3700x never boost at 4.4Ghz in games.Its more like 4200-4300mhz.Great work, about the results I expected. The 4.5Ghz vs 4.4Ghz boost, about the same where it's not using the extra threads. But now you have twice the threads and cores moving forward.
Nope 6700k have 99fps and 3700x 88fps
3700x never boost at 4.4Ghz in games.Its more like 4200-4300mhz.
4 years ago.Nice review that compares a very popular Intel cpu from 3 years ago to a current AMD cpu.
I already sold 6700kThanks for the review.
Could you measure total power consumption for both systems in each game ??
I already sold 6700k
I dont use in game benchmarks.Only far cry games and war thunder are tested with in game benchmark.I was going to compare my R5 3600 and RX 5700 to some of your game results, but unsure of what settings you used in game. I know I have the two Tomb Raider games in my steam library at least. I'll have to check on others I might have.
CPU g = CPU game
CPU r = CPU render
Fps | CPU g | CPU r | GPU
Min | 110 | 72 | 129
Max | 248 | 393 | 348
Avg | 169 | 127 | 172
95% | 124 | 75 | 139Had my 6700k @ 4.7Ghz since the 6th of August, 2015. Sad to see that 4 years later there are only minor improvements for gaming.
My next upgrade will likely be a 8C16T Icelake, assuming it has the 15% IPC gain and 10nm can clock to 4.5Ghz+.
If Icelake doesn't come to desktop, the next generation after that will. Intel will not use the Skylake architecture forever! It can safely be assumed from my quote, that I mean the next desktop CPU from Intel that has an architecture different from Skylake, whether that be Icelake, Heatlake, Tumbleweed-Lake, etc
Intel is in a good spot, ipc-wise, if the ICELAKE IPC is really this strong.I think it is on the software side.
Anyone starting to develop a game 4 years ago was either targetting PS4/XBOX One CPUs or 4c/4t and 4c/8t desktop CPUs.
I'm pretty sure Zen2 IPC is higher than Coffeelake overall but when the software doesn't use all the resources avaiable (like in gaming) the faster clock of the Coffeelake more than makes up for it.
The problem is that while you can make the architecture wider (Icelake/Zen2), getting the clocks to the same speeds on these smaller nodes doesn't seem an easy task.
So Icelake seems to be in a similar scenario as Zen2 vs Coffelake - higher IPC but lower clocks mean performance is not that muich higher or even lower in light tasks.
It will be an interesting couple of years.
Because a CPU that they have not even released yet, is "as strong" as a 3900x on single core ? I would say they are behind. By the time we see it, who knows what AMD may have.(in the laptop/mobile section.)Intel is in a good spot, ipc-wise, if the ICELAKE IPC is really this strong.
Better grab a chair and sit while waiting.Had my 6700k @ 4.7Ghz since the 6th of August, 2015. Sad to see that 4 years later there are only minor improvements for gaming.
My next upgrade will likely be a 8C16T Icelake, assuming it has the 15% IPC gain and 10nm can clock to 4.5Ghz+.
If Icelake doesn't come to desktop, the next generation after that will. Intel will not use the Skylake architecture forever! It can safely be assumed from my quote, that I mean the next desktop CPU from Intel that has an architecture different from Skylake, whether that be Icelake, Heatlake, Tumbleweed-Lake, etc
Better grab a chair and sit while waiting.
10nm only for mobile and server cpu's.
Really new Intel desktop cpu only with 7nm and that will be in 2022.
7nm production will start in 2021 but only for new gpu's and server cpu's.
Meanwhile AMD will have Zen3/Ryzen4000 in 2020 @ 7nm+ and Zen 4/Ryzen 5000@ 5nm in 2021.
And both are Skylake IPC too.Both Comet and Rocket are 14nm.
And both are Skylake IPC too.
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