6700K OR 6800k FOR GAMING?

[Abhinavp]

in my country the 6800k is just 150 bucks more. but i am confused which to buy because idont want to drop framerates with the 6800k! 

SO,

which is better for GAMING?

6700K  OR  6800K

[iRileyx]

purely for gaming? neither. 6600k.

[DunePilot]

1 minute ago, Abhinavp said:

in my country the 6800k is just 150 bucks more. but i am confused which to buy because idont want to drop framerates with the 6800k! 

SO,

which is better for GAMING?

6700K  OR  6800K

6700k is slightly faster, not really going to be a noticeable difference between the two. If all you are doing is gaming then there isn't much of a reason to pay more for a 6800k.

If you run a youtube channel on the side or something you might like the 6800k over the 6700k.

[Oberon.Smite]

Just go for the 6600k, you will see barely any performance increase if you go for an i7 over an i5 for gaming. But, if you're really bent on the i7, get the 6700k so you don't spend more money than you need to for negligible performance increase.

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, RKRiley said:

purely for gaming? neither. 6600k.

Oh that's not true. 6600K will hold back highest-end GPUs in a way that a 6700K wouldn't.

 

6700K has higher IPC and usually overclocks better than a 6800K while being cheaper, so for purely gaming, 6700K should be your choice as it should be a little bit better for less money. 6800K is more powerful, but that doesn't mean it'll do better in gaming. It will be better in most other tasks, but not that particular one.

[HKZeroFive]

Solely gaming? The i7 6700K. The i7 6800K also doesn't overclock as well.

 

EDIT: And yet people are saying the i5 6600K is all you need for gaming... they're wrong.

[Aytex]

6700k

i'd drop to the 6700 if you are compromising on a gpu

[iRileyx]

2 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Oh that's not true. 6600K will hold back highest-end GPUs in a way that a 6700K wouldn't.

 

6700K has higher IPC and usually overclocks better than a 6800K while being cheaper, so for purely gaming, 6700K should be your choice as it should be a little bit better for less money. 6800K is more powerful, but that doesn't mean it'll do better in gaming. It will be better in most other tasks, but not that particular one.

Thats true, but unless he has a 1080 or a titan, he should be good with just a 6600k. 1070 may have a slight bottleneck but it wouldnt be worth paying the extra 100+ for a 6700k to remove that imo.

[Aytex]

1 minute ago, RKRiley said:

Thats true, but unless he has a 1080 or a titan, he should be good with just a 6600k. 1070 may have a slight bottleneck but it wouldnt be worth paying the extra 100+ for a 6700k to remove that imo.

You're gonna have to pay up a good amount for a decent cpu cooler to overclock which gets rid of some of the bottleneck but even then you're still spending more, so might as well at that point.

[typographie]

7 minutes ago, Abhinavp said:

in my country the 6800k is just 150 bucks more. but i am confused which to buy because idont want to drop framerates with the 6800k!

The 6800K doesn't "drop frames." The 6700K has a slight edge in per-core performance that you'll likely never notice in a game, but both CPUs are essentially tied for the best gaming CPU available. If you're going to get the 6700K, get it because it's a lot cheaper and still basically matches the 6800K in most games. You're not going to regret the gaming performance of either one.

[Morgan MLGman]

2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Thats true, but unless he has a 1080 or a titan, he should be good with just a 6600k

From what I know, at 1080p even an OC'd 6600K can hold back a GTX 1070 in very CPU-intensive titles... The golden age of i5's seems to be at dawn when it comes to gaming With Vega and Volta there will be more GPUs that are too fast for an i5, and considering that Kaby Lake shows around 1% IPC boost, 7700K is not going to change anything...

 

An i7-6700 is a better buy than a 6600K cause overall, the cost of both platform is the same. (You need an expensive Z170 motherboard and a beefy CPU cooler for the 6600K)

[EPPHO]

6600k is for gaming

[SmashinMachine]

I would never buy Skylake now. They will release Kabylake in 3-4 Months 

[SmashinMachine]

I would wait for Kabylake and for LGA 2066. this Intel’s Basin Falls-X platform will support both Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors on the same platform. Kaby Lake-X CPUs will be the budget version for the highend systems. Intel’s Basin Falls-X platform will support Cannonlake in 2020 too. You rest 3-4 years with this

 

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-x-kaby-lake-x-platform-launch-2017/

[Castdeath97]

Which GPU are you going to get with it?

[Sreno1]

6700k if all you do is game, the 6700k can handle light workstation loads too.

[Gonio]

6700K is currently best gaming CPU, and the only reason for that is because of the higher clockspeed and possible better OC headroom vs the 6800K.

[Abhinavp]

thanks everyone! i will buy the 6700k or wait for kabylake!

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 hour ago, RKRiley said:

purely for gaming? neither. 6600k.

 

1 hour ago, Oberon.Smite said:

Just go for the 6600k, you will see barely any performance increase if you go for an i7 over an i5 for gaming.

 

1 hour ago, Thread212 said:

Get i5 6600k.. and u'ill be good.

No need to spend more on 6700k.

 

1 hour ago, frozeNNN said:

6600k is for gaming

 

How about... NO!!

 

[i_build_nanosuits]

4 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

And stuck with LGA1150??

IM NOT RECOMMENDING HASWELL CPU...i'm saying that you guys are WRONG about the 6700K not being worth it for a gaming machine.

it's 2016-2017 now...not 2011-2012 anymore.

 

EDIT: in fact, i even changed my vote...buying into a new platform right now and considering 150$ extra for the broadwell-E 6 cores 12 threads i7-6800K...personally...now that i think about it, i would swing for it...that's just me though.

[EPPHO]

2 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

IM NOT RECOMMENDING HASWELL CPU...i'm saying that you guys are WRONG about the 6700K not being worth it for a gaming machine.

it's 2016-2017 now...not 2011-2012 anymore.

No shit it's 2016 Sherlock

[i_build_nanosuits]

3 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

By showing haswell benchmark??

We are not saying 6700k is not worth for gaming.

We recommend 6600k because its more than enough for gaming.

it's not...have you seen the benchmarks?

the 6600K will limit higher end graphics solutions in some games from 2016...even more in games from 2017, and will likely be mostly irrelevant once 2018 games hit the shelves...if you buy a CPU for 2 years then alright it's ''Good enough''...sub optimal but good enough...but if you buy with the intentions of using it for 3 to 5 years like most of us do and plan to upgrade only the GPU 2 or 3 times during this timespan then yeah by all means buy a more capable CPU.

[EPPHO]

Just now, i_build_nanosuits said:

it's not...have you seen the benchmarks?

the 6600K will limit higher end graphics solutions in some games from 2016...even more in games from 2017, and will likely be mostly irrelevant once 2018 games hit the shelves...if you buy a CPU for 2 years then alright it's ''Good enough''...sub optimal but good enough...but if you buy with the intentions of using it for 3 to 5 years like most of us do and plan to upgrade only the GPU 2 or 3 times during this timespan then yeah by all means by a more capable CPU.

I don't see any "big" games that are releasing in 2017 which are using DX12 (DX12 is using more than 4 cores,i7 and i5 are both 4 core CPUs)

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

I don't see any "big" games that are releasing in 2017 which are using DX12 (DX12 is using more than 4 cores,i7 and i5 are both 4 core CPUs)

battlefield 1 is a DX11 game and look at the results...alright i'm not here to argue with some 13 years old know it all so i'll leave it at that son.

[Mick Naughty]

As my 4790k isn't enough to play bf1. I'll be going 6700k. Didn't see the 6800 at my local store but I may go that route.