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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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