Intel Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K Sample Tested

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/30/2016 11:09 AM | source: | 58 comment(s)

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
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
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.

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Laci
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#5364611 Posted on: 11/30/2016 11:22 AM

Not even 5% performance increase?? Is this legit?

lisac85
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#5364619 Posted on: 11/30/2016 11:45 AM

Close to no difference...

Aniboom
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#5364621 Posted on: 11/30/2016 11:48 AM

Holy guacamole, dat performance increase! Looks like I won't upgrade my CPU anytime soon.

Laci
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#5364622 Posted on: 11/30/2016 11:50 AM

Close to no difference...

There is one - the price of the new units will be 100-150 EUR higher than the predecessors :banana:

BlueRay
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#5364624 Posted on: 11/30/2016 11:51 AM

So Intel now releases CPUs with no difference at all to the previous gen. What's next? A cpu which has lower performance from the previous gen?

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