more cores or more threads?

[shooter2749]

im looking at the i7 8700 and the future 9700 (both non-k) for my sff build and I'm wondering if, mainly for gaming, im better off with 6c/12t or 8c/8t

what are your thoughts?

[TheGlenlivet]

1 minute ago, shooter2749 said:

im looking at the i7 8700 and the future 9700 (both non-k) for my sff nuild and I'm wondering if, mainly for gaming, im better off with 6c/12t or 8c/8t

what are your thoughts?

When the reviews come in, I'll be the 9700 will outperform the 8700, but you'll have to wait to be sure.

[Krosis]

2 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

When the reviews come in, I'll be the 9700 will outperform the 8700, but you'll have to wait to be sure.

Since most games are not optimized for multi-core performance, the number of cores shouldn't matter as long as you have 4-6 cores. The 9700 will probably be faster than the 8700, although the 9700 is not the direct successor to the 8700. That would be the 9900. But I don't know if you'll notice a significant increase in gaming performance.

[Wh0_Am_1]

31 minutes ago, shooter2749 said:

im looking at the i7 8700 and the future 9700 (both non-k) for my sff nuild and I'm wondering if, mainly for gaming, im better off with 6c/12t or 8c/8t

what are your thoughts?

Cores, threads only boost the efficiency of the core by 5% to 15% they can't compete with physical cores.

[Fluffy Zyox]

Id go with whatever has a higher clock speed, To give you an idea my 4 core 8 thred Skylake i7-6700k at 4.2ghz beats my 12 core 24 thread xeon build at 3ghz in games. quite noticeably. even using the exact same gpu in both builds.