Is there really that big of a difference between the i7 models? Would a 6700K from a couple years ago be future proof for a good amount of time?
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Adrian White
Juan Morris
Literally 2% increment if not less. There is really no reason to buy the most recent models. But you shouldn't go with Intel though, because AMD has simply better CPUs now.
Angel Cox
The only way to currently improve performance is to increase the amount of threads, so if nothing new happens we'll require more and more cores in order to gain performance. So in that regard, a quad-core would not be sufficient in the long run. Not to mention on a dead platform.
Kevin Anderson
Better in benchmarking?
Ian Myers
>Is there really that big of a difference between the i7 models?
In the older models? No. The latest 9700k tho, yes. It's just 8 cores while the older ones were 4c/8t
>Would a 6700K from a couple years ago be future proof for a good amount of time?
For most people it would be however this will entirely depend on what you do with your computer.
Christian Peterson
what about 8700k 6c/12t vs 9700k 8c ?
Kayden James
You will literally not notice a difference and the 8700k is marginally cheaper.
Austin Gomez
The 9700K has improved thermal performance due to a solder TIM and lower thermal density. This means delidding is not necessary, and also impossible without an oven.
General performance is around the same, though.
Thomas Foster
I upgraded from 4770 to 6700 and it felt the same.
The motherboard with the 6700 died so I went back to the 4770 and brought my gtx 1080 to that machine and it's still barely bottlenecking vidyas
Asher Turner
That's more on you being dumb for making the most marginal upgrade in history.