| Slimebeast said: I'm puzzled about the Zen and the supposed 40% increase in IPC, which sounds so damn little for five years of CPU development. How do popular Intel CPUs in the last few years like Core i7-2600, i7-3770, i7-4790 and i7-6700 compare to each other in gaming performance? |
CPU performance in games really depends on the king of game you're playing, and if they are more CPU or GPU intensive.
For example, and I'll use TechSpot as they benchmark games with different CPUs too, Star Wars: Battlefront, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Division, DOOM or even The Witcher 3 aren't very CPU intensive games, so there's little difference between an i5-2500K and a i7-6700K.
Other games, like Project Cars and FallOut 4, do show improvements with more powerful CPUs, and then there are games like Overwatch that show big improvements the faster your CPU is (but given that all the AMD FX chips and even Intel's i3 achieve 60fps, does it really matter?).
Please excuse my bad English.
Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070
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