The Intel Core i7-7700K (91W) Review: The New Out-of-the-box Performance Champion
by Ian Cutress on January 3, 2017 12:02 PM ESTAlien: Isolation
If first person survival mixed with horror is your sort of thing, then Alien: Isolation, based off of the Alien franchise, should be an interesting title. Developed by The Creative Assembly and released in October 2014, Alien: Isolation has won numerous awards from Game Of The Year to several top 10s/25s and Best Horror titles, ratcheting up over a million sales by February 2015. Alien: Isolation uses a custom built engine which includes dynamic sound effects and should be fully multi-core enabled.
In al of our testing, aside from a couple of scores falling at the bottom depending on the CPU/GPU combo, all the CPUs perform similarly.
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HardwareDufus - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
This is exactly what I was thinking. Why didn't they add the eDRAM to this K-Series chip. Maybe we will see another higher clocked variant with Iris Pro.... I would buy that. Meanwhile, I'll keep using my I7-3700K CPU.Vash63 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
It's mentioned in the article that Linux doesn't support Speedshift. That seems to be at odds with the p-state driver documentation on kernel.org:https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/...
"If the processor is capable of selecting its next P-State internally, then the driver will offload this
responsibility to the processor (aka HWP: Hardware P-States). If not, the driver implements algorithms to select the next P-State."
Looks like they call it HWP instead of 'Speedshift', marketing names don't often make it into the kernel. This was added in Nov 2014: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5246361/
oranos - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
so basically if you have a 6700k you good to goBrokenCrayons - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Or anything as old as a 2500K apparently as long as you don't have a need for some of the features included on more modern motherboards. Honestly, the last six or so years have been pretty dull ones for x86 processors.iwod - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
To American viewers, ( which i expect many would be on Anandtech ), and dont know who Jerermy Clarkson is, He is a former host of UK BBC's Car / Motoring Show "Top Gear", and current host of Amazon's The Grand Tour.And in case you dont know the show, you should watch it :P
P.S - Why specifically American? Because Top gear is the world most watched TV shows ( Non-Drama ) and it is popular is everywhere in the world EXCEPT America.
stardude82 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
...Except it's been canceled. I hear you can watch some blowhard prattle on about rich boy toys on this little American website called Amazon.com.stardude82 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Oh wait... The was a British version?Manch - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
What are you on about? Top Gear was quite popular in the states among gearheads and their ilk. So popular, they made a US version which sucks.fanofanand - Thursday, January 26, 2017 - link
Manch is correct. Americans "in the know" about car stuff all know about and revere Top Gear. The American version was awful, and I haven't watched the Amazon version but heard the first episode was impressive, the others not so much. I like Jeremy Clarkson but the other two hosts made the show, IMO.iwod - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
So the i7700K gets you 8% more clock speed for the same power usage. And you get roughly 10% more performance due to clock speed and slight IPC improvement.