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Ed Steele, on 08 October 2017 - 09:28 PM, said:
According to Intel the 8th gen cpus can perform 30% more IPC than the 7th gen, but I have read that people who have gotten to test the sample cpus are reporting that it is actually about 15% more, not 30%.
That is wrong. Please check the meaning of "IPC".
Until Skylake Intel was able to increase the IPC between generations (of the Core architecture). But now it seems like the old Core architecture is maxed out and the IPC cannot be increased further or it is too expensive. (Already with Skylake it was difficult for Intel to increase IPC and had to maintain the same base clock speed and lower the turbo clock speed compared to Haswell.) So now Intel only relies on higher clock speeds and a better process to increase ST performance. Reviewers need to make that transparent and not be fooled by stealth OC/"reviewer BIOS".
I doubt that customers will get the same BIOS with default overclocking, because of higher temperatures, instability, lower lifespan and higher RMA costs. Don't be suprised when 8700k is slower than expected and does not reach for example
>1500 in Cinebench or same fps like in Coffee Lake reviews.
Edited by gaIaxor, 10 October 2017 - 03:49 AM.