While we already knew that Intel's upcoming 7th generation Core Kaby Lake desktop CPUs will bring significant performance and power efficiency improvements, thanks to the improved 14nm+ FinFET manufacturing process, we now have yet another benchmark of the flagship Core i7-7700K CPU which shows that the single-threaded performance is significantly higher.


Spotted running on Gigabyte's, yet to be announced, Z270 motherboard, the flagship Core i7-7700K is a quad-core part with enabled Intel Hyper Threading, has 8MB of L3 cache, 95W TDP and works at 4.2GHz base clock.

The CPU was spotted running a Geekbench general purpose benchmark where it managed to get 6131 score in single-threaded and 20243 in multi-threaded performance.

We decided to test our Skylake Core i7-6700K in the same benchmark and ended up with a single-threaded score of 5436, which is still lower than the Core i7-7700K score but higher than some other scores around, most likely due to a higher clocked memory.

Of course, Kaby Lake will work on a higher clock but at least some of the performance gain comes from the improvements enabled by the new architecture.

In multi-threaded performance, the Core i7-7700K scores 20243, which is also quite higher than Core i7-6700K, which gets about 17866, or about 10 percent.

Of course, we will need to wait for the official launch and other benchmarks but for now, it looks like Kaby Lake will bring significant improvements making it a viable upgrade from previous Skylake architecture.






Source: via Wccftech.com.