Gaming Operation

Time for a few quick gaming benchmarks before we await at power consumption and temperatures. Hither we tested Battleground 1 using the DX12 API with the ultra quality preset enabled. All the games take been tested using the GTX 1080 Ti and Vega 64 GPUs.

Even with a GTX 1080 Ti at 1080p, we are GPU express in Battleground 1 using the ultra quality settings. For that reason the 8700K is limited to the aforementioned 157 fps as the 7700K. The Ryzen CPUs hateful while look quite slow despite delivering well over 100 fps at all times. There can be an issue with the Ryzen CPUs when using an Nvidia GPU in DirectX 12 titles then let's cheque out the Vega 64 results.

Although we are even more than GPU jump with the slower Vega 64 GPU what's cardinal to notation here is that while the 8700K and 7700K frame rates are slightly reduced the Ryzen CPUs see a rather meaning boost in frame rate. They are of form notwithstanding slower than the Intel CPUs but the margin is reduced. We'll take a look at this again in a moment while trying to remove the GPU bottleneck.

Side by side up we take Ashes of the Singularity and here the Core i7-8700K really shows that it can do equally it roughly matches the Core i7-7820X and Threadripper 1920X in this core heavy game. The average frame rate was boosted by 17% over the 7700K and 25% over the Ryzen 7 1700.

Swapping out the GTX 1080 Ti for Vega 64 actually helps put the 8700K ahead of the Threadripper CPU though with that exception the rest of the margins remain much the aforementioned.

Moving on, the Civilization VI nosotros see that the Core i7-8700K is roughly on par with the 7700K as well equally AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X and this is with the GTX 1080 Ti, and then some pretty competitive looking results here.

Delight note in our Intel Core i9-7980XE & 7960X review the Ryzen 7 frame rates were higher than what's shown here and I wasn't able to determine if this was a fault on my behalf or if it's down to a game patch or driver update. Previously, the 1800X was pushing 112 fps on average with Vega 64 and now we're downwardly to 100 fps.

I'chiliad constantly re-testing and sometimes we do find a change like this with some games. Mafia III for example was dropped from testing as the performance often changed quite dramatically with each update. Anyway we are all the same seeing vastly superior performance on the AMD Ryzen seven CPUs with Vega 64, it's but not as extreme as previously shown.

Whereas the 8700K was 4% faster with Vega 64 compared to the GTX 1080 Ti, the 1800X is most xx% faster, and so Civilisation even so provides some very interesting results when comparing the GeForce and Radeon GPUs using the DX12 API.

The last game we're going to look at is F1 2022 and start upwardly we take the GTX 1080 Ti results. Here the 8700K was actually slower than the 7700K which is a fleck odd, seems this championship can become a bit confused when there are more than than four cores on offer. The 7700K is conspicuously faster than the 7600K though, equally is the Ryzen 5 1600 over the 1500X.

Even with Vega 64 nosotros observe much the same betwixt the 7700K and 8700K though there is a scrap of reshuffling in the midfield and the Skylake-10 parts seem to lose out. Overall though, the 8700K was slightly slower than the 7700K in this title.

Okay then before nosotros wrap the gaming up let's just quickly retest Battleground i at the ultra low 720p resolution to try and remove the GPU bottleneck while yet using ultra quality settings. Previously the 8700K was only able to match the 7700K and wasn't much faster than the 7600K.

Notwithstanding by removing the GPU clogging we see another issue: Battleground 1'south 200 fps hard cap. The 8700K was able to proceed the GTX 1080 Ti at 200 fps for the bulk of our test and this means it could be much faster than the 10% margin we come across here over the 7700K. It's now 27% faster than the 7600K and 55% faster than the Ryen vii 1800X.

Although the Ryzen 7 1800X looked a little sad with the GTX 1080 Ti, it'due south a different story with the Vega 64 graphics carte. Here the R7 1800X is only twenty% slower than the 8700K and while that's still a fairly large margin it's much better than what we saw with the GTX 1080 Ti. The 7700K is also quite a bit faster with the Radeon graphics carte as well, but unfortunately the 8700K is over again limited by the game'southward artificial frame cap. Anyway, one thing is for sure: the Core i7-8700K is an incredibly powerful gaming CPU.