The AnandTech Coffee Lake Review: Initial Numbers on the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400
by Ian Cutress on October 5, 2017 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Core i5
- Core i7
- Core i3
- 14nm
- Coffee Lake
- 14++
- Hex-Core
- Hyperthreading
Shadow of Mordor
The next title in our testing is a battle of system performance with the open world action-adventure title, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (SoM for short). Produced by Monolith and using the LithTech Jupiter EX engine and numerous detail add-ons, SoM goes for detail and complexity. The main story itself was written by the same writer as Red Dead Redemption, and it received Zero Punctuation’s Game of The Year in 2014.
A 2014 game is fairly old to be testing now, however SoM has a stable code and player base, and can still stress a PC down to the ones and zeroes. At the time, SoM was unique, offering a dynamic screen resolution setting allowing users to render at high resolutions that are then scaled down to the monitor. This form of natural oversampling was designed to let the user experience a truer vision of what the developers wanted, assuming you had the graphics hardware to power it but had a sub-4K monitor.
The title has an in-game benchmark, for which we run with an automated script implement the graphics settings, select the benchmark, and parse the frame-time output which is dumped on the drive. The graphics settings include standard options such as Graphical Quality, Lighting, Mesh, Motion Blur, Shadow Quality, Textures, Vegetation Range, Depth of Field, Transparency, and Tessellation. There are standard presets as well.
We run the benchmark at 1080p and a native 4K, using our 4K monitors, at the Ultra preset. Results are averaged across four runs and we report the average frame rate, 99th percentile frame rate, and time under analysis.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming 8G Performance
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sld - Monday, October 9, 2017 - link
In speech: "grateful" to AMD for reinvigorating competitionIn deed: gives money to Intel, effectively taking part in keeping AMD down for that bit longer, maybe causing them to return to non-competitive state, upon which AMD is blamed for being non-competitive once more.
The Invisible Hand doesn't seem so wise, sometimes.
kooya - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - link
Hear, hearWB312 - Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - link
AMD did a fantastic job with Ryzen while Intel were busy milking their customers dry. We should support AMD when they need us most. If AMD goes down it would suck not for the industry but technology as a whole.leexgx - Monday, October 16, 2017 - link
at least you can enable MCE to make all cores run at 4.6Ghz (make sure you got a good cooler) 8700K would allow you to goto 4.9-5.1Ghz with very good coolinglordken - Saturday, October 28, 2017 - link
what a "brilliant" asshardware , your Kudos worth shit to amd as they cant fund further r&d with it. But sure, run to support your milking master because they finally bothered to release, after 10 years, 4+ core for mainstream...Budburnicus - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - link
Salty salty salty people! AMD are big boys too, they can fight for themselves. It is called a FREE MARKET, and until Ryzen, AMD had nothing to even come within spitting distance of an i7-2600k!Which is coincidentally what I upgraded to my 8700k from. Running 4.8 GHZ on all cores for now, I still have plenty of thermal room, so once more people have figured out all the minute settings, I will just leave it at 4.8 til then! Also, Firestrike! https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/23022903
CPU-Z: https://valid.x86.fr/nkr5vi
Thas me, ahead of 96% of all results! And that single threaded perf, is totally insane - as is multi-core, nothing short of 16+ threads can touch it.
Zingam - Saturday, October 7, 2017 - link
I like how Ryzen 5 1600 beats the much higher TDP and much higher priced Coffee Lake in Civ Vl.This should ring a bell how software is written!!!
mkaibear - Saturday, October 7, 2017 - link
...cherry pick one benchmark, claim that it's the only one that matters...*cough*AMD fanboy*cough*
Zingam - Saturday, October 7, 2017 - link
I don't own anything AMD!Drink some water and stop that coughing!
mapesdhs - Monday, October 9, 2017 - link
:D