From AMD8320 - i7 6700. Impressions

[Dave2150]

I went from a 8350 overclocked to 4.7ghz to a 6700k at 4.5ghz and i gained approx 40fps on X Plane 10 and also approx about the same in most of my other games that I play such as Far Cry Primal, GTA 5.

I think if you have, say a 970 or lower then AMD is the best bet, financially, but as you progress up the GPU ladder, thats when intel really shines.

Matt

Bear in mind his 6700 runs at 3.4Ghz..... There's a reason why they are much cheaper than the 6700k's that can do 4.5Ghz+ easily.

What is yout 6700 boosting to in games? Single thread it will do 4Ghz, though not too many single thread games these days, 3.6Ghz multi-threaded?

That said, even at 3.4Ghz it should still wipe the floor with your AMD setup. I'd recommend doing some benchmarks (firestrike, cinebench r15), compare with others using the 6700 nonK.

 

[Martini1991]

I'm glad of this thread, getting itchy for a new cpu to replace my 8350 and again it just doesn't seem worth it regards the return I'll get vs the cost

He's running 3440x1440.
The fact that even at such a high resolution, and notices in some games improvement is surely telling?
Depending on your set up and your resolution determines if it's worth it, 5 people could make the change and all have varying results.

But at this point in time, I guess I would wait for Zen. I don't know if I could personally justifying buying into a modern mainstream i7 set up, unless it was for the higher tier 6820, or I'd gone second hand.

 

[PhoenixUK]

no the difference is many people cant notice difference because they look at max fps while playing.

you do really need to bench because your max fps may not jump much but your minimums may jump 50 percent which is a night and day performance difference.

You're missing the point, I am not talking about looking at FPS - he can't notice the difference in gameplay. If you need to look at FPS and benchmarks to see the difference (ie gameplay on both feels as smooth or extremely close) then that's that and nothing else.

 

[Martini1991]

You're missing the point, I am not talking about looking at FPS - he can't notice the difference in gameplay. If you need to look at FPS and benchmarks to see the difference (ie gameplay on both feels as smooth or extremely close) then that's that and nothing else.

Except that he says he can (Game depending) and he's at a higher resolution than what most would be running, he's running frame rates I wouldn't consider playable regardless of vendor either way, yet there's still a difference.
These days I don't even monitor frame rates, I know I'm getting the best out of my set up.

 

[~>Dg<~]

You're missing the point, I am not talking about looking at FPS - he can't notice the difference in gameplay. If you need to look at FPS and benchmarks to see the difference (ie gameplay on both feels as smooth or extremely close) then that's that and nothing else.

as said some people cant notice the difference even if there is a difference.some people will happily play at 30 fps.me myself consider that a slide show.

so some are more receptive than others.also the type of games you play make a difference.

the newer cpu is a lot better.whether you or him notice it is up in the air.

 

[regulus]

Noticed another improvement last night. Played (or tested rather) ROTTR on the dreaded Soviet Installation level. Exact same setup as previously apart from new CPU. Played at High Settings (as before) and it ran smooth as butter for me. Couldn't tell you the FPS as for some reason I couldn't get any of the counter overlays to work. Didn't feel like fiddling with it either. All I know is that my PC did not like that level very much previously and even I could notice a stutter the whole way through. This time it felt smooth throughout the entire level.

Reason I didn't end up going for a 6700k or 6600k is that all gaming benchmarks I've watched online don't show THAT much of a difference between the two CPUs. Same with some benchmarks on here. I only do Heaven and ROTTR benchies and I'm pretty sure I got some higher scores than some guys on there that do have 6700k's running at 4.5ghz. But to be fair, I don't think they've spent much time clocking their GPUs before running those benchmarks.

Anyhow. I'll end up running another 1080 in SLI a few days after my next big 'whiskey drinking' night and get closer to a consistent 60fps

 

[DarkMatter]

As another interesting comparison I had two PC's.

One i5 650 the other a i5 3570k. I used to switch graphics cards (770 2gb) between the two of them and only on a handful of games did I notice a significant difference the large majority ran at a similar FPS.

My latest PC I went with a NVMe drive just for the sake of neatness. I would 100% recommend it from that point of view, no noticeable difference over the PC I have with a 840 pro in it.

 

[CapitalOne]

Hi All

Sorry I haven't read all the replies, but I recently did the same swap - I wasn't unhappy but fancied a platform refresh. I would expect the chipset to have an impact as well as the chip of course. I kept the same RAM, drives, GPU and swapped a 990 pro 2 evo + [email protected] for a Z97 msi board plus a stock (so far!) 4790k. Games are indeed smoother (its a 2560x1080 freesync screen) as I think the AMD setup probably went below the 37 or so fps min of the freesync range. I did have enough FM benchmarks for a couple of compares which shows a decent difference below, however I "feel" the gap isn't as big as these suggest.

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