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Introduction
I upgraded my 2500K to a 4790K and tested 66 different games on a Titan whose results I wanted to share today. As usual, the settings used are the actual settings I play these games at.
If you see lower than expected scores (especially in older games), its because most tests have been designed to show the worst-case scenarios; regular gameplay will often run much faster.
Setup
· Intel i5 2500K.
· Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3.
· Intel i7 4790K.
· Asus Z97-K.
· GeForce Titan, driver 337.88.
· 16GB DDR3-1600.
· 128GB Samsung 830 (OS).
· 960GB Crucial M500 (games).
· 30" HP LP3065.
· X-Fi XtremeMusic.
· Seasonic X 560W.
· Fractal Arc R2.
· Windows 7 64 bit (SP1).
Everything was run at stock and hyper-threading was disabled on the 4790K. I disable HT because I have a large library of older titles that I frequently play, and it can cause issues with them.
The results portray average frames per second.
Results
Conclusion
Many games are clearly GPU bound at my settings so they experience little to no performance gain, but a few show significant performance improvements.
In particular, games based on the Serious 3.x engine (#12 and #47) show a higher than expected improvement. I checked repeatedly and the results were consistent, and I couldnt see any error on my part. The engine gets frequent patching through Steam so if I had to guess, Id suspect it supports AVX2 which the Sandy Bridge lacks. Either that or its extremely sensitive to L3 cache size.
I upgraded my 2500K to a 4790K and tested 66 different games on a Titan whose results I wanted to share today. As usual, the settings used are the actual settings I play these games at.
If you see lower than expected scores (especially in older games), its because most tests have been designed to show the worst-case scenarios; regular gameplay will often run much faster.
Setup
· Intel i5 2500K.
· Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3.
· Intel i7 4790K.
· Asus Z97-K.
· GeForce Titan, driver 337.88.
· 16GB DDR3-1600.
· 128GB Samsung 830 (OS).
· 960GB Crucial M500 (games).
· 30" HP LP3065.
· X-Fi XtremeMusic.
· Seasonic X 560W.
· Fractal Arc R2.
· Windows 7 64 bit (SP1).
Everything was run at stock and hyper-threading was disabled on the 4790K. I disable HT because I have a large library of older titles that I frequently play, and it can cause issues with them.
The results portray average frames per second.
Results
Conclusion
Many games are clearly GPU bound at my settings so they experience little to no performance gain, but a few show significant performance improvements.
In particular, games based on the Serious 3.x engine (#12 and #47) show a higher than expected improvement. I checked repeatedly and the results were consistent, and I couldnt see any error on my part. The engine gets frequent patching through Steam so if I had to guess, Id suspect it supports AVX2 which the Sandy Bridge lacks. Either that or its extremely sensitive to L3 cache size.