Review: Intel Core i5 8600K CPU
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xIcarus
Well since the availability is still close to null, this product is borderline vaporware.
lexa47
Wow, really impressive results. I pre-ordered this CPU week ago in Czech (for +- 260 Euro), officialy prize is 273 euro, soooooo Im OK with it 🙂
kapu
no i5 7600k in the benchmark is mistake in my opinion as it is it's predecessor and was (is ) very popular CPU. Also the prices here a not that terrible , you can get i5 8600k for 300euros. I would take it tomorrow if not the fact i have to replace motherboard, i wish intel would change that ...
Overall it seems like a king CPU for gaming vs price ?
ezodagrom
Nice review, it's interesting that the 8600K is so close to the 8700K in the low resolution gaming tests, makes me wonder how well the non-K CPUs would do (i5 8400/i7 8700).
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Yeah I might purchase one as I really wanted that SKU in there as well. As stated, Intel does not supply these procs and all procs that we have had our hands on where returned to Intel at the time.
Jagman
Agreed, this is makes more sense than the 8700K. It's just a shame the platform will probably be another dead end again.
Borys
Hi all! Nice review HH!
Well... times are different nowadays. AMD really did very well with Ryzen.
This i5 8600K was SPANKED by a US 200 RYZEN 1600?!?! I really dont understand that people come with this story "its a gaming processors"... what is for gaming is GPU.. at this point of level any good processor will play very well.
Intel is falling every day... this processor is 30% more expensive and WORST the R5 1600. Only who not like his money to buy INTEL today!
Incredible Lama
Looks pretty good for enthousiast gamers, beats the 1600x performance-wise.
Any chance we'll be seeing a 1900x review soon Hilbert?
vbetts
Moderator
Question, where do you see the 8600k being spanked by the 1600? They're pretty even(a few points ahead for the 1600 in synthetic, and a few points ahead for the 8600k in gaming, but not enough to make a difference) in synthetic and gaming tests.
What I will say about the 8600k versus the 1600, for minimum performance difference you pay $80. That's a lot to pay for considering very marginal difference.
H83
Very nice CPU but i can´t use it on my MB so Intel can keep it.
Great review as always!!!
NiColaoS
I really want to jump, but I don't see any reason to get the 8600K over 8400 ( 80€; difference! ). The problem is, the 8400 comes only locked. I don't mind at all being locked, but, right now, no options for a completely suitable motherboard... The Asrock Extreme 4 is all I want ( Intel l219V lan, 1220 Realtek audio, M2 slots and USB 3.1 future-proof af ), but it comes only with Z chipset. I don't see H370 Extreme 4 being available. I don't want to give more money for something I won't ever use ( motherboard being unlocked whilst CPU locked ).
So, let's say I get the 8400 over 8600K and if there was H370 over Z370 chipset... I could spend ~110€ less for both of them.
schmidtbag
Probably the best all-around CPU Intel has released since the 2700K. The real stupid thing is how they could've released this product over 2 years ago (with Skylake, or maybe even Haswell). If I had a 144Hz+ monitor, this would definitely be the CPU I'd get. But since I have no interest in that and probably never will, I don't regret having a Ryzen 5.
Intel is in a bit of a sticky situation with this model. The 8600K needs to outperform the 1600(X), but it shouldn't ever do better than the 8700K, and it wouldn't look good on Intel if it did better than the 7700K. They can't adjust the price too much because that would make the 7700K look like more of total rip-off than it already is and annoy KL owners more than they already have. Despite this being a great product, Intel's sandbagging with KL has finally caught up with them.
MonstroMart
Great in deep review Hilbert with all the informations needed to make a sensible purchase.
I'm building a new computer soon for my work (with some casual gaming) at home and i'll probably buy the Ryzen 5 1600x and hope games will be more optimized for multi cores in the future.
Kaarme
Non-game benchmarks were a bit lackluster to be brutally honest, but all in all it looks like a pretty nice CPU, especially for gaming. I might have been tempted to upgrade to this if Intel had made Coffee Lake compatible with the previous generation mobos with the same socket. But no way I'd buy a whole new mobo for this. It was Intel's choice for their own reasons, so they won't see my money.
ezodagrom
As someone who values gaming performance over anything else, when I buy a CPU I want something that will handle well not just games that take advantage of multiple cores but also games that want fast cores.
I also want something that is more likely to handle future more demanding games better, especially since once I get a coffee lake based system, I don't intend to upgrade CPU again for at least 5+ years, while I intend to upgrade GPU in just 2 or 3 years.
Though, for myself, I'm not interested in the i5 8600K. I'm finding the i5 8400 and i7 8700 alot more interesting, both price and specs wise (I'm very likely to get both, i5 for my sister's PC, i7 for myself, though I'll be using the i5 while I save up money for the i7).
Robbo9999
I think the inclusion of the new low res 720p CPU bound testing was a good step Hilbert, thanks for including those. People with 144Hz 1080p monitors like myself sometimes turn down game details to achieve 144 fps while still gaming at 1080p, which is effectively the same for the CPU as the tests you're doing at 720p, so it's a useful inclusion to see how different CPUs will perform in the 144Hz zone. It looks like Intel is dominating in that zone, even some of the older generations of Intel too.
8600K looks like a good gaming CPU right now, although if I were building a system now I'd go the extra for the 8700K to get more threads, which is useful now but also increasingly in the future - 8700K would be a more solid platform for upcoming future GPU generation upgrades.
nz3777
I am liking this bad-boy way more then the 8700k- I still think a cheeper price maybe $220 would be more sutable but for intel even this price is a shocker.My pick now is either this or ryzen 1600x or 1600. Very smart responce from intel to Amd's Ryzen.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Correct, AMD wins in the non game benchmarks as leave enabled SMT for all their Ryzen 5 processors - Intel disables HT (SMT) for the Core i5 86000k. So for those that didn't get as to why Ryzen performs better in the non-game benchies, that would be the main reason.
Borys
Very well remembered my dear HH. Add to this a nice overclock gains that 1600/x can do and BINGO, the best buy with sure!
Other thing, the 8600K has some more FPS with a 1080 card, but i have a question. How much % in FPS this CPU gains with a intermediate VGA that I think this CPU was designated to?
ScoobyDooby
And the dumb as bricks comment award of the day goes to....
I doubt a single person who's been waiting for the 8600k as their next CPU gives a toss about non-gaming performance. Always has been dubbed as the gaming CPU for this generation and in that it absolutely does what it sets out to do.
I'm really looking forward to getting one! Happy to get a new mobo also.. this new series is for those of us on SandyBridge/IvyBridge who are desperate for an upgrade, and those who wish to go 6 core and don't mind the platform upgrade.
