On August 22, Intel officially released the Kaby Lake Refresh of the eighth generation of Core family. In the official description, Intel said that the performance of the eighth generation of Core was 40% higher than that of the previous generation. This sentence does not mean Kaby Lake Refresh alone, but refers to all products of the eighth generation of Core family.

Although the eighth generation of Core desktop processor has not been officially released yet, relevant revelations have been heard all the time. At present, some foreign media have obtained relevant test data of the i7-8700K. They said that although the single core performance of the 8700K is very close to the previous generation's 7700K, it has improved about 40% in multi-core performance, This is also consistent with the official description of Intel.

After all, the i7-8700K is a 6-core 12 thread processor, while the i7-7700K has only four cores and eight threads. Although the default frequency of 8700K for a single core is slightly behind, the maximum Rui frequency is almost the same. In addition, it is reported that the official price of 8700K box will be similar to the initial listing price of 7700K, about 2600 yuan.