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Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - LtRoyalShrimp - 08-04-2015
Hi all,
So my personal rig is a 4770k water cooled and OC'd to 4.2gHz, respectable I'd say. GPU is a GTX 980 and 16GM DDR3 ram.
I also have access to a 5960x machine at work, with no OC, so stock 3.0Ghz. GPU is a GTX 970 and 16GB DDR4 ram.
When I play games like Rogue Squadron, I've noticed the 5960x has much less stuttering and generally higher FPS, when using same settings in Dolphin.
This is odd, since the 4770k is a whole 1.2Ghz higher in clock speed than the 5960x, and Dolphin does not benefit from the 5960x's 16 cores.
My only conclusion is that either the DDR4 ram is making a difference, and/or the 20MB L3 cache is seriously helping out in some form or another.
Any thoughts on this?
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - NKF98 - 08-05-2015
i doubt DDR4 would make that big of a difference, my guess would be that HT is slowing down performance on the threads
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - DatKid20 - 08-05-2015
They both have HT
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - mimimi - 08-05-2015
Hmm, RS2 or RS3 or both? Isn't RS3 heavily cpu limited because it's a MMU game? Maybe the bigger L3 cache helps there a lot? Fiora would maybe know...
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - NKF98 - 08-06-2015
maybe one system is hotter than the other?
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - IceStrike256 - 08-06-2015
Both games use MMU.
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - LtRoyalShrimp - 08-07-2015
(08-06-2015, 07:51 AM)NKF98 Wrote: maybe one system is hotter than the other?Both are water-cooled and I know for a fact there is no thermal throttling going on...
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - NKF98 - 08-07-2015
i guess the 5960x just has better single core performance
RE: Stock 5960x perf better than OC'd 4770k - admin89 - 08-07-2015
No , it doesn't . Both chips are Haswell