Since a ‘review’ of i7-8700K was already posted by Expreview, I do not think this leak will have a big value to you. What we have are official benchmark results directly from Intel’s reviewers guide thanks to our Chinese friends. Use this as a reference for upcoming reviews or compare values to your own CPU.
Intel Core i7-8700K Performance
| Standard Benchmarks, Consumer and Business Workloads | |
|---|---|
| Test System Configuration | Intel® Core™ i7-8700K System |
| PROCESSOR | Intel® Core™ i7-8700K Processor (12MB Cache, up to 4.7 GHz) |
| MOTHERBOARD | ASUS* PRIME Z370-A |
| BIOS | 0405 |
| CHIPSET | Z370 |
| CHIPSET INF | 10.1.1.44 |
| GRAPHICS CARD | Z370 |
| GRAPHICS DRIVER | 22.20.16.4758 |
| MEMORY | 2 x 8 GB DDR4-2666 |
| DISK DRIVE | Samsung* 850 PRO 1TB SSD |
| DISK MODE (RAID, AHCI) | RAID / RST |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | Microsoft® Windows® 10 Pro 64-bit (RS2 – Creators Update) |
| Benchmark (or) Software Application | Test System Results [1] |
| CPU/Platform Benchmarks | |
| Cinebench* R15.038 – 1CPU (score) | 206 |
| Cinebench* R15.038 – xCPU (score) | 1441 |
| POV-Ray 3.7.1 beta 8 ST (PPS) | 588 |
| POV-Ray 3.7.1 beta 8 MT (PPS) | 3879 |
| WebXPRT* 2015 – Edge Browser (score) | 699 |
| SYSmark* 2014 SE – Overall | 1862 |
| SYSmark 2014 SE – Office Productivity | 1469 |
| SYSmark 2014 SE – Media Creation | 2129 |
| SYSmark 2014 SE – Financial Analysis | 2629 |
| SYSmark 2014 SE – Responsiveness | 1463 |
| Graphics Benchmarks | |
| 3DMark* – Fire Strike – Overall | 1296 |
| 3DMark – Fire Strike – Graphics | 1405 |
| 3DMark – Fire Strike – Physics | 18379 |
| 3DMark – Fire Strike – Combined 436 Recommended Software Evaluation Sce | 436 |
| Recommended Software Evaluation Scenarios | |
| 4K Video Project Encode w/ Adobe Premiere* Pro CC 2017 (sec) | 185 |
| 4K Video Transcode to HEVC w/ Handbrake* 1.0.7 (sec) | 1194 |
| 4K Video Transcode to HEVC w/ Handbrake* 1.0.7 – using Intel Quick Sync Video (sec) | 285 |
| Code Compilation with Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 | 170 |
[1] Note: For specific test configurations, procedures and meaning of the values, please review the Software Evaluation Guide. The numbers listed in this table may represent a relative score, time or other parameter. Do not compare numbers between test benchmarks or software applications as this may result in an inaccurate assessment of performance. Sometimes a number may indicate HIGHER is BETTER while others may indicate LOWER is BETTER
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