Intel Core i7-8700

Intel Core i7-8700 Benchmark and Specs

Intel Core i7-8700 Processor benchmark, specs and release date - 3 GHz 6 core Intel 8th Generation Core i7 LGA 1151 CPU rating. Is the Core i7-8700 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

49 %
Very Good score from 20 samples
Low uncertainty
Performance
Very Good
Ranking
152nd of 626
Popularity
75th of 626
Samples
20 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Very Good

49 %

Gaming

Very Good

68 %

Multitasking

Very Good

42 %

Heavy Workloads

Very Good

41 %

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

3DMark Physics

3DMark Physics

Physics simulation benchmark

7,100
Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124
Geekbench 5 (multi)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

5,865
Geekbench 5 (single)

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

1,478
Geekbench 6 (multi)

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

5,916
Geekbench 6 (single)

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

1,497

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CPU Comparison

The Intel Core i7-8700 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Core i7-12700
102 %
Intel Core i5-12400
70 %
Intel Core i5-10400F
49 %
Intel Core i7-8700
49 %
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
46 %
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
44 %
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
43 %

Specifications

Clock Speed 3.2 GHz
Turbo Speed 4.6 GHz
Cores 6
Threads 12
L1 Cache 384 KiB
L2 Cache 1536 KiB
L3 Cache 12 MiB
PCIe Revision 3
PCIe Lanes 16
Socket LGA 1151
Family 8th Generation Core i7
Memory Type DDR4-2666
Memory Channels 2
Max Memory 128 GiB
Release Date 2017-11-01
Supports ECC Memory No
Has Unlocked Multiplier No
TDP 65 W

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Intel Core i7-8700

The Core i7-8700 is a 6 core CPU from Intel released in 2017. This chip has a very good overall score at 49% in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a very good processor for gaming, with a score of 68%. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the Core i7-8700 scores 42% and 41% respectively. Indeed, this is a very good rating for very heavy workloads.

The Core i7-8700 has 6 cores and 12 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors. This Intel CPU has a clock speed of 3.2 GHz and a turbo speed of 4.6 GHz : a higher clock speed that can be reached when thermals and power delivery allow. This CPU has a locked multiplier, so you are not able to overclock it beyond this frequency.

As for memory, the Core i7-8700 makes use of DDR4-2666 memory. The faster the memory, the better. Faster memory means that the CPU doesn't have to wait to get the data it needs. It can accommodate a maximum of 128 GiB of memory. Furthermore, this chip can handle up to 2 channels of RAM, a multichannel memory architecture allows for higher data transfer between the CPU and the memory. However, to take advantage of this, you must have enough memory slots filled. Error correcting memory is not supported on this processor.

In terms of cache, the Core i7-8700 has 384 KiB of level 1 cache, 1 MiB of level 2 cache and 12 MiB of level 3 cache. This is a fast memory located close to the processor, which stores copies of frequently used data from main memory.

This CPU has fast connectivity with support for PCI-Express Gen 3. The faster the PCIe link, the better. This allows for better performance with GPUs and NVME SSDs. It has a total of 16 PCIe lanes.

Power and thermals for the Intel Core i7-8700 CPU are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 65 watts. This measures the amount of heat the processor produces when running at full load. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's good estimate.

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