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.
AnandTech | Low Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Low Quality |
High Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Max Quality |
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95th Percentile |
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Samus - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
I don't think ANYONE actually wants to see the numbers for these chips at 65W :)Spunjji - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
I love a good laugh!iAPX - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
I totally agree, a 5600X and a 10700 on their 65W TDP, and their maximum performance, to gives a baseline of what performance-level is WARRANTED by their makers.etal2 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
Setting the limits in the bios is very nice and all but without the voltage regulation and thermal capacity they can not sustain this performance for very long regardless of the numbers set.I very much doubt that on the 60$ cheap 4 phase vrm boards the manufacturers set the limits very high, they will get fried boards within the warranty period and we know very well they can't have that.
Spunjji - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
That would be nice to see. Perhaps an article showing which of a representative selection of processors provide the best performance at a given set of fairly common power levels (65W / 95W / 125W).Something for when Dr Cutress finds himself with infinite time and no impending deadlines 😅
u.of.ipod - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
So happy I waited patiently and got a Ryzen 5600x for my small form factor system. The fact it can hang with the i7's and only consumes 1/3 the peak power draw is great for heat output and playing nicely with SFX PSUs.Golgatha777 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
And that's how you end up with graphs like this one.https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/i9W8M8HgGaTqRs4b...
Spunjji - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Oof.Samus - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Oof.magreen - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition all over again