I think it's been some time since we covered some decent benchmarks of Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs, especially the flagship Core i7-8700K. Well, the wait is over and we have a fresh set of benchmarks straight from Chinese sources. The latest benchmarks show Intel's 6 core chip blazing past AMD's eight core and even Intel's 6 core HEDT processors.

Intel Core i7-8700K Leaked Benchmarks Show Faster Than AMD's 8 Core and Intel HEDT 6 Core CPUs

The Intel Core i7-8700K will be an interesting processor for consumers as it is the first mainstream chip from the blue giant to feature 6 cores. The new chips will be marketed under the Intel 8th gen branding and will be featured on a new platform known as the 300-series. The 300-series platform will mean that the chips will not be compatible with older 200-series platforms although the 300-series is known to feature the same socket aka LGA 1151 (v2). While we have seen some benchmarks for the flagship chip, nothing has been conclusive or worthy to be compared to other processors. This leak however is different as it compares the new Intel chip to it's 7th generation predecessors and also AMD's 8 core Ryzen processor.

Intel Core i7-8700K – The Coffee Lake Flagship With 6 Cores and 4.3 GHz Boost Across All Cores

The Intel Core i7-8700K will be the flagship processor of the lineup. It will feature 6 cores and 12 threads. The chip will be compatible with the LGA 1151 socket and rumors are that board makers will extend support of Coffee Lake onto 200-series and even 100-series platforms. The chip will be Intel’s first hexa core product and will be based on the 14nm process node.

In terms of clock speeds, we are looking at a 3.7 GHz base frequency which boosts up to 4.3 GHz (6 core), 4.4 GHz (4 core), 4.5 GHz (2 core) and 4.7 GHz (1 core). These clocks are really impressive so we can expect much faster gaming performance on Coffee Lake parts than the current generation of CPUs. The chip is fully unlocked allowing for overclocking and comes with a TDP of 95W. There’s 12 MB of L3 cache on board along with a GT2 tier iGPU. The chip supports DDR4-2666 MHz clocked memory (native) and up to 4400 MHz+ (OC). We can expect the Core i7-8700K to cost around $349 US when it launches in Q3 2017.

Intel Coffee Lake 8th Gen Desktop Core Lineup: