Intel i7-6700K & i5-6600K in 2019: Benchmarks vs. Ryzen, 9900K, 9700K, 3600
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Dany
Good infos on these results thanks. But I really don't see the point nowadays to test hardware like this in 1080p. Moving from 260fps to 310fps is just useless and quite sensible on windows background task. The fact is you have more chance to get a 4K monitor and want to see if your CPU is holding tight at 4K 50/60p otherwise, you just want to show off and increase your electricity bill. As when you reach the sweet spot in resolution/level details, order can change because something would demand more Ghz on one core or more threads on another. Also zipping in general is badly multithreaded (it wants GHz, Adobe H264/H265 is pure crap (the the power it draws. I found that HCenc (MPEG2) would take more GHZ and test your CPU affinity, working turbo boost and core swapping. And for games, of course if you just take console ported games (they run on a low end chip from the start) you'll have results well above 60-80FPS. Actually those game tests miss badly optimized softwares which everybody use sooner or later, and preferably with development support (like mission editor) which is a hint to smell demanding games (you're not a coder, so it needs to ingest basic code which is generally not very well multithreaded (you'll have 1 core at 100% for scripting engine and other at 50 or less for various rendering tasks) or else buy a playstation/xbox (the switch is an overclocked gameboy color)
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Good infos on these results thanks. But I really don't see the point nowadays to test hardware like this in 1080p. Moving from 260fps to 310fps is just useless and quite sensible on windows background task. The fact is you have more chance to get a 4K monitor and want to see if your CPU is holding tight at 4K 50/60p otherwise, you just want to show off and increase your electricity bill. As when you reach the sweet spot in resolution/level details, order can change because something would demand more Ghz on one core or more threads on another. Also zipping in general is badly multithreaded (it wants GHz, Adobe H264/H265 is pure crap (the the power it draws. I found that HCenc (MPEG2) would take more GHZ and test your CPU affinity, working turbo boost and core swapping. And for games, of course if you just take console ported games (they run on a low end chip from the start) you'll have results well above 60-80FPS. Actually those game tests miss badly optimized softwares which everybody use sooner or later, and preferably with development support (like mission editor) which is a hint to smell demanding games (you're not a coder, so it needs to ingest basic code which is generally not very well multithreaded (you'll have 1 core at 100% for scripting engine and other at 50 or less for various rendering tasks) or else buy a playstation/xbox (the switch is an overclocked gameboy color)
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INTENZO
HELP! Ive been very happy with my 6700k for 4 years now. I play CSGO and BFV atm. RTX 2080. Last 2 months or so ive hade really bad experiences in CSGO with bad fps drops and stutters and momentarily freezes for split seconds. Ive heard that Intel made a lot of patches lately and its because of these patches the performance has taken a toll. Remember, CSGO is a heavily CPU based game. BFV 1440p works like a dream tho. Al tho when looking at fps comparisons I might not gain that much (or anything) with an Ryzen 3600 but AMD doesnt seem to have these issues with CSGO performance. It drives me mad, I feel cant perform in CSGO anymore because of these issues. Thoughts/advice anyone? My budget in case of an upgrade is max 400. MSI RTX2080 ASUS pro gaming z170 i7 6700k stock 4ghz Corsair vengance 16gb ddr4 2700mhz Csgo 1080p low fps 120-370fps BFV 1440p ultra 80-130fps
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HELP! Ive been very happy with my 6700k for 4 years now. I play CSGO and BFV atm. RTX 2080. Last 2 months or so ive hade really bad experiences in CSGO with bad fps drops and stutters and momentarily freezes for split seconds. Ive heard that Intel made a lot of patches lately and its because of these patches the performance has taken a toll. Remember, CSGO is a heavily CPU based game. BFV 1440p works like a dream tho. Al tho when looking at fps comparisons I might not gain that much (or anything) with an Ryzen 3600 but AMD doesnt seem to have these issues with CSGO performance. It drives me mad, I feel cant perform in CSGO anymore because of these issues. Thoughts/advice anyone? My budget in case of an upgrade is max 400. MSI RTX2080 ASUS pro gaming z170 i7 6700k stock 4ghz Corsair vengance 16gb ddr4 2700mhz Csgo 1080p low fps 120-370fps BFV 1440p ultra 80-130fps
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StrikeSN
In the benchmarks you exactly see what I noticed during my upgrade. Everybody told me to not waste my money on a 5 2600 while still having a 6600k easily getting up to 5 GHZ. But I got 350 Euros for my PC with the i5 6600k and I sold it pretty cheap. So I build my self a new Pc which consumes less then half of the energy of my old one for 520 euros and now I can play all my games while getting more FPS and saving money. The difference is so high that I get the 170 Euros back in energy cost savings in the next three years. Considering they just announced another increase in energy cost I love my decision more and more. For my usecase the difference of the 5 2600 also pays of like crazy and my performance increase is around 30 percent.
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In the benchmarks you exactly see what I noticed during my upgrade. Everybody told me to not waste my money on a 5 2600 while still having a 6600k easily getting up to 5 GHZ. But I got 350 Euros for my PC with the i5 6600k and I sold it pretty cheap. So I build my self a new Pc which consumes less then half of the energy of my old one for 520 euros and now I can play all my games while getting more FPS and saving money. The difference is so high that I get the 170 Euros back in energy cost savings in the next three years. Considering they just announced another increase in energy cost I love my decision more and more. For my usecase the difference of the 5 2600 also pays of like crazy and my performance increase is around 30 percent.
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Karl
Let's keep some perspective here. Even the lowest CPU on this list was generally able to give 70+ fps, which is just fine for gaming on an up to 75Hz monitor. To say the 4C/4T CPU's are 'dead' is pure computer-geek hyperbole. It depends what you want and which games you play. If you want to play console-type kiddie FPS games like COD and Fortnite at 144 fps, it makes sense to upgrade. or just get a console and save a whack of cash. GPU is still king in games. And how about more benchmarks at 1440p that would also show that CPU is less important? I'll save my cash and wait until the next cycle and maybe DDR5.
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Let's keep some perspective here. Even the lowest CPU on this list was generally able to give 70+ fps, which is just fine for gaming on an up to 75Hz monitor. To say the 4C/4T CPU's are 'dead' is pure computer-geek hyperbole. It depends what you want and which games you play. If you want to play console-type kiddie FPS games like COD and Fortnite at 144 fps, it makes sense to upgrade. or just get a console and save a whack of cash. GPU is still king in games. And how about more benchmarks at 1440p that would also show that CPU is less important? I'll save my cash and wait until the next cycle and maybe DDR5.
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Kevin
I upgraded from an FX 6300 to an i5 6600k. An i5 will be fine for years yet. they said. Game don't use hyperthreading and multiple cores anyway. they cried. And they were right. For like. two years. The 6600k absolutely demolished the piece of trash that was my old FX 6300, but paired with a Vega 56 in modern games. 4c/t just can't keep up. Pretty much every AAA modern game I play is so stuttery, it's not even funny. My CPU hits 100%, my GPU hits like 60%, and the game just feels gross. I'm currently waiting on a 3800X and a new motherboard to show up from Amazon. Can't wait to go back to AMD.
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I upgraded from an FX 6300 to an i5 6600k. An i5 will be fine for years yet. they said. Game don't use hyperthreading and multiple cores anyway. they cried. And they were right. For like. two years. The 6600k absolutely demolished the piece of trash that was my old FX 6300, but paired with a Vega 56 in modern games. 4c/t just can't keep up. Pretty much every AAA modern game I play is so stuttery, it's not even funny. My CPU hits 100%, my GPU hits like 60%, and the game just feels gross. I'm currently waiting on a 3800X and a new motherboard to show up from Amazon. Can't wait to go back to AMD.
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Suspicious0ne
I was running a 6600k 4. 5GHz, upgraded to a 6700k 4. 7GHz. It was noticable in gaming and basic computer use. Upgraded my ram from 8gb 2400mhz to 16gb 3000mhz, made the whole thing night and day. If you are running a 6600k its cheaper to buy a used 6700k for 200 or less and upgrade your ram to a faster speed. Since most z170 and newer motherboards have a M. 2 slot, if you haven't upgraded from a SSD/HDD now is a prime time. Even then it would still be cheaper then buying a Ryzen 3600/Msi b450 tomohawk/8gb 3200mhz ram. When Zen 3 comes out then I'll consider buying new gear.
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I was running a 6600k 4. 5GHz, upgraded to a 6700k 4. 7GHz. It was noticable in gaming and basic computer use. Upgraded my ram from 8gb 2400mhz to 16gb 3000mhz, made the whole thing night and day. If you are running a 6600k its cheaper to buy a used 6700k for 200 or less and upgrade your ram to a faster speed. Since most z170 and newer motherboards have a M. 2 slot, if you haven't upgraded from a SSD/HDD now is a prime time. Even then it would still be cheaper then buying a Ryzen 3600/Msi b450 tomohawk/8gb 3200mhz ram. When Zen 3 comes out then I'll consider buying new gear.
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vince
6700k, 7700k, 8700k, 9700k/9900k = SAME SHIT! They're all really just Skylake just like how Devil's Canyon (4790k) is really just Haswell (4770k. I wish Intel went back to every new CPU line being either a die-shrink or a new architecture. Eg. Sandy Lake -> Ivy Lake -> Haswell-> Broadwell [although we never got upper-end Broadwell chips) -> Skylake rather than just re-hashing the same 'ol CPUs while making it sound like they're a fundamental new model when really it's just the same rehashed CPU but with higher STOCK clock-speeds and maybe more cores.
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6700k, 7700k, 8700k, 9700k/9900k = SAME SHIT! They're all really just Skylake just like how Devil's Canyon (4790k) is really just Haswell (4770k. I wish Intel went back to every new CPU line being either a die-shrink or a new architecture. Eg. Sandy Lake -> Ivy Lake -> Haswell-> Broadwell [although we never got upper-end Broadwell chips) -> Skylake rather than just re-hashing the same 'ol CPUs while making it sound like they're a fundamental new model when really it's just the same rehashed CPU but with higher STOCK clock-speeds and maybe more cores.
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ChanceAdvanced
I have the Non K 6700. Haven't seen the need to upgrade with any games I've tired yet. Still getting 100+ fps in any title I throw at it with a 2070 non super GPU. I'm using 1080p 144hz monitors for the rig. I'd say 80% of the games I've tired are still GPU bound even at 1080p resolution. I'm sure as time progresses I'll see more games that start to become CPU bound but I see no need to upgrade at the moment. It is nice to see newer CPUs that beat the chip though. Eventually I'll probably get a beefier rig but I'm happy with what I have.
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I have the Non K 6700. Haven't seen the need to upgrade with any games I've tired yet. Still getting 100+ fps in any title I throw at it with a 2070 non super GPU. I'm using 1080p 144hz monitors for the rig. I'd say 80% of the games I've tired are still GPU bound even at 1080p resolution. I'm sure as time progresses I'll see more games that start to become CPU bound but I see no need to upgrade at the moment. It is nice to see newer CPUs that beat the chip though. Eventually I'll probably get a beefier rig but I'm happy with what I have.
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Chris
These charts blow me away, I'm surprised how far processors have actually come, or rather I guess how much games are implementing higher thread count use. I just built my GF a 6600k + 1060 6gb ( 250 for the entire rig) which I felt was a good value, but I didn't realize how far her 6600k is from my 9700k. My brother is on a 6500 and we're looking at an upgrade for him since I got him a used 1070 for christmas, it's a non-Z board and I thought a 6700 non-k would be a nice upgrade. Now I'm thinking he may as well ditch the board and go R5 3600.
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These charts blow me away, I'm surprised how far processors have actually come, or rather I guess how much games are implementing higher thread count use. I just built my GF a 6600k + 1060 6gb ( 250 for the entire rig) which I felt was a good value, but I didn't realize how far her 6600k is from my 9700k. My brother is on a 6500 and we're looking at an upgrade for him since I got him a used 1070 for christmas, it's a non-Z board and I thought a 6700 non-k would be a nice upgrade. Now I'm thinking he may as well ditch the board and go R5 3600.
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