question about i5

whiteknights · Oct 11, 2013

my question may look naive, but my curiosity pushed me to ask it..

isn't any gen of i5 is enough for gaming for atleast 3/4 years?..i guess the answer is Yes.. then why many people concerning about it's different generations? like " if you wana play in ultra go for the i5-4670k instead of i5-3470" .. it won't be that BIG difference in performance because it still i5 in the end (Quad core) that's the main issue here..game like BF4 for example, you could get the same FPS if you were playing it whether with i5-3330 or i5-4670k..because the game won't MAX the CPU..am i right?

CaptainTom · Oct 11, 2013

whiteknights :

The i5-4670K is noticably stronger than that other weak i5 you mentioned. It is 10% faster clock for clock and it is clocked FAR higher due to overclocking...

ingtar33 · Oct 11, 2013

whiteknights :

you're right. in pretty much every title you play (actually in every title) an i5-3350p should be able to max out at 60fps and 1080p. just like every other intel 4 core or better. and only a handful of games will an i3 fail to max out to 60fps.

Even piledriver cpus can be counted on to hit 60fps in pretty much every title out there at 1080p.

the thing of it is, there ARE people who use multiple monitors and gpus in SLi/Xfire or who do nothing but video encoding all day... who NEED more power from their cpu. And there are people who like to compare how far they can pee too. Sometimes it's an overcompensation thing, sometimes it's necessary, usually it's someone feeling the need to lord over how much better and bigger their wallet is over someone else. Or just an enthusiast who has to have the FASTEST!!!!! of everything.

Either way, practically speaking there is almost no difference between an i5-3350p and an i7-4770k.

btw: haswell is NOT a 10% IPC increase over ivybridge. There isn't a benchmark alive that shows that much of a gain. 5% seems to be about the gain depending on who you ask. That plus slightly higher turbo and base clock speeds is the difference between the two.

whiteknights · Oct 13, 2013

ingtar33 :

whiteknights :

you're right. in pretty much every title you play (actually in every title) an i5-3350p should be able to max out at 60fps and 1080p. just like every other intel 4 core or better. and only a handful of games will an i3 fail to max out to 60fps.

Even piledriver cpus can be counted on to hit 60fps in pretty much every title out there at 1080p.

the thing of it is, there ARE people who use multiple monitors and gpus in SLi/Xfire or who do nothing but video encoding all day... who NEED more power from their cpu. And there are people who like to compare how far they can pee too. Sometimes it's an overcompensation thing, sometimes it's necessary, usually it's someone feeling the need to lord over how much better and bigger their wallet is over someone else. Or just an enthusiast who has to have the FASTEST!!!!! of everything.

Either way, practically speaking there is almost no difference between an i5-3350p and an i7-4770k.

btw: haswell is NOT a 10% IPC increase over ivybridge. There isn't a benchmark alive that shows that much of a gain. 5% seems to be about the gain depending on who you ask. That plus slightly higher turbo and base clock speeds is the difference between the two.

thanks, can you tell for? how long i5-3330 with a graphic card like HD 7850 can run upcoming games?

ingtar33 · Oct 13, 2013

whiteknights :

look at it this way.

a phenom II x4 + HD 6950 would be a 3-4 year old build, and it could still run games in 1080p at good settings. now i expect with the new game systems coming out that pc hardware will need a bump up to keep up, so there are no promises. just consider that it's unlikely your cpu will be an issue anytime soon... worst case scenario you might need to replace the gpu down the road to squeeze a few more years of life out of the system.

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