1080p DX-11 Gaming Evaluation. That is the topic of my review.
First line in the review.
Im not trying to bench the CPU or the GPU. Im trying to show you what performance to expect when gaming at 1080p with a high end GPU paired with those three processors.
The scenario is simple. You have $500-550 to spend for the GPU. You buy the HD7970 and you have a 1080p 60Hz monitor. Does any of the three CPUs of the review will bottleneck your new High-End GPU in today's DX-11 games at 1080p ??? There are some Games that Intel CPUs are faster by a few fps and FX is faster in others but most of the DX-11 games are GPU limited.
Will Overclocking your CPU give you any substantial performance gains in today's DX-11 Games at 1080p ??? In some Games it will, in most of the others it will not because your GPU will dictate the performance limit.
Benching at 1024x768 will not give you any valuable data when you actually gaming at 1080p. Core i5 2500K may be 2x faster than FX at 1024x768 but at the resolution and with the IQ settings you are actually playing at (1080p) it doesn't matter because the game is GPU limited.
In the link in your sig. Why do you test the 8150 at 4.6Ghz and the 2500K at 4.0? Test them all at the same speeds or the testing is flawed and irrelevant.
I have explained before that i didnt have more time. I had to give the HD7970 back. Originally i was planing on benching the Core i5 2500K at default, 4GHz and 4.5GHz. But as you see from the gaming graphs most of the Games are GPU limited and so, the Core i5 at 4.5GHz or higher would not perform any higher than at 4GHz in the majority of the games.
1080p DX-11 Gaming Evaluation. That is the topic of my review.
First line in the review.
Im not trying to bench the CPU or the GPU. Im trying to show you what performance to expect when gaming at 1080p with a high end GPU paired with those three processors.
The scenario is simple. You have $500-550 to spend for the GPU. You buy the HD7970 and you have a 1080p 60Hz monitor. Does any of the three CPUs of the review will bottleneck your new High-End GPU in today's DX-11 games at 1080p ??? There are some Games that Intel CPUs are faster by a few fps and FX is faster in others but most of the DX-11 games are GPU limited.
Will Overclocking your CPU give you any substantial performance gains in today's DX-11 Games at 1080p ??? In some Games it will, in most of the others it will not because your GPU will dictate the performance limit.
Benching at 1024x768 will not give you any valuable data when you actually gaming at 1080p. Core i5 2500K may be 2x faster than FX at 1024x768 but at the resolution and with the IQ settings you are actually playing at (1080p) it doesn't matter because the game is GPU limited.
It's a topic for another thread but I'll answer anyway. It does in the fact that when you use vsync you're stuck at 60fps on a 60hz monitor. If you remove vsync you get screen tearing. With a 120hz monitor you can use vsync and go all the way to 120fps which is a lot better. 120hz monitors generally show motion at 60fps as a smoother video to your eye. Some people claim it's placebo but side by side I can tell. I'm going to upgrade to 120hz myself in the near future.
When testing CPUs and locking to 60hz you're limiting the CPU's ability to push framerate and lowering the load. Games like Battlefield 3 show extremely different characteristics when you remove the 60hz limit and turn vsync off. The CPU starts to have a hard time keeping up with the GPU as it's load goes up.
You want a GPU that you can get 3 years out of paired with the Bulldozer? That would be a GTX 680 but it will be heavily bottlenecked even if you overclock.yea that's true but i couldn't find a decent nvidia card that will last at least 3 years
It still shows that the 2500k is twice as fast as the Bulldozer in terms of gaming performance and it will last twice as long as well.Benching at 1024x768 will not give you any valuable data when you actually gaming at 1080p. Core i5 2500K may be 2x faster than FX at 1024x768 but at the resolution and with the IQ settings you are actually playing at (1080p) it doesn't matter because the game is GPU limited.
I'm staying out of this one.
Your overclock is weak. M0re volts
I had it at 4.8 for months, tuned it down to 4.5 and it made 0 difference to anything I do, turned it down to 4ghz to check voltages for someone who wanted help with their first overclock and it still made no difference.
What do you do then? just browse the internet? :\
What do you do then? just browse the internet? :\
yea that's true but i couldn't find a decent nvidia card that will last at least 3 years
Technology moves too fast these days. Cards are obsolete in a years time
Technology moves too fast these days. Cards are obsolete in a years time
It still shows that the 2500k is twice as fast as the Bulldozer in terms of gaming performance and it will last twice as long as well.
It's a useful theoretical benchmark that gives good insight into the potential of the processor.