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2600k to 4790k

Tee Hee Johnson

Tee Hee Johnson

Tee Hee Johnson

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I'm doing a wee upgrade, all bought cheap... So why not lol.

My 2600k is at 4.4ghz in an Asus z68 with 16gb 1866 ram.

The 4790k will be in an z97x with same ram etc.

Anybody like some quick benchmarks before I start disassembly?

Craig
 
Only use benchmarks as a rough guide. Most games will not push the CPU as hard as a benchmark.

In the real world I doubt you will see much improvement. Especially from 4.4ghz.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Lol, I read your OP wrong, I thought you was asking for a comparison to see if it was worth the swap :p

A before and after Cinebench comparison would be good.
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Ahh cool, done a wee cinebench r10 and r15.

realbench, pi, etc, etc.

Yeah, was just more to see if anyone wanted a wee benchmark ran for them, seems to be a very common question on these forums, 2600k to 4790k!
 
ubersonic said:
You will be hard pushed to notice any difference really.
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wazza300 said:
@ op,crazy....that's how it goes

keep current cpu

haha too late
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I know, I know, I know... and I expected all this :)

BUT it was more an offer to see if anyone wanted anything run before and after.

Board and chip only came to 250, well 255 including lunch lol. So I decided, why not. Will keep me going for many years to come!
 
Done it and burned it :) The same stuff new from here was 411... I'm happy enough with that!

Getting quite good results, yes I know they are synthetic... but they were quick lol
 
It's a pity the wasn't like an enthusiast version of SB you could upgrade to instead, if they made something like that, say with six cores you could have used that to feed your upgrade urge and really got more power/longevity out of the upgrade.
 
ubersonic said:
It's a pity the wasn't like an enthusiast version of SB you could upgrade to instead, if they made something like that, say with six cores you could have used that to feed your upgrade urge and really got more power/longevity out of the upgrade.
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True, but I guess I wont be doing an upgrade for a long time to come! Only had the 2600k since last year, I'm not exactly on the forefront of tech! Actually, this will be my most recent CPU ever :D
 
Done a few benchmarks before and after the swap.

Cinebench R15, no idea what happened on this multi core, more efficient?

2600k
608 multi core
157 single core

4790k
894 multicore +42%
174 single core +9.8%

Cinebench R10, good increase I guess

2600k
7438 single
26768 multi

4790k
8497 single +12.5
34552 multi +22.5

pi15mod, very similar

2600k
8.501

4790k
8.172 + 3.7%

Valley, big increase on minimum

2600k
avg 77.3
score 3234
min 28.5
max 176.9

4790k
avg 78.1 +1%
score 3266 +1%
min 36.6 +22%
max 179 +1.2%

Realbench, more nice increases... especially the time differences

2600k
118030
72.693

65812
182.154

100032
2577

60528
161.578

overall
66094

4790k
127139 +7.2%
67.485 -5.028 seconds, lower is better here

97155 +32.3%
123.39 -58.764 seconds

103313 +3.2%
2737 +5.8%

90655 +33%
107.881 -53.697 seconds

overall
83902 +21.2%

passmark, more synthetic benchmarks

2600k
cpu 4998

4790k
cpu 6170 +19%

3d mark

2600k
firestrike 11613
skydiver 27581
cloudgate 21589
ice storm 176359

4790k
firestrike 12600 +7.8%
skydiver 31649 +18.5%
cloudgate 30935 +30.2%
ice storm 177400 +0.6%

Overall, I find it quite interesting! (maybe I'm myself on this...!)

I guess when you think about it, I have jumped from 2nd Generation to 5th Generation, so all the wee 5-10% increases from generation to generation can sometimes be noticed depending on what you are doing.

Another brucey bonus is that my uni course has some visualization next year, so the extra abilities of the 4790k will be nice :)
 
It's a decent enough performance increase to warrant the upgrade IMO.

At the very least, you'll have the same clock (turbo, at least) without the need to overclock. If you are overclocking, you should be able to eek another 300-400Mhz out of the chip.

Do you mean virtualisation, rather than visualisation?
 
Bonjour said:
It's a decent enough performance increase to warrant the upgrade IMO.

At the very least, you'll have the same clock (turbo, at least) without the need to overclock. If you are overclocking, you should be able to eek another 300-400Mhz out of the chip.

Do you mean virtualisation, rather than visualisation?
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Haha yeah I do! Not a great start to that module! I blame my concentration being on the numbers for that error! :)
 
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