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Intel Core i7-7700K vs Core i7-6700K Benchmarks on Z270 Platform

IvanDobskey said:
Not surprised at all really.

It's been the same old story with every generation for years now.

Hence I'm still sat on a 2500k that I've had over five years.

What disturbs me about kaby lake, is the amount of heat it seems to be kicking out. Surely it's supposed to be more efficient??
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it all comes down to the crappy TIM imo
 
Intel have just basically improved the manufacturing of 6700k to get slightly better clock speed bump with a slightly improved IGP. This is all it is. So if you wasnt going to jump on the 6700k don't bother with 7700k. But if you was thinking about it atleast youll have more chance of finding a better overclocker.
 
Kind of glad I didn't give it another 2-3 months or so before building my new rig in order to wait it out for Kaby Lake :)

Liam.
 
Looks like it's just a refinement on the process and all the improvements on the media side of things, so not really any improvements to the CPU cores apart from the little speed bump. Now my expectations for Cannonlake is even lower :p.

I suppose that gives AMD a chance to play a bit of catch up...
 
I keep thinking about upgrading my i5-2500k, but it runs everything ok at the moment, the offer on the i7-6700k bundle was a very good price, but the 1151 motherboards must be getting a bit dated now and waiting for a newer one must be better, I would imagine they have faster circuitry along with extra lanes on the processor
 
I think you are looking at another couple of years before we see a new mainstream intel socket. Certainly over a year away anyway. Sometime in 2018 i think.
 
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My thoughts exactly. I have been looking to upgrade my CPU as Squad is CPU heavy and not fully optimized but now I'm not sure. Looks like folks are suggesting the 6600k instead?
 
your not going to gain a lot over what youve got, unless you go 6-8 core

maybe we have reached a limit on physical switching inside chips, much like valves on a engine? and they presumeably cant reduce the pipeline or improve IDC someway, so we are stuck at this per core speed?
 
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