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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magreen - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Man Spunji, you are diligent. I was just going to ignore the obvious trollSpunjji - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
It's a sensible policy - I just like debunking FUD 👍bji - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
Ryzen 5 5600x at $299 is a lie right now than and has been for months. It's slowly coming down to $399 with general availability. It will be months before it's actually available at $299.Please no one respond with stories of one-off deals that they happened to get from some rare and hard to find vendor, where the deal was only available for 10 minutes anyway.
The simple fact is that no Ryzen 3 processors have had general availability at anywhere near MSRP for months.
Golgatha777 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
I've personally purchased 2 5600X and 1 5800X for MSRP at Micro Center?bji - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
Micro Center is not "general availability" given that it's only accessible to a few million people who happen to be within driving distance of one of their stores so, you fail.silverblue - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
Well... one stockist (OCUK) in the UK has had the 5600X at £279 for at least the past 24 hours, whereas the average on Google seems to be about £310 to £320. Your mileage may obviously vary, I suppose.bji - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
The US MSRP is $299 which is 218 British Pounds. So the numbers you quote indicate a significant reseller mark-up which makes my point. So thanks for agreeing with me.I wouldn't mind paying AMD a fair price ($399 apparently) for a 5600X, but I will NOT give $100 or more to scalpers. AMD will use my money to make me more of what I want (faster chips). Scalpers will use my money to just scalp me harder in the future. I will never buy a scalped product.
And so I continue to wait and wait to build a 5600X/RTX3080 gaming PC ... been waiting for months now ...
Calin - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
I think the UK price indicate about 20% of Value Added Tax - which is paid directly at the moment of sale. If I remember correctly, US prices do not contain "State Tax" and the like.silverblue - Sunday, January 24, 2021 - link
Exactly. Aside of any delivery costs from retailer to customer, we pay what's written on the price tag. That $299 isn't looking so cheap now. Funnily, the current conversion from dollars to pounds means a near 1:1 for comparison.jimbo2779 - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Everything is more expensive in the UK. Our MSRP is different to yours because of import duties. MSRP is still MSRP just that our MSRP is different from your MSRP.We would not be expecting to be paying US pricing just as we wouldn't expect to pay the going rate in Australia, that is the case for every saleable item.