No embargo is sacred, that's what Toms Hardware must have figured as the posted benchmarks on an Intel Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K Sample.
The chip used is not an engineering sample, so they will not confirm that it is a retail part (uh-huh). They used the processor on an Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming board. The CPU clocks in at a 4.20GHz core frequency with 4.50GHz max turbo boost with a TDP of 95W. That's 100 More then a i7-6700K's 91W.
anted to test!
Kaby Lake |
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Model | Cores/Threads | Cache | Baseline Frequency | Max Turbo Boost | TDP | IGP |
Core i7-7700K |
4/8 |
8MB |
4.20 GHz |
4.50 GHz |
95W |
630 |
Core i5-7600K |
4/4 |
6MB |
3.80 GHz |
4.00 GHz |
95W |
630 |
Core i7-7700 |
4/8 |
8MB |
3.60 GHz |
4.20 GHz* |
65W |
630* |
Core i5-7600 |
4/4 |
6MB |
3.50 GHz |
4.00 GHz* |
65W |
630* |
Core i5-7500 |
4/4 |
6MB |
3.40 GHz |
3.80 GHz* |
65W |
630* |
Skylake |
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Core i7-6700K |
4/8 |
8MB |
4.00 GHz |
4.20 GHz |
91W |
530 |
Core i5-6600K |
4/4 |
6MB |
3.50 GHz |
3.90 GHz |
91W |
530 |
Core i7-6700 |
4/8 |
8MB |
3.40 GHz |
4.00 GHz |
65W |
530 |
Core i5-6600 |
4/4 |
6MB |
3.30 GHz |
3.90 GHz |
65W |
530 |
Core i5-6500 |
4/4 |
6MB |
3.20 GHz |
3.60 GHz |
65W |
530 |
Judging from the results the processor draws a bit more power opposed to the 6700K. The benchmark results are close to each other, the increased turbo bin frequencies obviously does the job. Overclocking, the 7700K reached a 4.8GHz overclock at 1.3v, again very similar to all other Intel processors in this category.