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Intel Core i7-8700K and i5-8400 SANDRA Benchmarks Surface

But don't forget that the turbo boost of intel is more aggressive than the turbo of Ryzen. The 8700k can reach 4.30 GHz on all core, and 4.60 Ghz on one core. So the 3.7Ghz is misleading. The current Ryzen can't reach clock as high, and geekbench isn't the best tool to measure real world performance. The results showed in the 2 link that I've showed don't even make sense there is no way for a ryzen 5 to beat a ryzen 7 with higher clock in Mt. I'd rather wait for real world bench.

All ryzens are capped at 4.0 at most (the usual OC is about 3.8/3.9) and the voltage needs to be insane, unless it's something like 1800x which is a heavily binned chip (still 4.1 is an absolute limit for it, if you're super lucky and have samsung b-die ram). 8700k base is 3.7, with 4.3 turbo on all 6 cores, 4.4 on 4 cores, 4.7 on one. I'm sure it can OC to 5.1+ on all 6 cores with water and delid. Just by looking at 3.7 base core results, it annihilates 4.0Ghz 1700x in both ST and MT. There is no second opinion on it. Ryzen 7 line up will be obsolete as of October 2017.
 
You read my mind, this site is losing it's charm. :mad:

Modders??? o_O

It's not as much the site, it's the (much needed) influx of new posters, and on the whole it's the ... whole world. Fragmentation increases and all communication is filtered. It's the reason we drink.
 
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The AMDones are afraid to loose their safe zone? Don't be frightened children, we will not hurt you, we're honorable people... well, most of us anyway.
 
There are no 1800x in his links. Wake up.
1700X then. Better? Doesn't change my point that the 8 core had the slowest RAM possible. :) Actually makes my point even stronger since mine had a smaller OC.
 
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The AMDones are afraid to loose their safe zone? Don't be frightened children, we will not hurt you, we're honorable people... well, most of us anyway.

Yeah, that's it. Here's a buck. It's imaginary, so spend it wisely. That means it'll last forever though.
 
IPC on Intel is better than AMD, you can't deny that. Combine that with a faster boost clock and if you have good cooling it should be able to stay there, and you have better single threaded performance and that's what really counts.

I couldn't give a crap about the multithreaded numbers, they don't mean anything when most programs are still single threaded including games.

So yeah, when compared to Ryzen Intel is still the undisputed king of performance. Period.
 
6 good cores are always going to beat 8 inferior cores in real workloads, even non-synthetic multithreaded workloads. Intel got much higher IPC and higher clocks. You'll have to do a lot of rendering in Blender for R7 1800X to be really beneficial.
 
6 good cores are always going to beat 8 inferior cores in real workloads, even non-synthetic multithreaded workloads. Intel got much higher IPC and higher clocks. You'll have to do a lot of rendering in Blender for R7 1800X to be really beneficial.

^ this.
 
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The AMDones are afraid to loose their safe zone? Don't be frightened children, we will not hurt you, we're honorable people... well, most of us anyway.

Maybe you should change for screen name to Intelfanboy as it suits you.
 
Looking good, I mainly want to know & probably everyone else is IPC gains if there is any? :(

It's still skylake. Any IPC gain, or losses, will depend on the cache, RAM speed, and frequency.

6 good cores are always going to beat 8 inferior cores in real workloads, even non-synthetic multithreaded workloads. Intel got much higher IPC and higher clocks. You'll have to do a lot of rendering in Blender for R7 1800X to be really beneficial.

Last I checked, Ryzen outperforms Intel in most non-gaming workloads. "Intel got much higher IPC" is blatantly false. Intel has higher clocks, not higher IPC.
 
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most non-gaming workloads
Listen here man, we want to game. You don't need multiple cores to be playing with Excel spreadsheets all the live long day. However you do need high clock speeds for gaming and that's where Intel is the undisputed king of performance. But of course, the AMD fanboy community just can't accept that.
 
Intel having the superior CPU makes some AMD fans' blood boil lol
 
Listen here man, we want to game. You don't need multiple cores to be playing with Excel spreadsheets all the live long day. However you do need high clock speeds for gaming and that's where Intel is the undisputed king of performance. But of course, the AMD fanboy community just can't accept that.

Accept what? That Intel has had better performance for the last 10 years until Ryzen. I would know, I had a 2500k, 3570k, and 5820k. You can shove the "fanboy" comment, I've well versed in using either platforms. I switch to whatever product gives me the most performance for my money. Right now, why in the world would I touch Intel when they can't come anywhere close to the price / performance of my $279 Ryzen 1700? Are you going to recommend I buy a 7700k for the 1% extra FPS? That's great, unless you consider that games coming out are using more cores or that my encoding performance would be cut in half. It's also not fun upgrading my motherboard every 8 months.

FYI, Intel themselves have already proven that clockspeed isn't the only thing that matters. You can go out and buy a i7-5775c clocked at 3.7 GHz and it will outperform the 7700k in games with the EDRAM enabled. In fact, it will outperform the 7700k if you overclock the EDRAM.

Now it's great that your world revolves around gaming but some of us need to use computers for big boy work.
 
FYI, Intel themselves have already proven that clockspeed isn't the only thing that matters. You can go out and buy a i7-5775c clocked at 3.7 GHz and it will outperform the 7700k in games with the EDRAM enabled. In fact, it will outperform the 7700k if you overclock the EDRAM.
Yeah 5775C is true king in gaming. I'm really tempted to see direct comparisons of the two, but from what I see 8700K is just 6 core Skylake so I'm not seeing it to complete with Broadwell in not heavy thread workloads. It's shame that 5775C is rare overall and not many are making comparisons.
 
for the 1% extra FPS?
It's not just a 1% FPS difference man, I've watched enough benchmark videos and read enough data on the subject that quite often there's a much larger FPS gap than that; sometimes by as much as 15 to 20 FPS difference. That's a huge difference in performance in games.

unless you consider that games coming out are using more cores
Oh sure, when's that going to happen? Wake me up when that happens because I don't see that coming any time soon. Most users still have only a quad-core CPU in their systems and will for a long time to come. There's no way in hell that game developers are going to alienate an entire segment of the market just because some people have more cores in their systems than four. No, they're going to program to the least common denominator so that a majority of gamers will be able to play them without having to go out and build an entirely new system just to play the game. Sure, they might need a new GPU but that's to be expected.

my encoding performance would be cut in half.
That's nowhere close to being the truth and you know it, that's pulling numbers out of thin air and you know it.

It's also not fun upgrading my motherboard every 8 months.
Most people keep their machines for more than eight months, they build for the long term like 4 to 5 years. Which if you look at Intel vs AMD's IPC numbers it shows that Intel is still going to last you longer than an AMD chip regardless how many cores your AMD chip has because when it comes down to it single core performance is and will be king for years to come which is where Intel is king.

Not only that but there's still RAM issues on the Ryzen platform months after it was released. And then let's not forget that AMD Ryzen's clock speed limit appears to be a hard 4.0 GHz wall with a majority of people unable to even crack past 3.8 GHz due to shit silicon (except for the Ryzen 7 1800X which is already heavily binned). They keep ramming their heads into it and not making a dent other than in their own heads. Meanwhile Intel chips are clocking past that. The Core i7 8700K has a boost clock of 4.3 GHz and if you have good cooling like a good water cooling system that CPU is bound to stay at 4.3 GHz the whole damn time and when you combine that with Intel's superior IPC numbers that means Intel is going to positively wipe the damn floor with AMD's Ryzen.

Sorry you AMD fanboy, that's just the way it is; Intel is the undisputed king of CPU performance. AMD is once again trotting out the tired "moar cores!" because that's all they can deliver.
 
Most people keep their machines for more than eight months, they build for the long term like 4 to 5 years. Which if you look at Intel vs AMD's IPC numbers it shows that Intel is still going to last you longer than an AMD chip regardless how many cores your AMD chip has because when it comes down to it single core performance is and will be king for years to come which is where Intel is king.

Not only that but there's still RAM issues on the Ryzen platform months after it was released. And then let's not forget that AMD Ryzen's clock speed limit appears to be a hard 4.0 GHz wall with a majority of people unable to even crack past 3.8 GHz due to shit silicon (except for the Ryzen 7 1800X which is already heavily binned). They keep ramming their heads into it and not making a dent other than in their own heads. Meanwhile Intel chips are clocking past that. The Core i7 8700K has a boost clock of 4.3 GHz and if you have good cooling like a good water cooling system that CPU is bound to stay at 4.3 GHz the whole damn time and when you combine that with Intel's superior IPC numbers that means Intel is going to positively wipe the damn floor with AMD's Ryzen.

Sorry you AMD fanboy, that's just the way it is; Intel is the undisputed king of CPU performance. AMD is once again trotting out the tired "moar cores!" because that's all they can deliver.

Apparently he doesn't want to wait few years so I'm guessing he's not "Most people" you mentioned. Stop telling people what they should do or follow the "MOST PEOPLE" behavior towards PC's.

I can be the "most people" since I have managed to change my computer to Ivy long time ago. Believe me if I didn't have to swap my entire rig I'd go with a better CPU. So Most people may be in the same situation as I am. Don't wanna change my entire rig for minimal gains. But if it was only CPU I'd go with the new gen for sure. I understand what evernessince's saying and I agree.
So Ryzen is a better choice from variety of reasons not just gaming.
 
Do yourselves a favour and get as 5820K instead. Overclockable beasts, soldered, and has quad channel memory, prices should have come down by now.
 
Do yourselves a favour and get as 5820K instead. Overclockable beasts, soldered, and has quad channel memory, prices should have come down by now.

i wish i had jumped on that boat when they were ÂŁ265 for that cpu new :|

funny how people moan about amd fanbois, but it is the intel trenches which stink the worst :(
 
Don't wanna change my entire rig for minimal gains.
So if there are minimal gains, don't buy a new system every year; it's really that simple people! Wait a couple of years between generations and suddenly there's a reason to upgrade. I've had my Core i5-3570K for nearly five years already, now is about time to do an upgrade since the generational gains are decent enough to put the money into it.
 
So if there are minimal gains, don't buy a new system every year; it's really that simple people! Wait a couple of years between generations and suddenly there's a reason to upgrade. I've had my Core i5-3570K for nearly five years already, now is about time to do an upgrade since the generational gains are decent enough to put the money into it.
I would like to have an option for upgrades without changing entire system. What's wrong with that? I disagree with Intel with what they are doing with the platforms swap every gen. It's different to choose not to upgrade or be forced not to upgrade cause of incompatibilities with newer devices.
 
I would like to have an option for upgrades without changing entire system. What's wrong with that? I disagree with Intel with what they are doing with the platforms swap every gen. It's different to choose not to upgrade or be forced not to upgrade cause of incompatibilities with newer devices.

Well enjoy your AM4 motherboard for the next 8+ years, stuck on DDR4 and PCIE 3.0. You can only drag out a chipset/platform so many years before it becomes outdated.

Newer chipset = new features.
 
If you do an upgrade every five years then I expect to have to get a new motherboard. That's why I said that your shouldn't do upgrades for the sake of upgrading, put some time in between them.
 
It's not just a 1% FPS difference man, I've watched enough benchmark videos and read enough data on the subject that quite often there's a much larger FPS gap than that; sometimes by as much as 15 to 20 FPS difference. That's a huge difference in performance in games.


Oh sure, when's that going to happen? Wake me up when that happens because I don't see that coming any time soon. Most users still have only a quad-core CPU in their systems and will for a long time to come. There's no way in hell that game developers are going to alienate an entire segment of the market just because some people have more cores in their systems than four. No, they're going to program to the least common denominator so that a majority of gamers will be able to play them without having to go out and build an entirely new system just to play the game. Sure, they might need a new GPU but that's to be expected.


That's nowhere close to being the truth and you know it, that's pulling numbers out of thin air and you know it.


Most people keep their machines for more than eight months, they build for the long term like 4 to 5 years. Which if you look at Intel vs AMD's IPC numbers it shows that Intel is still going to last you longer than an AMD chip regardless how many cores your AMD chip has because when it comes down to it single core performance is and will be king for years to come which is where Intel is king.

Not only that but there's still RAM issues on the Ryzen platform months after it was released. And then let's not forget that AMD Ryzen's clock speed limit appears to be a hard 4.0 GHz wall with a majority of people unable to even crack past 3.8 GHz due to shit silicon (except for the Ryzen 7 1800X which is already heavily binned). They keep ramming their heads into it and not making a dent other than in their own heads. Meanwhile Intel chips are clocking past that. The Core i7 8700K has a boost clock of 4.3 GHz and if you have good cooling like a good water cooling system that CPU is bound to stay at 4.3 GHz the whole damn time and when you combine that with Intel's superior IPC numbers that means Intel is going to positively wipe the damn floor with AMD's Ryzen.

Sorry you AMD fanboy, that's just the way it is; Intel is the undisputed king of CPU performance. AMD is once again trotting out the tired "moar cores!" because that's all they can deliver.


"Oh sure, when's that going to happen?"

It's happening now... or have you ignored TechSpot and other outlets CPU scaling benchmarks.

"It's not just a 1% FPS difference man, I've watched enough benchmark videos and read enough data on the subject that quite often there's a much larger FPS gap than that; sometimes by as much as 15 to 20 FPS difference. That's a huge difference in performance in games."

You are quoting best case scenario in a benchmark situation at 720p. Congrats, you pulled up data with context that is irrelevant. I don't see that as a viable way to use your $300+ CPU.

"That's nowhere close to being the truth and you know it, that's pulling numbers out of thin air and you know it."

lol, no http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170...review-a-deep-dive-on-1800x-1700x-and-1700/20

It should seem pretty obvious that an easily threaded task like encoding is nearly doubled with double the cores. Derp. By the way, I have my Ryzen OC'd to 4.0 GHz, so it actually gets better encoding performance then an 1800X.

"Most people keep their machines for more than eight months, they build for the long term like 4 to 5 years. Which if you look at Intel vs AMD's IPC numbers it shows that Intel is still going to last you longer than an AMD chip regardless how many cores your AMD chip has because when it comes down to it single core performance is and will be king for years to come which is where Intel is king."

That's exactly what I was saying. Intel just released a 2nd forced mobo upgrade in a single year. AMD does not require you to upgrade your mobo every year. Like I said before, Intel and AMD's IPC are neck and neck. Show me a reputable source that says otherwise.

"Not only that but there's still RAM issues on the Ryzen platform months after it was released. And then let's not forget that AMD Ryzen's clock speed limit appears to be a hard 4.0 GHz wall with a majority of people unable to even crack past 3.8 GHz due to shit silicon (except for the Ryzen 7 1800X which is already heavily binned). They keep ramming their heads into it and not making a dent other than in their own heads. Meanwhile Intel chips are clocking past that. The Core i7 8700K has a boost clock of 4.3 GHz and if you have good cooling like a good water cooling system that CPU is bound to stay at 4.3 GHz the whole damn time and when you combine that with Intel's superior IPC numbers that means Intel is going to positively wipe the damn floor with AMD's Ryzen."

Lol, I must have missed how my RAM is currently clocked at 3600. Hard clock speed limit of 4.0 GHz? You do realize threadripper is clocked at 4.2 GHz correct? Dam, if only you actually knew anything about what you are talking about...

"Meanwhile Intel chips are clocking past that."

And yet AMD achieves better performance at a lower clock. Oh, did you see those power consumption numbers? I'm sure people love that. Oh, and that lovely thermal paste better the IHS. Good luck cooling that furnace.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1433-intel-core-i9-core-i7-skylake-x/

Yay for throttling with everything but the highest end AIO liquid coolers! Intel is so awesome! For god's sake, just admit when Intel fucks up. At least I have the ball to admit AMD's obvious fuck ups.

"Sorry you AMD fanboy, that's just the way it is; Intel is the undisputed king of CPU performance. AMD is once again trotting out the tired "moar cores!" because that's all they can deliver."

Like I said before, I don't care how is providing the performance. You can keep sucking that Intel cock tho, your obviously attached.
 
Well enjoy your AM4 motherboard for the next 8+ years, stuck on DDR4 and PCIE 3.0. You can only drag out a chipset/platform so many years before it becomes outdated.

Newer chipset = new features.

AMD already has a new platform planned for Ryzen 2 FYI in 3 years so yeah...

No one said they wouldn't release revisions in between either nor that vendors couldn't add features.

These trolls, you don't even do a cursory check on google to make sure your rhetoric is even remotely correct.
 
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