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Intel processor architectures tested clock-to-clock in gaming - results all over the place

Finnish tech news site io-tech.fi has got some weird results testing the new Core i7-7700K against Intels previous processors. They tested Kaby Lake against Skylake clock-to-clock like many other news sites, but included also Sandybridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell in the testing. All processors were run at 4.0 GHz and with 2400 MHz memory speed (except Sandybridge which only supports 2133 MHz).


In synthetic benchmarks and rendering the results were as expected: Kaby Lake and Skylake scored even but otherwise performance had improved slightly by every generation. Kaby Lake beat Sandybridge by around 25-30% depending on the test.


When tested in games with GTX 1080 at 1080p the results don't seem to make any sense however. The frame rates were measured with OCAT. In Battlefield 1 (DX12) Ivy Bridge beat all the others by 12 fps despite several re-runs. With Kaby Lake and Skylake the test hitched in couple of places resulting in noticeable drop in fps. Ivy Bridge suffered from the same behavior, but not in the same level.

 

In Gears of war: Warhammer (DX12) and Civilization VI AI Benchmark (DX12) Kaby Lake and Skylake beat Ivy Bridge but Haswell rose to the top.

 

In GTA V (DX11) Haswell and Ivy Bridge were on top of Kaby Lake and Skylake.

 

Take this how you will. At least it seems that the IPC improvements don't really transfer to games. A small increase in clock speed would lift any one of the processors to the top.

 

Tell me if you liked me to translate more of the article to English. The testing methology in more detail for example.

 

Source and all the benchmarks for you to see: https://www.io-tech.fi/artikkelit/intel-core-i7-7700k-core-i5-7600k-kaby-lake/

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Very interesting

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I should note that the performance differences were fairly minimal in every other game than Battlefield but still, at least to my understanding, repeatable and valid. However they have no practical effect. For example in GTA V, Haswell was just 2 fps faster than Kaby Lake.

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Yay Intel, revolutionizing the CPU world every year.

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Intels focus havent really been preformance for a while now and they have just slapped more features onto the CPU but this is indeed pretty interesting results

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I honestly feel that silicon has reached its maximum, Intel or AMD will not really upgrade much from what we already have, aside from optimizations the performance gap is always going to be smaller and smaller... Intel better be already studying replacements for Silicon otherwise the 8th gen will again be nothing more than a Kaby Lake polishing and if you have a "Lake" CPU you'll stay fine enough.

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18 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I honestly feel that silicon has reached its maximum, Intel or AMD will not really upgrade much from what we already have, aside from optimizations the performance gap is always going to be smaller and smaller... Intel better be already studying replacements for Silicon otherwise the 8th gen will again be nothing more than a Kaby Lake polishing and if you have a "Lake" CPU you'll stay fine enough.

now we will see the core race,

 

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DX12? Nope, DX12 wrappers more like it.

 

Why they insisted on forcing DX12 for all their game tests is beyond me? Probably did the test in DX11 mode and realised the results weren't surprising so they repeated them with DX12 forced.

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I think i'm not the only one...

 

Anyway, seems like getting a haswell cpu a while ago seems like a good idea for the future! :D

It's not like the newer stuff is faster or anything :P

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56 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

IDK why but I always knew Ivy was a really strong architecture 

Everyone knows that Ivy and Sandy are really hands-down the best that Intel has made in recent history in terms of just how incredibly well they still hold up.

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35 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

DX12? Nope, DX12 wrappers more like it.

 

Why they insisted on forcing DX12 for all their game tests is beyond me? Probably did the test in DX11 mode and realised the results weren't surprising so they repeated them with DX12 forced.

I kind of agree with you, at least in that it would have been appropriate to test with DX11 as well after getting those results.

 

Then again, DX11 or 12, I still don't get why Ivy Bridge is constantly faster (in BF1). It would be a different thing if the results were comlitely random, but no, apparently those were repeatable.

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54 minutes ago, Levis95l said:

I kind of agree with you, at least in that it would have been appropriate to test with DX11 as well after getting those results.

 

Then again, DX11 or 12, I still don't get why Ivy Bridge is constantly faster (in BF1). It would be a different thing if the results were comlitely random, but no, apparently those were repeatable.

In the PCSX2 forums, it was said that Haswell is 30% faster per clock than Ivy in emulation. 

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pcper a few months back did an interesting test proving that despite minimal changes in average framerates, the newer architectures do give consistent and smoother frame delivery with less stutters when compared to sandy bridge.

 

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Skylake-vs-Sandy-Bridge-Discrete-GPU-Showdown

 

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3 hours ago, RGProductions said:

IDK why but I always knew Ivy was a really strong architecture 

Ivy is just die shrunk Sandy though. It was a tock

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26 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Ivy is just die shrunk Sandy though. It was a tock

Fine, Mr. Symantics.

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1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

me and my 3570k have been friends for a long time.. i see no reason for us to part ways.

 

2 GPU's and counting too... #never-upgrade

You should delid and try to hit 5ghz! they tend to be able to do that.

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7 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Fine, Mr. Symantics.

I'm trying to say that this really shouldn't happen xD It's just die shrunk Sandy Bridge

 

Or maybe die shrinks do more than I think they do

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Just now, Energycore said:

I'm trying to say that this really shouldn't happen xD It's just die shrunk Sandy Bridge

 

Or maybe die shrinks do more than I think they do

yeah, sandy is strong as well.

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