Review: Intel Core i7-7700K (14nm+ Kaby Lake)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 January 2017, 09:00

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CPU Performance

The salient point to remember in the CPU tests is that the Core i7-7700K operates at an all-core frequency of 4.2GHz and single core at 4.5GHz, up from the 4.0/4.2GHz for the Skylake sixth-generation chip.

It's easy to see that frequency is all that separates these two quad-core chips. We proved this empircally by running the Core i7-6700K at the same frequencies as the Kaby Lake and found performance to be within one per cent.

From a CPU perspective, then, Kaby Lake is merely a faster-clocked iteration of Skylake.