octaving Intel Core i7-8700K testing with a ASRock Z370 Taichi (P1.20 BIOS) and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11175MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-8550U - Intel UHD 620 3072MB - Dell: Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 0H0VG3 (1.0.2 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4001GB 004-2CV104 + PM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 256GB, Graphics: Intel UHD 620 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC3271, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless OS: Fedora 28, Kernel: 4.17.3-200.fc28.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5, Compiler: GCC 8.1.1 20180502, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x4320 Intel Core i7-8700K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.50GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASRock Z370 Taichi (P1.20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 8th Gen Core, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 4001GB Western Digital WD40EFRX-68W + 8002GB Seagate ST8000VN0022-2EL + 1000GB Samsung SSD 960 EVO 1TB, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11175MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: BenQ LCD, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.17.6-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 396.24, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 8.1.1 20180531, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5280x2560 performance: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.50GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASRock Z370 Taichi (P1.20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 8th Gen Core, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 4001GB Western Digital WD40EFRX-68W + 8002GB Seagate ST8000VN0022-2EL + 1000GB Samsung SSD 960 EVO 1TB, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11175MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: BenQ LCD, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.17.6-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 396.24, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 8.1.1 20180531, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5280x2560 GNU Octave Benchmark 4.2.2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-8550U - Intel UHD 620 3072MB - Dell . 14.96 |==================== GNU Octave Benchmark 4.4.0 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-8700K - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti . 11.57 |================= performance .......................................... 11.47 |=================