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Intel
Intel Core i7-8700
A six-core, twelve-thread Coffee Lake i7 held to a 65 W base power and a locked multiplier, still boosting to 4.6 GHz on one core. It gives up only a few percent to the 8700K in most real workloads while fitting a small case and running off the bundled cooler.
Pros
- Six cores and twelve threads with 12 MB L3, the full i7 configuration
- 4.6 GHz single-core turbo, only 100 MHz behind the 8700K
- 65 W base power and a retail cooler included - viable in SFF and OEM chassis
- UHD Graphics 630 at 1200 MHz with QuickSync encode and 4K HEVC/VP9 decode
- Windows 11 supported, and it runs on cheap B360/H370 boards
Cons
- Locked multiplier, and the 65 W PL1 clamps sustained all-core work unless the board lifts power limits
- The bundled cooler is marginal for long rendering or encoding runs
- DDR4-2666 official, with no memory overclocking outside Z370/Z390
- Requires a 300-series chipset - not compatible with 100/200-series boards
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core i7-8700
General
- Announced
- 2017
- Socket
- LGA1151-v2
- Process
- 14 nm
- Base TDP
- 65 W
- Unlocked multiplier
- No
- Cooler included
- Yes
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 6
- Performance cores
- 6
- Efficiency cores
- 0
- Threads
- 12
- Base clock
- 3.2 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.6 GHz
- L2 cache
- 1.5 MB
- L3 cache
- 12 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel UHD Graphics 630
- iGPU clock
- 1,200 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR4-2666
- Max memory
- 64 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 3
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 16
Benchmarks
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,230Bottom 23%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 8,400Bottom 23%
- PassMark
- 12,734Bottom 23%
- PassMark (single thread)
- 2,624Bottom 25%
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core i7-8700 good in 2026?
The Intel Core i7-8700 earns an Inno Score of 34.8/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. A six-core, twelve-thread Coffee Lake i7 held to a 65 W base power and a locked multiplier, still boosting to 4.6 GHz on one core. It gives up only a few percent to the 8700K in most real workloads while fitting a small case and running off the bundled cooler.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core i7-8700?
Cores: 6 · Threads: 12 · Boost clock: 4.6 GHz · Socket: LGA1151-v2
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core i7-8700?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 3 5300G, AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i5-10500 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
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