7 years of i5 benchmarked!

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Yeah, I wish I could stick with my i5 2500K for the foreseeable future but that Fallout 4 bench says nope.

 

[Majcric]

Wrong games/test scenes.Their results are wierd.When i tested 2500k vs 6700k HT off skylake have around 35% IPC gain average.
Either they uses slow crap DDR4 on skylake or they dont know how to test cpu.
SKylake just need 3000+ DDR4 minimum to perform good.I find that 3000mhz DDR4 CL14 1T bottlenecking 6700k.

Just example:Final fantasy 14 benchmark

6700K 4.7Ghz 2133Mhz DDR4

6700K 4Ghz 3000Mhz DDR4

Yep 6700K at 4Ghz with 3000Mhz DDR4 is faster than 4.7Ghz with slow ram.So to not be bottleneck in this MMO skylake need i think 4000Mhz DDR4.

And here some my own test:
Crysis3
2500k 4.5Ghz

6700k 4.5Ghz HT OFF

6700k with HT off is here in this scene 37% faster

I'm in full agreement. I also have noticed substantial gain coming from an i52500k@4.5 to an i76700k@4.5. (Even with hyperthreading off)

4 games off the top of my head are Watch Dogs, Batman Arkam Knight, Witcher 3 and Crysis 3. Getting to see those gains with your own eyes is nice. This is @ 1440p.


For example, in Watch dogs with my i5 2500k @4.5 would have dips in 30's, while the i7 6700k@4.5 (hyperthreading on or off) never drops below 60. This is with a 980ti.

 

[moonbogg]

Nice video. At the start of it you can click the link to the same test with i7's. I watched that one and its great as well. The newer CPU's are good for games that are poorly threaded it seems, which makes sense. Mostly though it doesn't matter much. I think everyone should have a nice 8 core skylake i7 @ 4.6ghz. That sounds like a good, well rounded CPU.

 

[lehtv]

Except the title makes no claims in relation to the exact launch dates, but rather the extent of time i5 has been around, hence the "7 years of i5 Goodness!".

Sure. It's still a little bit dishonest though, since it hasn't actually been around for 7 years yet. It's like a celebrating your birthday three months before your actual birthday. A true 7 years comparison would include the upcoming Kaby Lake as well.

I can't quite understand why you find this so disturbing.

I don't find it disturbing, and I've no idea why you'd think that. Do you honestly think I seem disturbed?

 

[DooKey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxGge0tR4IM

A really great video, going back to LF i5s to modern Skylake.

Not really a surprise for most, the gains are very minimal at normal gameplay settings/resolutions. Even minimum FPS.

Basically if you still rock a SB i5-2500K, at 4Ghz (SB OC much higher than that!) it's capable of pushing modern graphics cards in most games just fine.

Gaming wise there haven't been SIGNIFICANT gains based on cpu performance the last few generations. However, for those of us that use cpu's for more than gaming I'm glad to see every single percent of improvement. Would I like to see more........YES. Zen might drive Intel to push a little harder, but I doubt it. I guess moar cores is all I can hope for.....at a decent price. Forget 1.5K plus for 10 cores. I can buy stuff for cheaper than that with more cores............my distributed computing bug costs me money.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

Love how broadwell comes out on top! The L4 cache is no joke I just wish the chips could OC better, 4.2/4.3GHz is the practical limit.

 

[daveybrat]

"The Lynnfield i5 really bombed out on this test...", yeah, 55fps minimum is really "bombing out"... "fell behind", maybe.



Hmm, that's a point. Since I upgraded from a Ph2 960T to an i5 4690k I haven't tried an SC2 map that absolutely brought my 960T system to its knees (at times I was getting a new frame about every three seconds).

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As a side note, I've never heard of "cache" being pronounced as "kayche"...

Wow, you did the exact same upgrade as me. I too upgraded from a PhenomII 960T to an i5 4690K and it was night and day difference. I won't need to upgrade for a long time. Even my old 960T is still rocking in my secondary system for older games.

Next upgrade will be a Pascal card for me.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Interesting results for GTA V,one of the titles i play the most of.I got a i5 2500 non k stuck at 3.4Ghz so would it be fair to assume my results fall in the Lynfield 4Ghz area at best?

Would love some 1440p Crossfire and sli results with 980/390x type cards.Guess any single card obviously will not be enough for 1440p but how about 2?Any chances of bottlenecking with stock i5/i7 chips?

More then happy with my i5 2500 non k,matched with any single card i guess i won't have to worry about my cpu at 1440p until after Pascal unless its a title that demands a i7?

 

[ShintaiDK]

I would hate it if I still had my i7 860, OC or not. Even my stock 6700K could use a little more grunt now and then. If it was just clocked at 5Ghz...