If true then US pricing should be $399. That's pretty good for 8700k. Actual game benches will be interesting to watch. I also wonder about OC capabilities after 7700k issues.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/european-core-i7-8700k-coffee-lake-prices-spotted-in-germany.html
I seriously doubt that you've got more than +10% of performance from such an upgrade.
If you see his pic, there is turbo 6C and turbo 1C. Based on that, you can conclude that turbo boost depends on how many cores are being utilized at once. Also depends on how hot the CPU currently is and, for mobile, whether it is running on battery.
5820K, 6800K and 7800X already exist, those should be decent indicators on how 8700K would perform.
Not really, 5820K and 6800K had lower clocks and lack the IPC improvements that the Skylake architecture got, while the 7800X has a completely different cache setup and a different type of architecture that is focused on more cores (mesh instead of ring bus, while I don't know much about these, seems like ring bus performs better than mesh with less cores, while mesh performs better with more?).
Thanks for the input too - unless the ~six months is very accurate or even more than reality, I would probably want to upgrade before then. Also, I thought I had more than 2GB in this 680 but just went and checked and yeah it's the 2GB version... depressing. My Steam backlog is ridiculous because I just stick with FF14 these days, wanting to save everything for 'better hardware'of course, not as ridiculous as yours
I expect US prices to be lower, if only because they are without sales tax usually. Generally, I don't expect 8700K to be more expensive than 7800X which is ~$380.
The mesh/ring difference is more complicated than that, and depends on the workload. But for games ring topologies have generally proven better so far.
If someone wants better multi-threading performance while still having decent single-threading performance, Ryzen is the best pick.
I rather wait for proper reviews/benchmarks. Always take leaks with a grain of salt.
Since I guess you missed it:
Is this legit or BS?
If so not good if true.
Guru3d
This was actually at some event where they had benching on display. SO..........
I said that starting with the 4770K, Intel's 4c/8t CPUs do better in multithreading than Ryzen's 4c/8t CPUs, that is, Ryzen 5 1500X and 1400.
7800X mesh is a detriment to games but synthetics/rendering should be fairly similar. Skylake's IPC impovement over Haswell/Broadwell isn't big (~5-7%?).
It has less to do with topology and more with the fact that old ring bus provides lower latencies for a small number of cores - which is what seems to be important for gaming. I'm sure that Intel will improve their mesh interconnect in the future as there aren't a lot of interconnect options once you've gone above 10 cores.
Is this legit or BS?
If so not good if true.
Guru3d
This was actually at some event where they had benching on display. SO..........
Update: Videocardz.com is reporting it too with better pics of actual PC screen showing 8700k in cpu listing.
Looks fine for Cinebench. It's not going to shine there. The cores really help there. There's just way too many CPUs with more than 6c right now.Is this legit or BS?
If so not good if true.
Guru3d
This was actually at some event where they had benching on display. SO..........
Update: Videocardz.com is reporting it too with better pics of actual PC screen showing 8700k in cpu listing.
Someone else in there is saying that the Cinebench numbers are from an unboosted 8700k.
Saw on Anandtech forums that there's another leak from a couple weeks ago that puts the 8700K at 1410 MT score, but we'll still have to wait for proper reviews/benchmarks to see if that's accurate at all.
Broadwell has no architectural change over Haswell iinm, so whatever IPC gain we saw back then could be attributed to the L4 cache.