Intel Core i7-10700K: lower digit, lower price, higher performance?

Gaming, graphics tests and PC/3DMark

In the latest Core i9-10900K test, we found it to be great for high fps games, but the power draw, price and performance are not as good as the competition, AMD, offers. Intel still maintained its lead in games, but the 10900K is definitely not an ideal processor. If games are your priority, the alternative may be the Core i7-10700K which is actually just a redesignated and slightly modified Core i9-9900K.

Far Cry 5


In the gaming test, the older 9900K was surprisingly better and has higher minimum and average fps which are important. I assume that the difference was caused by better BIOS optimization on older motherboards where it has already “matured”. The novelty has only the second BIOS version released and it can be expected that the performance may improve slightly.

Unigine Heaven and Superposition


In other graphics tests the 10700K already has a 3 and 5% lead over the older model. At the same time it loses only 1% to 10900K.

PCMark and 3DMark


Similarly, both PCMark and 3DMark Firestrike show that the newer 10700K is still on top of 9900K by 5 and 2%. Here, too, we see that the 10700K does not lose by much to the 10900K, specifically 6 and 1%.

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