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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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.