Gaming and Synthetics on Processor Graphics

Intel's GT2 (HD 4600) design dominates most of the Haswell CPU lineup from i3 and up. The differentiator between the i3, i5 and i7 CPUs tends to be the IGP multiplier, which affords 1150 MHz to 1250 MHz depending on the exact SKU. The AMD APUs run away with the top places in most of our IGP tests, and it is pretty clear that overclocking the CPU has little-to-no affect at these quality settings.

F1 2013

CPU IGP, Average FPS, F1 2013

CPU IGP, Minimum FPS, F1 2013

Bioshock Infinite

CPU IGP, Average FPS, Bioshock Infinite

CPU IGP, Minimum FPS, Bioshock Infinite

Tomb Raider

CPU IGP, Average FPS, Tomb Raider

CPU IGP, Minimum FPS, Tomb Raider

Sleeping Dogs

CPU IGP, Average FPS, Sleeping Dogs

CPU IGP, Minimum FPS, Sleeping Dogs

Company of Heroes 2

CPU IGP, Average FPS, Company of Heroes 2

CPU IGP, Minimum FPS, Company of Heroes 2

CompuBench 1.5

CompuBench is a new addition to our CPU benchmark suite, and as such we have only tested it on the following processors.  The software uses OpenCL commands to process parallel information for a range of tests, and we use the flow management and particle simulation benchmarks here.

CPU IGP: CompuBench 1.5 Optical Flow

CompuBench 1.5 64k Particle Simulation

CPU IGP: CompuBench 1.5 64k Particle Simulation

3DMark Fire Strike

CPU IGP: 3DMark FireStrike

CPU Benchmarks Discrete GPU Gaming
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  • SeanJ76 - Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - link

    Hitting 4.7ghz@1.290Vcore with my 4690k and Msi Z97 Gaming 5 deck. I'm satisfied with that. My 2500k@5.0ghz is easily beaten by a mild overclocked 4690k(4.6ghz is when I started passing my 2500k scores in Firestrike and Valley Bench).
  • SeanJ76 - Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - link

    ^^That's 4.7ghz on air, and I didn't see temps above 52C!! I went with the Hyper Evo/Msi Z97 Gaming 5 deck.
  • Mark-Benney - Thursday, August 14, 2014 - link

    I have intel i5 4670k very nice chip good upgrade from i7 920, But in defence of the i7 920. It was well overclockable as long as you keep temp down came close to running it stable at double its base speed. The new i5 I have is not really stable much past 3.9mhz with overclock ram 16gb 2400mhz. But to this day no game including B4, Crisis 3 in ultra 1080 has slowed it , GPU GTX770 4gb
  • Mark-Benney - Thursday, August 14, 2014 - link

    I am thinking about getting the i7 4790k. But really do not think it would be worth wild. I think better wait 12month with system am running and hope for new chip from Intel 6-8core on 1150 would be very nice and worth wild upgrade
  • Damage125 - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - link

    This is my system build : MB : Msi Gaming 5 Z97 / Corsair 8 gb dual channel @2400 mHz / Downgrade to 1.600 Mhz (i want lower latency on memory ) , Cpu Cooler Scythe Mugen Max 100 Air cooling / 550 PSU Cooltek Bronze 85% + / Cooltek Case .
    Ambience Temp around 25-26 ( Living in romania and its kinda hot here ) This is the frequency that my i7 works now ''http://i58.tinypic.com/do6szo.png'' , look at the voltage :> 1.290 @4.8 Ghz ..the record i could push its 5.3 Ghz (But i`am limited cuz of my PSU i think i can get 5.5 ) On all Cores ..on the winter i plan to keep it at 5 Ghz Constantly ..but now on the summer 4.8 Its enough . And this is Screen is while i keep refresh F5 active . 2 cores Active @ Look this SHIT ..http://i60.tinypic.com/2po19o8.jpg Thats 5.6 GHZ on 2 Cores . Overwall Devil Canyon despite what haters say of SB...SB cant comper with Devil Canyon its much more better , In every category , its faster , cooler , more overclockable , Cheers
  • ZenithSal - Sunday, September 14, 2014 - link

    There is a reason why Larabee was a good concept, too bad intel killed it. Desktop processors based on the current architecture are getting stale and they have hit a dead end a while ago. Competition isn't helping either since AMD is trailing way back and their only advantages right now are lower prices and a unified socket.
    On the other hand GPUs are breaking performance grounds constantly driven by fierce competition yet very little of that power is tapped into.
    Software needs to adapt, the CPU must change its role to become merely a task scheduler and do simpler tasks while any expensive processing should run on the GPU.
    AMD realized that and developed HSA for their Kaveri architecture, too bad the raw processor performance is not up to par yet compared to intel and software isn't taking advantage of its heterogeneous features.
  • Dimetime35c - Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - link

    I have a question. Okay my i5 4690k has been able to OC to 4.8Ghz and passed 12+ hour stress testing. I am wondering if I've been pushing it further then I should be seeing as in your tests you BSOD at 4.8? I'm newish to overclocking and I'm worried that sense I'm newish I am not seeing the warning signs that my oc isn't stable and even though I'm running. In fact I'm slowly killing my cpu as I'm either under volting it or doing something else that someone that knows oc would see as not right.

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