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 ESTGRID Autosport
No graphics tests are complete without some input from Codemasters and the EGO engine, which means for this round of testing we point towards GRID: Autosport, the next iteration in the GRID and racing genre. As with our previous racing testing, each update to the engine aims to add in effects, reflections, detail and realism, with Codemasters making ‘authenticity’ a main focal point for this version.
GRID’s benchmark mode is very flexible, and as a result we created a test race using a shortened version of the Red Bull Ring with twelve cars doing two laps. The car is focus starts last and is quite fast, but usually finishes second or third. For low-end graphics we test at 1080p medium settings, whereas mid and high-end graphics get the full 1080p maximum. Both the average and minimum frame rates are recorded.
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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?