UserBenchmark: Intel Core i7-12700K vs i7-8700

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Best Bench: 123% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 102% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 1.3 GHz (avg)

Poor: 102% Great: 123%

SPEED RANK: 31^st / 1442

Gaming 114%

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Desktop 114%

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Workstation 126%

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Best Bench: 94% Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 75% Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg)

Poor: 75% Great: 94%

SPEED RANK: 161^st / 1442

Gaming 87%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 78%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		114 %	Much faster effective speed. +31%		87 %


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	81.7 Pts		88.7 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +9%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	201 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +60%	126 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	397 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +62%	245 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	781 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +70%	459 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1407 Pts	Hugely faster octa-core speed. +88%	748 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	92.7 Pts		95.5 Pts	+3%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	212 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +61%	132 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	423 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +61%	263 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	841 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +62%	518 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1587 Pts	Hugely faster OC octa-core speed. +93%	822 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	1.19 %	+4%	1.14 %
Value Value For Money	122 %	Better value. +28%	95.3 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	90 %	More popular. +27%	71 %
Price Price (score)	$215		$200	Slightly cheaper. +7%


Age Newest	29 Months	Much more recent. +63%	78 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watts		65 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +48%
Cores CPU Processing Cores	12 cores	Hugely higher core count. +100%	6 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	20 threads	Much higher thread count. +67%	12 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	10 nm	Newer manufacturing. +29%	14 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.6 GHz	Faster base frequency. +12%	3.2 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	5 GHz	Slightly faster turbo frequency. +9%	4.6 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	2480 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +138%	1043 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	2271 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +143%	936 Pts


Series CPU Architecture	Alder Lake	Coffee Lake
Socket Motherboard Socket	FCLGA1700	FCLGA1151
Graphics Integrated Graphics	UHD 770	UHD 630

The 12-core i7-12700K sits in the middle of Intel’s latest 12th gen. Alder Lake CPU line-up. It offers a significant performance improvement over it's predecessor (+50% 64-core). The 12700K features a new hybrid architecture which combines eight hyper-threaded performance cores with four efficiency cores for a total of 20 threads. With an MSRP of $410 USD, the 12700K offers similar real world performance to the flagship i9-12900K, at a 30% price discount. Although, by historical standards, this represents superb value for money, most consumers should consider the 10-core 16-thread i5-12600K which offers comparable real-world performance for 30% less money. ^{[Nov '21 CPUPro]}

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The high-end hex core, 12 thread i7-8700 is second in Intel’s line up of 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs that witnesses an increase in the number of cores at each SKU, as well as further refinement on the 14nm architecture as seen in the 6th and 7th generations. The i7-8700 features a TDP of 65W, 12MB of L3 Cache and 16 PCIe lanes. Although the 8700 has a base clock of 3.2 GHz it has an all core boost of 4.3 GHz and a single core boost of 4.6 GHz. These are unusually high clocks for a non-K SKU, Intel have historically clocked their non-K SKUs around 10% lower than the flagship K variants but with Coffee Lake, the 8700 is almost a match for a stock 8700K. Priced at $320, the i7-8700 offers exceptional single, quad and multi-core processing power to the mainstream market but unfortunately a new 300 series chipset will also need to be factored into the purchase. AMD’s comparably priced Ryzen 7 1700X is an 8 core 16 thread processor which is around 20% faster at multi-threaded tasks, but has around 20% slower single and quad core performance so the choice between these two processors is use case dependant but generally favours Intel for most desktop users whose workloads are typically single or dual core bound. ^{[Oct '17 CPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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