3DNews.ru: Gaming/Application results including Skylake i3 and Kaveri/Godavari

[myocardia]

Anyone else find it odd, that gamegpu doesnt have either Broadwell-C or Skylake for their dGPU reviews. Yet they somehow easily have 6700K and such, tho on H110 platform with APU reviews? Not to mention 2666Mhz memory for AMD, 2133 or lower for Intel. obsolete Intel drivers etc.

No, 'sponsored' tests are always conducted that way.

Seems like a sponsored event.

Fine, fine, call it an event.

 

[Sweepr]

http://gamegpu.com/rpg/роллевые/witcher-3-wild-hunt-blood-and-wine-test-gpu

2.5 GHz Core i7-6700K beating FX9590:

www.techspot.com/review/1180-overwatch-benchmarks/page5.html

ALL THESE RESULTS ARE FROM A 1080P RESOLUTION!!!!

The first GPU/CPU combo I used was...
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.3GHz (slightly OC'd)
R9 290 w/ 4GB

I was getting literally lackluster performance. On medium-high settings my FPS would hover around 40, then dip into the low 30's and even 20's during stack ups. Not even 20 x 20 fights, but really any unit fight where the unit size was large, or ultra. The Vampire Counts' tutorial battle was especially painful - with no shadows on, and mostly medium settings, moving the camera to the city walls would result in 20 FPS.

The second combo I used was...
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.4GHz (OC'd even more)
nVidia GTX 980 Ti

Slightly better but oh-my that bottleneck. I ran the game on mostly high settings, with AA, SSAO, reflections, and DoF disabled. Shadows on medium... I found that the ole' FX-8350 was holding back the 980 ti. I used MSI afterburner to check GPU vs CPU usage, and as you could guess - GPU usage never exceeded 60%, and CPU usage would fly between 70%-99%

Finally...
i7 6700k
nVidia GTX 980

After hours of replacing my MoBo, and CPU - I got my i7 build functional. ALL settings turned to ultra, EXCEPT shadows (at high), and AA is set to MLAA. SSAO is enabled, and unit size is ultra.

I pull easily 50-60FPS in non-siege battles, about 40-60FPS in sieges, and rarely 30-35FPS in ultra unit stack ups.

I'm stunned by how much a difference it made to replace my CPU and bump up to an i7. I used to think the 8350 was beefy sauce, but now I'll never look back.

https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/176160/intel-amd-oh-yes-potential-buyers-please-read

 

[dark zero]

Err... wrong topic lol... here is about iGPUs! Not adding dGPUs...

 

[IllogicalGlory]

2.5 GHz Core i7-6700K beating FX9590:

FX-4320 beating i3-6100.

 

[frozentundra123456]

FX-4320 beating i3-6100.

Those results look incorrect. It is also as fast as 6350 and 8370. Makes no sense.

 

[IllogicalGlory]

Those results look incorrect. It is also as fast as 6350 and 8370. Makes no sense.

Looks like nothing happens on the AMD side at or above 2M and it's all just clock speed. Still, scales past 4T on the Intel side so who knows?

 

[Sweepr]

Latest Frostbite game, Mirror's Edge Catalyst:

 

[zentan]

Still none of i7 6700k,4790k,5775C or any skylake i3/i5 present.

 

[Sweepr]

The Technomancer - GameGPU

 

[Sweepr]

 

[frozentundra123456]

Those are strange results. Haswell is 1.5x to almost twice as fast as Sandy Bridge. Is there some new instruction set being used that SB does not have?