Intel Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K Sample Tested

#5364709

blacknova

2016-11-30 14:23

It seem like Intel just want to push desktop users away.

#5364711

Koniakki

2016-11-30 14:25

This thing should be priced at best at a small premium over current 6700K prices and drop Skylake ones a tiny bit. Oh, wait...

#5364712

vbetts

Moderator

2016-11-30 14:28

That small increase though. If I had a mobo, my 5820k would be going strong still.

#5364713

xrodney

2016-11-30 14:30

If you translate the coresponding paragraph from the PCgameshardware article, it reads like this (google translation for the sake of objectiveness): http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgameshardware.de%2FCore-i7-7700K-CPU-264844%2FNews%2FBenchmarks-mit-4-5-und-5-GHz-aufgetaucht-1214658%2F&hl=de&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8 They are saying that actually, with little voltage you can get far, BUT the CPU reaches about 100°C. This are temperatures I haven't seen mentioned in the past 10 years... not sure even proper watercooling could cope with 100°C that easy. A bit scary tbh 😀

Exactly, 100°C on CPU is way too much, and to be able hit 4.9GHz....Snady was able to do same 6 years ago and at much lower tems as well. Given that even OCed Skylake runs on lower temps I would say Kabylake is big fail for intel, at least for now.

#5364717

chispy

2016-11-30 14:40

I'm not impress 😏it's just more of the same with a higher price , meh ...

#5364719

PrMinisterGR

2016-11-30 14:42

meh The price hike is also crazy.

#5364739

schmidtbag

2016-11-30 15:09

Actually if you look again at the numbers, they show the 7700K is slower than the previous 6700K clock for clock! They score almost identically in every test but the 7700k is clocked higher.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this. I thought the CPU benchmarks from Haswell to Skylake were boring, but Kaby Lake is somehow even less interesting.

#5364759

Domingo

2016-11-30 15:45

...but it supports 4K Netflix DRM! :P

#5364770

Loophole35

2016-11-30 16:27

Bring on Zen.

#5364772

rl66

2016-11-30 16:33

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

Stop bashing with that, at launch the i7 4790K were 100 Euro higher than predecessor, and the following in 1151 was 100Euro than it... and after a while it return to normal (and it was like that already in the 90' ) early adopter are always milked 🙂

#5364774

aka2k

2016-11-30 16:39

Skylake and Kaby Lake killer has been out since 2015 and it's called i7 5775c. That's the one if you want to have a nice performance boost over the older i5s & i7s.

#5364825

PrMinisterGR

2016-11-30 19:33

Skylake and Kaby Lake killer has been out since 2015 and it's called i7 5775c. That's the one if you want to have a nice performance boost over the older i5s & i7s.

It's this CPU that makes me very curious about the Zen APU performance. It seems like they will include at least 1GB of HBM.

#5364831

robintson

2016-11-30 19:57

Just refreshing the same cpu's with new numbers, that's how it looks like, but nothing to worry too much. The sleeping giant called Intel will wake up from the sleep only when AMD Zen will come out. Will happen soon...

#5364835

A49ER08

2016-11-30 20:11

man this is depressing lol just a slight increase but premium price, and... of course.. runs much hotter than SkyLake damn you Intel!!! I'm hoping Cannonlake is going to be legit, I seriously doubt it tho

#5364840

Crazy Serb

2016-11-30 20:27

Exactly, 100°C on CPU is way too much, and to be able hit 4.9GHz....Snady was able to do same 6 years ago and at much lower tems as well. Given that even OCed Skylake runs on lower temps I would say Kabylake is big fail for intel, at least for now.

But, temps will be under 80 once you change intel's insanely high quality next-gen "TRM" (thermal resist material?!) under IHS 🙂 If AMD use soldering in zen, then it seems I will keep using something with amd sticker after all. Luckily, AMD kinda needs to release only 1 working/stable driver for chipset, so it wont slap CPU users that much like their faulty GPU drivers.

#5364851

Elder III

2016-11-30 20:59

That heat is rather offputting, provided that those temperatures are accurate and not just a faulty chip. 😏It looks like Zen is going to be an attractive alternative for a fair number of folks.... at least at this point.

#5364906

-Tj-

2016-11-30 23:53

Stop bashing with that, at launch the i7 4790K were 100 Euro higher than predecessor, and the following in 1151 was 100Euro than it... and after a while it return to normal (and it was like that already in the 90' ) early adopter are always milked 🙂

I was a early 4770K adopter too, bought it by rls and payed 295€.. 3-4months later it was already 320-330€.. lol now after 3.5yrs still ~ 330€ 😀

#5364931

GhostXL

2016-12-01 01:36

Well I'm pretty sure most of us realized by now that this chip really only brings a new MB platform with mostly enhancements for SSD's, and a few other motherboard related features. I wasn't expecting anything dramatic from the specs. For those that do not OC, sure maybe, but I'm good for a while it looks like.

#5365105

Amx85

2016-12-01 14:07

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

EVEN LOWER PERFORMANCE PER CLOCK IN SOME TEST lol

#5365221

aka2k

2016-12-01 20:18

It's this CPU that makes me very curious about the Zen APU performance. It seems like they will include at least 1GB of HBM.

The 128mb L4 do a world of difference for the i7 5775c. 1GB HBM might either be a quantum leap or just hit the ugly diminished returns roof. Either way, should be interesting.