Devil’s Canyon Review: Intel Core i7-4790K and i5-4690K
by Ian Cutress on July 11, 2014 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Haswell
- i7
- Overclocking
- Devil's Canyon
- i5
- 4790K
- 4690K
Discrete GPU Gaming
When comparing CPUs to APUs, one strength shown by team Blue in the past is the discrete GPU performance. However even when using dual graphics cards at a 1920x1080p resolution, we seem to have hit a wall where extra CPU performance does not necessarily translate to more frames per second. Our results below show little difference between the Haswell processors, and we need to go down to a 2.0 GHz i7 or a 3.5 GHz i3 CPU to see a significant drop in frame rates. The biggest benefit from overclocking seems to be F1 2013 minimum frame rates.
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FlushedBubblyJock - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
Raising 2500K hand acquired near release.4.8 oc from the motherboards auto setting no sweat.
Saw that and never tried anything higher as I figured the chip is golden to me.
It's been an extreme pleasure to never worry about the system being bogged down to a page turning crawl, which prior to SB was always a possibility, for years, on anything and everything.
Chaser - Monday, December 29, 2014 - link
I'm at 4.4 with my 2600K just with simple MB automated O/Cing. /raiseDanNeely - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
What did you use as cooling for the tests? A stock cooler or something aftermarket?Stuka87 - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
I was wondering the same thing. I did not see it mentioned, unless I just missed it.MooseMuffin - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
He mentions a Corsair H80i in the overclocking section.DanNeely - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
Thanks, I was expecting to see it on the overclocking page itself instead of in the first page's intro/summary information.Ian Cutress - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
Corsair H80i in a push-pull configuration.bill5 - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
kind of surprising how well the 8350 holds up in some of these tests, given it's age and price. granted, in some tests it's nearly doubled, but in others it's surprisingly competitive.if amd ever gets anything going at all they'll give intel a run. intel performance has been stagnant for ages.
DrMrLordX - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
Forget the 8350. Go A10-7850K! Anywhere OpenCL shows up, it kicks butt at its price point. You can get one off the Egg for around $180 now. And that's just OpenCL. HSA where are you?To me, the results where the 7850K wins are clear indications of what could come to pass once OpenCL and other GPU compute options become more mainstream. Anyone writing software would have to be insane not to look at the advantages offered by Kaveri (and Carrizo, and Skylake).
sr1030nx - Saturday, July 12, 2014 - link
I'm glad to see opencl and hsa coming along, there's a good chance they'll make AMD relevant in higher end computing.