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.
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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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sjkpublic@gmail.com - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Yes. There is an issue with power consumption. And that is a lead into the real story. Intel has been at 14nm for 3 years now. Historically that time frame is unheard of. Some may say the complexity of the Intel CPU die is partly to blame. Some may say it is no wonder that Apple went to M1. Everyone will say Intel has dropped the ball.DieselPunk - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
Wow, here's a shock. Modern games get very little difference from CPUs as they are all GPU bound. And a good high end GPU is going to burn far more coal than a CPU ever will.As a gamer, WTF do I care about CPU power usage for? When I run out of coal there is still lots of gasoline 😎
headmaster - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
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yankeeDDL - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
Is it fair to say that the 10700 is on par (at best) or slower (in most multi-threaded scenarios) than the Ryzen 5600X, despite using roughly 2X the power?Makste - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
Put the number of cores into consideration as another factor, and then come up with your own conclusion.HarkPtooie - Sunday, January 24, 2021 - link
I registered just to post this: you're nuts.I just measured my "65W" i7-10700 non-K while stress testing it, and it eats 165 W at the wall plug. 64GB RAM, good quality Corsair 450W PSU.
Then I compared to to my "65W" Ryzen 3700X, 32GB RAM = 157 W. That one has an expensive fanless Seasonic 500W PSU which nominally better efficiency at these power draw levels.
So the difference is 10W and may as well be attributed to PSU quality, RAM consumption and whatnot.
If you are going to make wild speculations whose veracity anyone can check, you might want to go over your material a bit better.
Smell This - Sunday, January 24, 2021 - link
LOL
mmm ... Let me see.
Three feature writers at AT versus some 'anecdotal' FUD-peddling troll on the Internet. The Universe will make the call.
The 65w 8c/16t AMD Ryzen 3700X, fully loaded, pulls 90w. There is also a fancy multi-colored chart for you!
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14605/the-and-ryzen...
The i7-10700, in this article, pulls 197w to 214w. Ooops.
Psssst ___ By the way, my local MicroCenter (Duluth) offers the AMD Ryzen 3700X at $299 after $30 off, and the i7-10700 for $280 after $120 off. My-my-my, how the mighty has fallen . . .
HarkPtooie - Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - link
So you are saying that their wattmeters are right and mine is wrong because... appeal to authority?It may be that my Ryzen draws 90 W, but from the looks of it, the i7 is not far off. 10 more watts, not 130.
The universe will indeed make the call.
Spunjji - Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - link
Plausible explanations for the discrepancy, in order of likelihood:1) The unspecified stress test you're using isn't actually stressing the 10700 very heavily.
2) You're not measuring like-for-like in some other way - be it components or configuration.
3) Your wattmeter is poorly calibrated (This level would be a reach).
4) You're simply not being honest (I don't like to assume this, but you seem aggressive about people questioning your implausible conclusions).
Implausible explanations:
1) Every review on the internet performed with calibrated equipment, specified configurations and specified software loads is somehow wrong and you are right.
Everett F Sargent - Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - link
I'll go as far as requiring/requesting/asking for their MB model (an exact model number and manufacturer thereof). Without that one key piece of information, I have concluded the following: Using a Z490 or other relatively high end LGA 1200 MB indicates that the i7-10700 will run at or significantly above 200W in continuous 247 operation.Remember this user claims to be using a 450W PSU, so very likely not a Z490 MB, so indicative of a rather low end system (e. g. no medium to high end GPU, not that that matters as these are essentially CPU tests unless stated otherwise in this review).
I believe their power number but I don't believe that they are testing on a medium to high end LGA 1200 MB. In other words it is all about the MB default settings for PL1, PL2 and Tau and not the CPU itself.