The Intel Core i7-8086K Review
by Ian Cutress on June 11, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Core i7
- Anniversary
- Coffee Lake
- i7-8086K
- 5 GHz
- 8086K
- 5.0 GHz
Civilization 6
First up in our CPU gaming tests is Civilization 6. Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civ series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer overflow. Truth be told I never actually played the first version, but every edition from the second to the sixth, including the fourth as voiced by the late Leonard Nimoy, it a game that is easy to pick up, but hard to master.
Benchmarking Civilization has always been somewhat of an oxymoron – for a turn based strategy game, the frame rate is not necessarily the important thing here and even in the right mood, something as low as 5 frames per second can be enough. With Civilization 6 however, Firaxis went hardcore on visual fidelity, trying to pull you into the game. As a result, Civilization can taxing on graphics and CPUs as we crank up the details, especially in DirectX 12.
Perhaps a more poignant benchmark would be during the late game, when in the older versions of Civilization it could take 20 minutes to cycle around the AI players before the human regained control. The new version of Civilization has an integrated ‘AI Benchmark’, although it is not currently part of our benchmark portfolio yet, due to technical reasons which we are trying to solve. Instead, we run the graphics test, which provides an example of a mid-game setup at our settings.
At both 1920x1080 and 4K resolutions, we run the same settings. Civilization 6 has sliders for MSAA, Performance Impact and Memory Impact. The latter two refer to detail and texture size respectively, and are rated between 0 (lowest) to 5 (extreme). We run our Civ6 benchmark in position four for performance (ultra) and 0 on memory, with MSAA set to 2x.
For reviews where we include 8K and 16K benchmarks (Civ6 allows us to benchmark extreme resolutions on any monitor) on our GTX 1080, we run the 8K tests similar to the 4K tests, but the 16K tests are set to the lowest option for Performance.
As a reminder, ASRock were not able to loan us the exact GPU that I normally use for our gaming testing. Instead we were able to source an RX 580, so this means that our gaming testing data will only have two data points: a Core i7-8700K and a Core i7-8086K. We will get some more data next week when we are back in the office.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
ASRock RX 580 Performance
Almost zero difference for Civilization between the two. The 8086K is never in a situation to fire up to 5.0 GHz.
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Oxford Guy - Thursday, June 14, 2018 - link
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It seems like the only good reason to buy this processor would be for the preferential binning - it's kind of like a manufacturer official version of Silicon Lottery.xpto - Thursday, June 14, 2018 - link
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jarf1n - Thursday, June 14, 2018 - link
well i know and few more that anatech are and clear long time amd support and cant make test without raise amd gpus and cpus someway better.sad...
but we are not idiots
its clear that both 6-core cpus 870k0 and 8086 are much better cpus than amds 8-core ryzen 2700x. that is clear fact
2700x is 8-core and still loose 3dmarks what is historical.. bcoz never bfore cpu that own more cores LOOSE cpu wich have less them.
its tell clear that ryzen 2700x is weak and also mem problem show it.
2700x cant handle high timing and hertz,
2700x is better and really shod be for mathematic apz,but as i say ITS 8-CORE CPU.
still it loose many test.
and for thouse importants games and 3dmarks its loose and clear.
when intels ALSO 8-core cpu guess 9700k release we really see how bad 2700z is.
i can say that 8-core 2700x loose clear for intels 9700k 8-core cpu.
ok..then 6700k vs 8086 cpu
well its clear that 8086 is better than 8700k,bcoz 8086 is hand picket cpus and oc'd better than 8700k.
so its mean 8086 ov'c higher,running lower heat ...exmaple all 8086 ov'd easily 5ghz, many 8700k not. only best.. and i took 24/7 use.
sure if you get good 8700k its different,but if different is example anatech saying 75$ that i can get good cpu i pay it for joy!
if you want best gaming rig buy:
asus hero x
2x8gb 4000mhz cl17 mem
8086 or 8700k cpu and ocäd it about 5ghz
buy more nvidia gtx 1080 ti
then u have gaming rig that amd cant beat near 2 years...think about it...
gtx 1080 ti is old shit and amd vega only few month old still no chance.
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I wasnt expecting much out of the 8086k over the 8700k... but this is truely underwhelming. Only a single core turbo boost? I was expecting all the boost tiers to be higher. And same tdp....so there goes it doing anything more at stock.I wasnt going to buy one anyway....so i guess it doesnt matter. I completely agree that intel could have and should have done more.
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