Intel Core i5-8600K Review

Written by Antony Leather

December 28, 2017 | 10:00

Tags: #coffee-lake #lga-1151-v2 #z370

Companies: #intel

Terragen 4

Website: Planetside

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Planetside Software’s Terragen 4 is a highly realistic landscape generator used to create background images in films and games such as Star Trek: Nemesis, Stealth and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Our script renders a single frame of a snowy mountain scene at 640 x 480 on all the available CPU execution units.

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Cinebench R15 64-bit

Website: Maxon

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Cinebench uses Maxon's Cinema 4D engine to render a photo-realistic scene of some shiny balls and weird things (we miss the motorbike). The scene is highly complex, with reflections, ambient occlusion and procedural shaders, so it gives a CPU a tough workout.

As Cinema 4D is a real-world application - used on films such as Spider-Man and Star Wars - Cinebench can be viewed as a real-world benchmark.

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Posted by Hustler - Thu Dec 28 2017 10:34

It will be interesting to see if AMD can push clock speeds up to the 4.3-4.5Ghz range with their Ryzen 12nm refresh in a couple of months.

At 3.8-4ghz the single core performance of Ryzen isn't really good enough for my needs (emulation) but add another 500mhz+ to the equation, they might be.

If Intel are going to reduce the price on this 8600K, that's when they'll have to do it.

Posted by Guest-56605 - Thu Dec 28 2017 13:02

Meh, even reducing the price won't do it (and Intel are far to arrogant to do that anyway) and no one uses a PC solely for gaming these days not even enthusiasts.

The killer to new builds/upgrades just now be it AMD or Intel is memory prices - 16Gb is now the requisite and 16Gb kits with a decent latency (Samsung B die) and speed (3000MHz+) are astronomically priced in the here and now.

Posted by zimano - Mon Jan 01 2018 12:46

I can't see any of the graphs on any of the pages. Using Firefox ESR 52.4.0.

Posted by alfizzle - Mon Jan 01 2018 13:04

zimano
I can't see any of the graphs on any of the pages. Using Firefox ESR 52.4.0.
Same using the latest version of chrome on iPhone.
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