The Intel Core i5-7600K (91W) Review: The More Amenable Mainstream Performer
by Ian Cutress on January 3, 2017 12:01 PM ESTOffice Performance
The dynamics of CPU Turbo modes, both Intel and AMD, can cause concern during environments with a variable threaded workload. There is also an added issue of the motherboard remaining consistent, depending on how the motherboard manufacturer wants to add in their own boosting technologies over the ones that Intel would prefer they used. In order to remain consistent, we implement an OS-level unique high performance mode on all the CPUs we test which should override any motherboard manufacturer performance mode.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Dolphin Benchmark: link
Many emulators are often bound by single thread CPU performance, and general reports tended to suggest that Haswell provided a significant boost to emulator performance. This benchmark runs a Wii program that raytraces a complex 3D scene inside the Dolphin Wii emulator. Performance on this benchmark is a good proxy of the speed of Dolphin CPU emulation, which is an intensive single core task using most aspects of a CPU. Results are given in minutes, where the Wii itself scores 17.53 minutes.
Since a big uptick in emulator performance with Sandy Bridge, the Intel processor line has had a good run in Dolphin and that continues with Kaby Lake. This is shown with the Core i7-7600K coming above the i7-6700K and i7-4790K, both former leaders in this benchmark.
WinRAR 5.0.1: link
Our WinRAR test from 2013 is updated to the latest version of WinRAR at the start of 2014. We compress a set of 2867 files across 320 folders totaling 1.52 GB in size – 95% of these files are small typical website files, and the rest (90% of the size) are small 30 second 720p videos.
WinRAR is more geared towards a variable threaded environment but also memory speed. In the last of ‘which benchmarks benefit from hyperthreads’, WinRAR is in – almost every Core i5 takes a back seat to all the Core i7 parts. We see performance jumps moving from i3 to i5, and a smaller one from i5 to i7, but in the case of WinRAR it’s quite obvious that threads matter here.
3D Particle Movement v2
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins the day. This is the second variant of this benchmark, fixing for false sharing in the first version, and lending itself to better multithreaded performance.
3DPMv2 is still new, so we don’t have too many results for it so far – even to go and say that Kaby Lake is the only set of i5 processors it has been run on. 3DPMv2, like WinRAR, likes hyperthreads as well, so we see the Core i7-6700T sit above the i5-7600K despite the frequency difference. In a benchmark like this, the older AMD FX processors come into play and the FX-8370 knocks on the door of the i5.
SYSMark 2014
Engineered by BAPco (to which Intel is a consortium member), this set of tests are designed to be an office/data/media/financial range of tests using common well-known CAD, image editing, web browsing and other tools to put out a score, where a score of 1000 is attributed to an old Core i3 using a mechanical harddrive. Here we report the overall score, however the test breakdowns can be found in Bench.
Because SYSMark is a variety of tests that rely on response and throughput, the Core i5-7600K hits a good score in the middle of most of the previous generation extreme processors but also gives a good 5% on the previous generation i5-6600K.
Web Benchmarks
On the lower end processors, general usability is a big factor of experience, especially as we move into the HTML5 era of web browsing. For our web benchmarks, we take well known tests with Chrome as installed by SYSMark as a consistent browser.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1
Google Octane v2
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lopri - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
It's not Zen but it's their own chips of the past years. They even admit that the IPC is unchanged from Sky Lake, so the only way to sell this chip as something new is by jacking up the "official" clock frequency.Bullwinkle J Moose - Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - link
How is preventing anyone from securing their own computer an upgrade?How is limiting what you can do on your computer an upgrade?
It is now legal for the FBI to hack into ANY computer ANYWHERE as long as you are using Windows 7/8 or 10, but I can stop them with XP
So how is this an Upgrade?
Security trumps your definition of "upgrade"
Murloc - Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - link
they don't prevent you from using linux, BSD or even your own custom OS and securing your computer.jimbo2779 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
What does any of this or your other posts have anything to do with the processor reviewed.Can you go post this in a comment section about win vista - 10 so the rest of us aren't subjected to it.
This article is about a cup not Windows.
Thanks.
Bullwinkle J Moose - Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - link
because Windows XP IS Secure if you know what you're doing!and my Windows software IS compatible with Windows, not Linux
eldakka - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
And most software that requires windows XP and is on 10-year old hardware will run just fine under an emulation environment (e.g. wine) on Linux. Or even inside a Windows XP VM running on a linux host OS.Emulation is of course much slower than native, but running an emulator on current generation hardware will still be faster than running native on that 10-year old hardware.
That way you can get a modern operating system with support for modern hardware, without the windows 8/10 spyware, while still being able to run your old winXP apps.
But if you have no desire or need to get a modern OS, if you are happy with XP and the performance that you get on your current hardware, then why the hell are you even asking these questions and looking here? The only reason you'd be looking and asking these questions is if you are interested in upgrading.
Bullwinkle J Moose - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
you sound confused eldakkawhat exactly is your point of running a secure OS from within a spyware platform with backdoored bitlocker encryption, keylogger, DRM and Windows components you cannot block in your firewall ?
It is TRUE that Windows 10 is the most secure Version of Windows EVER, but Microsoft should finish the sentence.....
Windows 10 is the most secure Version of spyware EVER for the FBI and the NSA, but NOT the End Loser (er...user)
Funny how the Snowden Interview video disapeared from the Internet explaining how he could watch you as you type and edit your text at your computer BEFORE you send the message with your "secure" encrypted messaging app
Those backdoors are there for a reason.....To spy on and hack any "modern" Windows Computer in the World which is why MS had to kill XP and why the Law was changed to allow the FBI to hack ANY computers, anywhere with a single warrant (that went into affect December 1st)
The FBI could not do that if the back doors were closed, but you cannot close them on Windows 10
computers
But the REAL Trolls here won't discuss that now will they?
Dug - Thursday, January 19, 2017 - link
Because no one cares about your AWESOME Windows XP! Get of the Internets everyone!!!! OMG, Spy FBI CIA NSA HELPS ME!!!Really dude, you are awesome. Thanks for repeating the same crap over and over again and showing your real ignorance. If you really knew what you were doing, you wouldn't have to explain yourself.
Dug - Thursday, January 19, 2017 - link
And if you have SUPER SECRETS that you don't want anyone to know about, guess what?Don't go online? You do realize that just having any port open allows someone to see your packets. You really think your ISP is secure? Because once a packet leaves your house, it's not your network anymore.
If any of the mentioned entities really want information from you, they'll just come in and physically take it.
137ben - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
The most secure operating system is one which allows for no input and gives no output. At that point, it's not a computer.