EnochLight wrote: ↑20 Nov 2018
Spend some time at cpubenchmark.net and compare Passmark scores. Single thread/core is quite telling, usually.
That is the trouble, folk spend too much time looking at figures, clock for clock I don't think you are far off with the 86xx over the 87xxx. Don't forget the numbers you see per core are for stock clocks and I doubt if anyone is running 8th gen i5 or i7 K's at stock speed, otherwise why did they get a K chip? You read pages of this kind of mines bigger than yours, that seems to be inevitible when some poor unsuspecting asks, and you lose persspective on what is going to do the job in the realm of what you need to get done, at a price that is sane.
Sure you can get more powerful processors and sure you can lust over figures on passmark, regardless of the chip you don't actually need the cutting edge just to run Reason well in a practical sense, regardless of what the performance mongers will tell you. A £600 box will work just fine, if money is an object. and sure a £3 grand box will work better if it isn't.
I did the test on the 6th gen, and I actually found the i5 6600 came out at better value and given the choice between the two as I was able to use both side by side I sent the 6700k back and pocketed the extra £100 or so difference in price. The biggest difference is there is no HT on the i5 and for running Reason its debatable in Reason's current state that HT is of much or any value, from my experience of having both in front of me.
So DONT overlook an i5!