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 ESTGrand Theft Auto V
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise finally hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA in tow to help optimize the title. GTA doesn’t provide graphical presets, but opens up the options to users and extends the boundaries by pushing even the hardest systems to the limit using Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine. Whether the user is flying high in the mountains with long draw distances or dealing with assorted trash in the city, when cranked up to maximum it creates stunning visuals but hard work for both the CPU and the GPU.
For our test we have scripted a version of the in-game benchmark, relying only on the final part which combines a flight scene along with an in-city drive-by followed by a tanker explosion. For low-end systems we test at 720p on the lowest settings, whereas mid and high-end graphics play at 1080p with very high settings across the board. We record both the average frame rate and the percentage of frames under 60 FPS (16.6ms).
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137ben - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Excellent review. This is why I love AnandTech.Thatguy97 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Best joke of the dayRatman6161 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
When you get around to a full blown overclocking test/review, I'm really hoping you will include the i3-7350K and not just the i7. Back in the day, it was all about buying a cheap CPU and making it perform like a more expensive one. Buying a top of the line i7 only to get a few hundred Mhz kind of takes the fun out of it.negusp - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
But the 7350k is an absolutely horrid CPU to test, when you can pick up an i5 for $15 more.We saw this with the G3528- 2 cores makes gaming absolutely shit.
evilpaul666 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Do the new Kaby Lake chips turbo on all cores to their max turbo speed? I've seen that reported one or two places.pavag - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Still on the same league than a decade old processor.AnnonymousCoward - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
1. The 2600K is only 5 years old.2. The 7700K is 50% faster.
silverblue - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
There is a 20% clock difference between the two, sure, but it's a fair point.fanofanand - Thursday, January 26, 2017 - link
That isn't even close to being true. A decade ago the Q6600 was the new quad core chip, and the 7700K blows that out of the water. Unless you mean beer leagues and major leagues are both the same because they have the word league in them.Vazilious - Saturday, January 7, 2017 - link
Why test a new CPU (an officially oc'ed skylake with a few more features) on years old hardware and software? R9 290x instead of an RX 480 and GTX 980 instead of a GTX 1080? Also why use windows 7? An OS where new CPUs are not supported.