2500K @ 4.5GHz vs 8600K OC?

[Kaiju]

I find stock 2500K vs 8600K benches but not the mighty 2500K overclocked vs the 8600K overclocked.

I'm looking for the differences in gaming, encoding and compression, so pretty much everything.

 

[Kaiju]

Thanks, I'm not disagreeing, I just want the numbers to back up your claims.

The real world differences are really that much?

 

[Kaiju]

Even my i5 [email protected] to i5 [email protected] was a great upgrade.

How much difference are we talking about using Windows?

you can see stock gaming figures where a 2500k is about 40-50 fps behind. at same res.

Thanks.

 

[Kaiju]

Right, so for gaming, huge upgrade, for general Windows usage, no difference.

What about compression and video encoding?

 

[Kaiju]

The encoding difference is much higher than the gaming improvement. For encoding you're looking at ~100% improvement in encoding speed or say twice as fast. This is going by R15 scores of ~580 of OC 2500k vs ~1200 8600K OC.

The gaming differences will be good though you need percentages, games and actual resolutions rather than somebody just quoting "40-50 fps behind"

That's perfect. So if you don't game and you don't mind half the speed of encoding, you are golden with a 2500K @4.5GHz.

 

[Kaiju]

Cheers guys.

 

[Kaiju]

You guys.

Let's put this to bed.

Gaming, get a 8600K depending on the game(s), resolution and amount of eye candy you want.

Encoding and compression, 8600K twice as fast.

Windows, desktop and browsing. Negligible difference.

I only play Starcraft 2 at 1080p, so more than happy with my GTX1050, 16GB of RAM and SSDs at the moment. Some new games at E3 peaked my interest recently though, namely Cyperpunk 2077, the new Doom and whenever the hell Star Citizen is released. Futureproofing and all that jazz.

I've also got a f' ton of family videos to sort. At some point during this thread's existence, I then realised the cost of a new CPU, mobo and RAM would be silly when I could just make a cuppa or play with my kids... or wife.

 

[Kaiju]

Interesting read, thanks.

Agree, the conclusion sums it up nicely.

Thanks.