A new set of leaks shows that the fastest Intel Kaby Lake Core i5 chip will bring the expected 10 percent performance increase compared to the same class CPU based Skylake architecture.

While Intel's desktop Kaby Lake CPUs won't launch before January next year, we already had a chance to see some of the overclocking details and now we have full benchmark results of the Core i5-7600K leaked by Chinese sources.

Although this is an engineering sample, these give us a decent picture on what to expect when these chips launch early next year. In case you missed it, the Core i5-7600K is the fastest Core i5 in the Kaby Lake lineup and this is a quad-core SKU without Intel Hyper-Threading support. Working at 3.8GHz base and 4.2GHz Turbo clocks, it packs 6MB of L3 cache, has a 91W TDP and should launch at somewhere around US $250, making it quite an interesting buy for most users not willing to go for the flagship Core i7-7700K.

According to the benchmark resuls and when compared to the Intel Core i5-6600K Skylake SKU, the new Kaby Lake chip is around 6 percent faster in single-thread and around 9 percent faster in multi-thread applications.

When it comes to gaming, the difference between CPU is even smaller but that can be attributed to the actual lower clock of the Kaby Lake CPU.

Those coming from Skylake probably won't be interested in the Intel Kaby Lake architecture but those with older generation CPUs should certainly notice a significant gain.









Source: Wccftech.com.