The release of the Kaby Lake processors have sparked interesting battles across the site. Thanks to its superior clock frequency abilities compared to its Skylake counterpart, the i7 7700K is taking the top spots in a lot of rankings. One of those rankings is the Cinebench R15 4xCPU leaderboard. We pulled the top scores from 2017 and 2016 and found that in the month of January alone the Global First Place has been taken more times than in the entire 2016!

The current leader is Smoke from Russia with a CPU that can clock slightly over 6.8 GHz. Rtsurfer from the USA is the only person to have sit on the throne more than once this month.

All this points to a possible very interesting February ahead. I can't wait!

Update: Rtsurfer takes back the lead on February 1st! Ikki takes it on February 2nd!

Cinebench R15 Quad Core Global First Place Timeline
Date	Score	Overclocker		CPU		Memory	Motherboard
4 Feb 2017	1546		Hideo	Core i7 7700K	6848 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-3896 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus VIII Hero
2 Feb 2017	1544		Splave	Core i7 7700K	6818 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-4068 C12-12-12-28	ASRock Z170M OC Formula
1 Feb 2017	1540		Rtsurfer	Core i7 7700K	6800 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-4000 C12-12-12-28
31 Jan 2017	1539		Smoke	Core i7 7700K	6806 MHz	HyperX DDR4-4004 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus IX Apex
29 Jan 2017	1538		Rtsurfer	Core i7 7700K	6821 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-4068 C12-11-11-28
22 Jan 2017	1532		Splave	Core i7 7700K	6779 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-4068 C12-11-11-28	ASRock Z170M OC Formula
21 Jan 2017	1526		Hideo	Core i7 7700K	6801 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-3924 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus VIII Hero
18 Jan 2017	1517		8 Pack	Core i7 7700K	6800 MHz	GALAX DDR4-4004 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus IX Apex
13 Jan 2017	1516		Rtsurfer	Core i7 7700K	6776 MHz	DDR4-4042 C12-11-11-28
03 Jan 2017	1515		Der8auer	Core i7 7700K	6771 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-4116 C12-11-11-28	ROG Maximus IX Apex
02 Jan 2017	1502		BenchBros	Core i7 7700K	6760 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-3864 C12-11-11-28	MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium
23 Dec 2016	1488		Alex@ro	Core i7 6700K	6650 MHz	GALAX DDR4-4084 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus VIII Impact
18 Dec 2016	1483		Dancop	Core i7 6700K	6615 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-2070 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus VIII Impact
23 Sep 2016	1480		Dancop	Core i7 6700K	6641 MHz	GALAX DDR4-4084 C12-12-12-28
1 Aug 2016	1459		Sofos1990	Core i7 6700K	6585 MHz	DDR4-4038 C12-12-12-28	GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force LN2
11 Mar 2016	1450		Xtreme Addict	Core i7 6700K	6528 MHz	Corsair DDR4-3670 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus VIII Extreme
31 Jan 2016	1434		Rsannino	Core i7 6700K	6512 MHz	DDR4-3604 C11-17-17-30	ROG Maximus VIII Gene
30 Jan 2016	1425		Hideo	Core i7 6700K	6400 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-3658 C11-18-18-28	ROG Maximus VIII Hero
19 Dec 2015	1424		Dancop	Core i7 6700K	6375 MHz	G.SKILL DDR4-3642 C12-12-12-28	ROG Maximus VIII Gene