So I managed to find a used i7-3770K for $50 online (I have an unused B75 board lying in my room that I thought I'd put to good use), and I was just wondering if it is much slower than the 4790K? Or is the difference negligible? I should also mention that I don't plan on overclocking any time soon (I'm a power consumption freak, and the B75 board wouldn't allow for OC anyway.) Thanks in advance for your input!
Haswell architecture has been known to be 30% faster in dolphin than ivy bridge i.e. the 3770k so the 4790k would be possibly about 40% faster in dolphin than the 3770k as standard.
4790k has better performance per core plus a higher stock clock speed. 4790k is also known to be better at overclocking.
It really doesn't matter as you would be able to play most games at max speed anyway.
@Link_to_the_past
You should probably reread that doc. You're comparing a 4790K OCed to 4.4GHz against a stock 3770K.
Haswell is about 30% faster than ivy bridge at any clock rate. A number as high as 64% should be a dead give away that your comparison is flawed.
(09-26-2014, 10:21 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]@Link_to_the_past
You should probably reread that doc. You're comparing a 4790K OCed to 4.4GHz against a stock 3770K.
Haswell is about 30% faster than ivy bridge at any clock rate. A number as high as 64% should be a dead give away that your comparison is flawed.
Both cpus use their max turbo boost speeds in the doc. That's why i suppose they are stock. 4790K is exactly the same with i7-4770k at 4.3 ghz in the doc btw (turbo boost of 4790K with two cores). Also the difference of Time * MHz (basically IPC) is higher than 30% between the two cpus, about 40%.
DatKid20 Wrote:4790k....
My bad. I was looking at the wrong model this whole time.