw on Coffee Lake.
They lie, and cheat customers who bought into their hardware and it seems like media/techn reviewers are happy to let em get away it.
no testing against the 7400
no testing against the 7400 either. for a comparison