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 ESTTotal War: Attila
The Total War franchise moves on to Attila, another The Creative Assembly development, and is a stand-alone strategy title set in 395AD where the main story line lets the gamer take control of the leader of the Huns in order to conquer parts of the world. Graphically the game can render hundreds/thousands of units on screen at once, all with their individual actions and can put some of the big cards to task.
For low end graphics, we test at 720p with performance settings, recording the average frame rate. With mid and high range graphics, we test at 1080p with the quality setting. In both circumstances, unlimited video memory is enabled and the in-game scripted benchmark is used.
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silverblue - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
To be fair, even if Intel can't go any further with IPC on this architecture, extra clock speed for no extra power isn't such a bad thing. This was the optimisation step of the cadence anyway, so I don't get the hate.Lolimaster - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Normally the chips should be called 6780K or 6790K, intel forgot that you can increase the SKU number when models with higher clocks appears.Now it's the "new 7th gen".
silverblue - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
I agree about the naming, though perhaps they just wanted to set their newer models apart. A 6710K (or, indeed, a 6780K) wouldn't confuse most of us.Manch - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Its basically the same as NVidia and AMD rebadging GPU's. Now Intel is doing the same thing.silverblue - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
A true rebrand would do little if nothing at all for a higher number; Intel have at least made tweaks.fanofanand - Thursday, January 26, 2017 - link
Not true, with nearly every re-badge they have either increased VRAM capacity or speed, and/or increased clocks on the shaders. Re-badges suck but they have almost always offered at least tiny improvements, much like Kaby Lake.Thatguy97 - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
The hate is that this is a complacent IntelLolimaster - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
There's 0.00% IPC improvement.tvdang7 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Why didn't you compare the performance gap between generations like you guys do for the other reviews.lopri - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
AVX Offset? Why isn't that a cheat?