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Benchmarks - help please

jpod

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My question is when you're looking at i5 gaming performance at regular resolutions e.g. 1900x1200, or i7/higher resolutions what benchmarks are meaning full indicators of 'real life' performance.

This is to help interpret say Anandtech Bench
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

Or Toms hardware type figures when comparing CPU's and GPU's
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/

What do you recommend to benchmark your own rig? 3dMark?

Ta pod
 
Erm, not really sure what you're asking, most (incl Anandtech) CPU benchmarks for gaming run their tests at minimum resolution to highlight CPU differences, if you compare say i5 2500K and i7 2600K on Anand youll see next to no difference, if you compare say i5 2500 and Athlon x2 then youll see a large difference, but as said this will be using a top end gfx card running at low resolution to try and highlight CPU difference, however as your question refers to real life performance differences, its safe to say 2 similar performing CPUs will be identical as 99% of games are going to be GPU bound rather than CPU bound
 
Erm, not really sure what you're asking

Lol, thanks for the reply. What I mean is do you look at the following in relation to GFX performance
DirectX 10
DirectX11
GPU compute
Tesselation
DirectX 9
3d mark
And so on
.
.

What are the more meaningful benchmarks for me as a noob to look at?!

Does that make more sense?
 
The only important benchmarks are in the games you like playing...to put it very very simply FPS games seem to drive graphics forward at the moment due to there not being much you can add the the genre so they all try to have "uber" GFX, things like flight sims or RTS that are less graphics intensive push the CPU more.
For "real life" performance..im not sure what your asking considering most PCs don't even have a graphics card, for 99% of reall life day today operations of a PC a £20 GPU or onboard will be fine.
 
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For "real life" performance..im not sure what your asking considering most PCs don't even have a graphics card, for 99% of reall life day today operations of a PC a £20 GPU or onboard will be fine.

I mean a huge gaming bias by 'real life', graphics prowess and how you interpret benchmarks and benchmark your rig.

Thanks so far.
 
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