Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?

Re:Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU ... by nemothekid on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:58PM (#13311916)

>The i5 and i7 are both quad-core CPUs clocked at no more than 100MHz away from each other.

I'm not sure thats a fair comparison - clock rate isn't the only thing and the current high end i5/i7 chips (6600k and the 6700k) are 500Mhz apart, and the i7 (as always) has hyperthreading (in some applications, hyperthreading is actually very useful) while the i5's don't. And while the i7 has a 15% higher clockrate, it is ~20% faster, while being 40% more expensive. With the k-series specifically, the i7 having a higher base clock also means you can overlock it better.

FWIW, I don't find Intel's naming scheme unclear, but OTOH, I have been following CPU/GPU version numbers for over 10 years so I could be blind to the confusion.

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Re:Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU ... by MichaelGG on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:36PM (#13312279)

I have an i5-5200U and it has hyperthreading. The only difference I could see was a slightly higher clockrate, and the Intel management stuff.

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Re:Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU ... by dragontamer on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:58PM (#13312469)

Nemothekid and I were mostly talking about quad-core desktop chips.

The i5-5200U is a dual-core laptop chip under 20W TDP. Its very different from the i5-6600k that Nemothekid was talking about.

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