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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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?