Gadgetory

the Platinum xdf series of power supplies from enter Mac's featured patented dust free rotation fan technology and a DF switch for users to activate DFR anytime during operation units range up to 1200 watts with an 80 plus platinum rating while maintaining a compact length of just 160 millimeters and new slave cables give your build an extra clean look right out of the box click the link in the description below to learn more what's up guys welcome back to the channel if you're watching this on the day of upload Intel has just launched its 8th gen core CPU family codenamed coffee Lake and its new Z 370 platform with the LGA 1151 socket I've spent the last couple days testing the flagship core i7 8700 K against its predecessor the cable a core i7 7700 K and one of its close competitors the AMD risin 7 1700 to see how the CPU stack up in a gaming environment taking a quick side-by-side look at today's contenders the 8700 case for its two more cores than its older brother and two fewer cores than the rise in 1700 though it does hold the faster turbo frequency of the group while both Intel SKUs are capable of hitting much higher speeds than our AMD parts they're also packin higher tvp's which may require hefty aftermarket coolers especially if you plan to overclock the Wraith spire that's bundled with the relatively low powered rise in 1700 however makes the chip ready to use out of the box at no additional cost to the user we are dealing with a fully unlocked lineup today but we'll be testing the CPUs at their stock speeds with hyper-threading and SMT enabled three separate test beds were assembled for our Z 370 z 270 and X 370 platforms using the hardware and drivers that you see here to keep our test CPU bound I used a stock GT X 1080 Ti founders Edition for all games at 1920 by 1080 that being said I also ran a few non gaming tests in order to better position these CPUs overall so starting with handbrakes the 8700 k takes the lead by encoding a five-minute 4k file in 261 seconds blowing its predecessor out of the water and slightly edging out the rise in 1700 albeit with fewer cores and threats in Cinebench rising takes home the multi threaded victory beating out the 8700 k by 10-percent with a tire core count the 8700 Cade trances the 7700 K by 39 percent this is the biggest single generation leap in multi-threaded performance that we've seen from Intel's mainstream platform in ages yay competition as you might expect the 8700 K wins in single threaded marks here crushing the risin 1700 by a 41% lead and beating the 7700 K by a smaller margin already it seems the 8th gen hexa cores are keeping pace with horizon in both single and multi-threaded performance something KB leg failed to do earlier this year in 3d mark fire strike Xtreme we see the 8700 K pull ahead of risin by 6% with a modest 2.4 percent increase over the 7700 K interestingly enough coffee like yielded the lowest graphic score in the bunch during this test kicking off our gaming benchmarks with ashes of the singularity the 8700 K secures an underwhelming victory against the 7th gen flagship but cuts through the rise in 1700 by 55% in average frame rates and 62% in 1% loves battlefield 1 tells a similar story between our Intel chips though the gained over Aizen is much smaller this time by 6 percent as a CPU intensive game it is nice to see AMD keeping up in this title based on the results in GTA 5 it's pretty clear there aren't huge gains to be had in the gaming department going from KB Lake to copy lake but they do tell us Intel is still the gaming champ by a landslide the 8700 K tops the rise in 1700 once again this time by 35% in average fps in hitman 2 8700 k saw its biggest improvement over the 7700 K with 1% lows an average framerate scoring 11 - 12 % higher here the new hexa core maintains a fierce upper hand against risin by 40% in average frame rates finishing with Metro last light the 8700 K scores an average FPS 26% higher than the rise in 1700 and 8 percent higher than the 7700 K reaffirming the behavioral patterns we've seen thus far now if he breaks down all of the average frame rates the 8700 K gets a 4.5% bump over its predecessor meaning if you're currently rocking a KD Lake system the upgrade to coffee lake simply isn't worth it for gaming performance alone only gamers who have a need for streaming and coding and other multi-threaded tasks will likely see true benefits from switching if this applies to you it is a damn shame but you can't just pop a coffee like chip into your 100 or 200 series motherboard as the 8th gen CPUs do have different pin configurations than their predecessors compared to the rise in 1700 the 8700 k perform 26 percent better on average which is significant and while this certainly paints coffee-like as the faster gaming chip overall not many users are using a gtx 1080p i to game at 1080p like we did in today's testing and the wide performance gap you see here is bound to shrink with a more realistic scenario that i may be testing for you guys soon now if you're not on any of these platforms at the moment and you're trying to decide which one to opt for it has to be between Rison and copy lake since kb lake is now officially a generation old if you only care about gaming then copy Lake is the easy choice however the answer may not be so cut-and-dry when throwing workstation tasks and encoding into the mix and although that wasn't today's focus this is something I'll be following up with in a future video what is certain is that you're gonna be spending more money with the 8700 k than you will with the rise in 1700 not just because of the higher MSRP but most Z 370 motherboards will be inherently pricier than AMD's be 350 offerings if you plan to overclock not to mention you'll need a decent aftermarket cooler to handle the warmer temperatures of coffee Lake now since most of today's games are still heavily GPU bound coffee Lakes added cost may not be worth it or at least it won't have quite the priced performance for which Rison has so righteously raised the bar still if you're just looking for the absolute best chip for gaming it seems Intel has no plans to hand over its title any time soon but that's all I got for now guys let me know what you think of these results in the comments does this change or confirm any expectations you had about the new platform before you guys go feel free to toss me a look on the video if you enjoyed it and be sure to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon as always I'm Cal abit wit thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you all in the next video you