Intel Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-10700K Review: Is 65W Comet Lake an Option?
by Dr. Ian Cutress on January 21, 2021 10:30 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Core i7
- Z490
- 10th Gen Core
- Comet Lake
- i7-10700K
- i7-10700
Gaming Tests: Strange Brigade
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt, and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen, who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark as an on-rails experience through the game. For quality, the game offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. Strange Brigade supports Vulkan and DX12, and so we test on both.
- 720p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Ultra
The automation for Strange Brigade is one of the easiest in our suite – the settings and quality can be changed by pre-prepared .ini files, and the benchmark is called via the command line. The output includes all the frame time data.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Spunjji - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
You can infer temperature from wattage more accurately than via a temperature measurement, because that measurement depends on the configuration of the test system (cooler type, fan speeds, case airflow).Hxx - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
thats not true because its not proportional with power draw. A 10700k uses 200+W and runs at around 70C while a 5600x uses much less power running at around the same temps. Power draw is not a good indicator and yes it comes down to your setup. Intel is just not as efficient but doesnt make it a hot chip.Oxford Guy - Sunday, January 24, 2021 - link
Yes, it does. That heat doesn't vanish into thin air. It exists.Spunjji - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
"A 10700k uses 200+W and runs at around 70C"Again, with what cooler and fan speeds? Even accounting for the different die sizes, the only way this comparison can really be true is if there isn't an equal amount of cooling between the two processors. As OxfordGuy said, that heat has to go *somewhere*; for the temperatures to be the same between different heat loads *something* must be causing more heat to be dissipated.
vegemeister - Sunday, January 24, 2021 - link
No. IIRC all of the K variants have soldered IHS and shaved down dies. Not all of the non-K products do.Spunjji - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
That's a point I had forgotten, and a fair one - but temps in a review still won't tell an end-user much about the temps they'll get, especially as variability can be quite high depending on the voltage an individual CPU requires to operate at its various speeds.dsplover - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Nobody wants Intel until they ditch 14nm. I love Intel, but I’m getting their next CPU, as well as a desktop AMD 5000 w/APU.Seems they survived their diversity exercises and are back in the game, but not until 2022.
Until then a few 4790k’s are still paying me.
Spunjji - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
"Seems they survived their diversity exercises"Intel are doing badly, it MUST be because they stopped almost exclusively hiring white men! /s
Motivated reasoning is a disease.
Hixbot - Saturday, February 13, 2021 - link
Wow, you're really pinning Intel's faults on diversity? Meanwhile you are ignoring AMDs success is lead by an Asian American woman? You really need to check your bigotry at the door.Oxford Guy - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
‘Specifically on the sha256 tests, both AMD and Via pull out a lead due to a dedicated sha256 compute block in each core.’VIA, eh?