I had to turn my NZXT Kraken to Performance mode to bring temperatures below 92☌, and it was left hovering at around 85☌ under load. However, only consider this overclock if you have a decent liquid cooler. This is quite a stable overclock I didn’t encounter any blue-screens-of-death while using it. The Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard has an excellent automatic overclocking feature that happily overclocks the i7-8700K up to 5.1GHz, ramping up the core voltage to 1.4V. The default 4.7GHz Turbo Boost clock speed barely even scratches the surface of what this chip is capable of, and it’s here where AMD’s Ryzen 7 processors should be very worried indeed.įirst, the overclocking numbers. On the i7-8700K, it unlocks an enormous amount of performance.
Intel Core i7-8700K – Overclocking and heat While I didn’t have access to a Ryor 1700X to test in games, given that even the most powerful Ryzen 7 couldn’t keep up with the 8700K it’s reasonable to say the other chips will be even further behind, albeit costing a fair amount less. Finally, in benchmarkers’ favourite Ashes of the Singularity, Ryzen was still a long way behind. But in a more realistic scenario, running the game at maximum settings at 1440p resolution, the performance difference was very minor at just 3fps. In Battlefield 1 with graphics turned down in order to make the processor the performance bottleneck, the 8700K drew ahead again. In Civ VI, which appreciates multiple cores but seems to care more about clock speed, the 8700K could process an AI turn three seconds faster than the 1800X. In Dota 2, an eSports title most sensitive to clock speeds, the 8700K was a long way ahead. In every test I ran, the 8700K beat the 1800X. The graph below summarises all of the gaming benchmarks, which were taken on both chips running at stock speeds. I’ve now re-run a set of gaming benchmarks on the Ryzen 7 1800X and despite the improvements, it’s still just trailing behind the Core i7-8700K.
STOCKFISH CHESS BENCHMARK RYZEN 1800X 7700K INTEL FOR WINDOWS 10
We all know more about what makes Ryzen tick, and multiple patches have been released for games, the Ryzen chipset and even for Windows 10 to get things working properly. This was because Ryzen has moved on a fair amount since Trusted’s original review that was written in March. In my initial review, posted on the day of the 8700K’s launch, I didn’t make any comparisons between Intel and Ryzen for gaming. When it comes to multi-core, things are even closer – with the 1800X ahead of the pack when all the chips are running at their default clock speeds. I’ve dropped the i7-7700K out of the equation for now since it’s already immediately clear that the i7-8700K is the new performance champion – but let’s keep Trusted Reviews’ older Ryzen 7 results in the graphs for comparison’s sake.Īgain, in the single-core test, the i7-8700K trounces the more sedate clock speeds of the Ryzen 7 1800X and Ryzen 7 1700. Let’s look at POVray now, another tough rendering benchmark that stretches these CPUs to their limits. That’s a massive result, especially since I haven’t even touched on overclocking yet in a cheap bid to build the tension in this review. It doesn’t come close to beating the 8-core Ryzen 7 1800X, and it’s pretty much on a par with the Ryzen 7 1700. Intel handily beats all of its predecessors here, going well beyond 1000 points for the first time. As expected, the higher clock speeds (4.7GHz vs 4GHz) and generally better single-core architecture sees the i7-8700K take a big lead over the Ryzen 7 1800X.īut it’s the multi-core test we’re all really interested in, right? It’s here where those extra two cores show their power – and it’s quite a result. It does at least score a significant 43 points more than the three-year-old Core i7-4790K. This points to the fact that the individual cores in the i7-8700K aren’t that different to its predecessor. We’ve tested every recent processor in this benchmark, making it a useful initial comparison.įirst, in the single-core test, you can see that there hasn’t been much improvement over the i7-7700K. This rendering benchmark pushes every CPU core to its limit.