Today we're dusting off our vintage Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K take a look at device and pairing it up with a GTX 1080 Ti to see how properly the seven-year-antique processor holds up inside the trendy and best PC video games compared to Intel's new Core i7-8700K. We understand that the 2600K still has some fight left in it, but next 12 months should eventually be time for those geared up with the aging quad-core to make their long-awaited improve.

By the cease of 2018, the GTX 1080 Ti is probable to be ousted by a fair quicker flagship GPU and as a result mid-range GPUs are anticipated to be speedie as well, that's possibly to require greater processing power than the 2600K can provide.

For state-of-the-art testing we have almost a dozen titles handy for benching the 2600K and we tested every sport the use of three extraordinary first-rate presets. The attention can be on the 1080p resolution but we also have a few 1440p results as properly, even though of direction these are greater GPU sure however many of you seem interested in those figures so I've covered them.

Last month we examined the fourth-era Core i7-4770K under the same check situations and discovered it was still hanging in there remarkably nicely, inspite of the robust GTX 1080 Ti.

Can Intel's plenty older 2nd-gen 2600K show simply as dazzling? Let's jump into the benchmarks to find out…

First up we've Ashes of the Singularity and out of the field the 2600K brought a 69fps minimal and 77fps common, making it a touch over forty% slower than the 8700K. Surprisingly, overclocking the 2600K to 4.8GHz most effective located it on par with the stock 4770K and even as it did permit for extremely playable overall performance it turned into nonetheless around 30% slower than the 8700K.

Increasing the visual first-rate settings with the acute preset did not alternate a good deal, here the 2600K become 28% slower than the 8700K, so it nonetheless trailed by using a as an alternative large margin.

Using the loopy preset we're usually GPU certain though out of the container the 2600K takes a beating for the common body charge. Overclocked overall performance become boosted via 22% to 88fps and now the 2600K is best round nine% slower than the bulk of the seventh and 8th-gen CPUs.

The in the end the closing Ashes of the Singularity take a look at turned into performed at 1440p and here the margins near up a little extra but even as soon as overclocked the 2600K was around 6% slower than the extra contemporary Intel processors.

Next up we've got Battlefield 1 and boy has the Core i7-2600K elderly in this one, as a minimum whilst the use of medium best settings at 1080p with a effective powerful graphics card. Under those situations it appears quite slow, but then it is seven years old now so that in thoughts it's bloody staggering genuinely. Anyway, here it was once more, more or less forty% slower than the 8700K and even overclocked struggles to fit the stock 4770K.

Increasing the visible exceptional settings with the high preset doesn't exchange much, the 2600K continues to be almost forty% slower than the 8700K and once overclocked again falls simply short of the inventory 4770K which become the most unexpected result for me.

Even with the ultra great settings enabled, the 2600K still gets trampled -- here it was 35% slower than the stock 8700K. With each CPUs overclocked the margin is reduced to 22% for the average although I ought to be aware the 8700K is GPU confined in this test. The 1% low end result is a higher indicator of authentic performance and here the 2600K turned into 34% slower.

It's well worth pointing out though that most GTX 1080 Ti owners probable aren't interested in playing Battlefield 1 at this type of low resolution -- 1440p seems more suitable. Here we are even greater GPU constrained and as a result the 2600K become just 9% slower than the 8700K when comparing the common body charge as soon as each CPUs had been overclocked. Of path it is the 1% low that we have to definitely attention on and in BF1 the 2600K turned into nonetheless 21% slower, that is in reality a noteworthy deficit.