Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i7-8700

Core i7-8086K vs Core i7-8700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8086K performs better than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700 outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.