Intel Core i7-10700K, 8C/16T, 3.80-5.10GHz, boxed ohne Kühler

Inzwischen sind weitere Comet-Lake-Prozessoren in der PCGH-Redaktion eingetroffen. Die Testkandidaten, Intel Core i7-10700K und Intel Core i5-10400F, überzeugen dabei mit hoher Spieleleistung und effizienter Architektur. Im Hands-On verschaffen wir Ihnen eine Übersicht über die Performance und stellen Vergleiche mit Intels Vorgänger Coffee Lake und AMD Zen 2 an.

Mit der neuen Comet-Lake-Generation geht Intel in die bereits zehnte Runde der Core-i-Prozessoren und stellt neben einer überarbeiten Architektur auch einen neuen Sockel sowie dazugehörige Chipsätze vor. Wir machen für euch exklusiv den Test mit dem Intel Core i7-10700K und dazu den Core i9-10900K.

Honestly, if you already own a processor like a 9900K we see absolutely no reason to upgrade. The performance is pretty much the same with the usual oddities and offsets in mind. Considering the Z490 platform doesn't offer anything new other then WIFI6 and 2.5+ GigE ethernet either, this processor simply put is a hard sell for anyone to upgrade. That doesn't mean it's a poor processor though, contrary it's great, but more of the same that we have seen for a while now. BTW there will be media reviews out there showing an excess of 10% additional performance over a 9900K, likely they did not set up their motherboard BIOS towards reference standards. So realistically that is a 5% margin increase.

The Core i7-10700K is part of the HyperThreading gravy train Intel unleashed with the 10th Gen "Comet Lake" desktop processor family. It relieves the i7-9700K, which has been seriously outclassed by the Ryzen 7 3700X because AMD scored massive IPC and efficiency boosts with "Zen 2" and 7 nm. We can safely conclude that while Intel is working on getting its 10 nm nodes up and running, they're not able to generate the output needed to build large 8+ core dies in the huge volumes required for desktops, which is why they are targeting two different segments: ultraportable notebooks and soon servers, with "Sapphire Rapids." Both platforms are relatively low-volume compared to mainstream notebooks (H-segment) and desktops (S-segment). We hence have Intel refreshing the "Skylake" core design from half a decade ago, on a 14 nm-class process. It's impressive that a combination of the two is still competitive in the face of AMD's generational IPC gains and use of cutting-edge foundry nodes.