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: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
The benchmark tool comes with a number of presets:
- 768p Minimum, 1080p Standard, 1080p Max, 4K Max (not a preset)
The odd one out is the 4K Max preset, because the benchmark doesn’t automatically have a 4K option – to get this we edit the acceptable resolutions ini file, and then we can select 4K. The benchmark outputs its own results file, with frame times, making it very easy to parse the data needed for average and percentiles.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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flyingpants265 - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Right. I'm not even sure why this is an issue. TDP stands for "thermal design power", it's how much power the chip uses, it's not debatable.etal2 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
What I'm missing from this review is a benchmark running under intels recommended settings.From what I've seen often people see the 65w rating and go on to combine the i7-10700 with cheap B460/H470 motherboards and basic coolers.
Duraz0rz - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
The problem here is that the turbo limit is not enforced by the chip, but by the mobo. So even cheap B460/H470 boards can set that limit to be higher than Intel's recommendations if they choose to. And no one that would be buying these boards will necessarily care to dig into the BIOS and set the limits themselves.Cygni - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
Yes, they would. There are lots of (admittedly niche) applications where outright sustained performance is less important that bursty performance in a limited thermal envelope, either due to space or ventilations issues. HTPCs, home servers, small industry applications, etcSo yeah, i agree with the OP, I would have liked to have seen performance numbers at the "suggested" 65w PL1.
Calin - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
I totally agree with your comment, but what you ask for is a different article.Performance numbers in a strictly power limited environment - from Intel and AMD both (although Intel will be unfairly penalized by being three or so lithography generations behind).
Spunjji - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
"unfairly penalized"The product you test is the product they have on sale - that's not unfair in the context of a test designed to represent a specific real-world requirement.
olde94 - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
yeah i never heard anyone saing that amd was "unfairly penalized" in 2015. they could just "suck it up"Spunjji - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
To be fair, some people did (GloFo's 28nm is terrible, I don't care about power, etc.) and I had no time for them either.