Intel & AMD Processor Hierarchy (Archive)

[cangelini]

Here is a resource to help you judge if a CPU is a reasonable value: The gaming CPU hierarchy chart groups CPUs with similar performance.

Intel & AMD Processor Hierarchy : Read more

 

[adamovera]

Archived comments are found here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3106609/intel-amd-processor-hierarchy.html

 

[poxenium]

Dude, those HyperThreading Pentium G4560 processors are better than previous gen Core i3's. Hierarchy is wrong.

 

[CoupDgrace]

Are the processors listed arbitrarily within each level? For example the 4770 is listed before the 4790k but then, say the 980 is listed before the 960 within the same level. So does the 4770 perform better in gaming than a 4790k? Or is it just that they all perform kinda the same so no order is important?

 

[Stardude82]

Yeah, the i3's should be broken up more. Those Sandy i3s are certainly showing their age and more in line with mainstream Lynnfield (even at launch) and FX-6300 in performance.

The promotion the quad-module Vishera chips makes no sense. They are old. They still struggle to compete with faster i3s in gaming loads let alone normal 1155 i5s.

 

[blackmagnum]

I think you can delete the Core2Duo and Athlon64 chips from the table. We are now at Q1/2017.

 

[Sam Hain]

The chart looks like it's in series number/in order of release, not really in order of a CPU's performance of one over another as a hierarchy chart would/should be... i.e. 3770 listed first for i7's, while some are in order of performance; i5 7600K, etc.

 

[AMD-Has-Ryzen]

Hi,

Where would the Pentium G4400 come on the list? I can see Kaby Lake and pre-Skylake Pentiums, but no actual Skylake Pentiums...?

 

[WilliBilliBoy]

Where would the Core i5 (I5-5250U) be on this table?

 

[razamatraz]

I'm thinking you might need to look at a new level in between 1 and 2. A lot of games are starting to take advantage of the i7 hyperthreads and there are significant differences showing between say an i7-7700k and an i5-3570K, both of which you have in tier 1.

I would move all i5s below 6600k into the tier 2, and maybe the ivy bridge i7s. I would then move the 2600K, 2700K 980X and maybe the 970, FX-9590, 9370, 8370 up to the new tier 2, rather than letting them fall to tier 3.. There is too much gap between chips in those two tiers with this year's AAA games.

All this said wait for Zen of course....no point in tweaking the board right now when Zen might knock over the table.

 

[BorgOvermind]

Would be nice to have a top of all times for video cards and CPUs. I kept such documentation a while back, but nothing in the last few years, there were just too many new products on the market to keep up.

 

[Invalid_Username_Juli]

Why is there no mention of the AM1 platform at all?

 

[razamatraz]

Why is there no mention of the AM1 platform at all?

This is a gaming chart, Kabini chips are not intended for that purpose and likely performed at a tier 6 level on release. While they make wonderful HTPCs, they are not gaming CPUs, even an Athlon 5350 really doesn't cut it.

 

[clutchc]

The Hyper-threaded dual core Kaby Lake Pentiums are in the same tier as the Hyper-threaded 6-core i7-970/980? Seriously?

 

[razamatraz]

I see you made some changes and actually split tier 1 and 2 into 3 tiers as I suggested earlier.. I don't think Ivy i5s do not belong in tier 1 anymore though; They are significantly outclassed in modern gaming by modern i7s. There seems to be a bit of weirdness on the Nehalam, Gulftown stuff too; The 965 and 975 are 4 core chips and they are in tier 2 while the 980 and 970 are 6 core at the same frequencies and are in tier 3?

 

[WilliBilliBoy]

Add Ryzen 7.

 

[AldoGG]

AMD A10-7890K, AMD A10-7870K, AMD Athlon X4 880k should be in the same category as AMD FX-4350.
Also where are AMD ryzen CPUs? Are you waiting for windows scheduler to get fixed for CCX L3 problem?

 

[rwadeg]

Ryzen??????

 

[razamatraz]

All Ryzen R7 are clearly tier 1 and none of you should need to ask. They may not beat a 7700K at everything but they stomp an i5-3570 *(which is also Tier 1)

 

[CyberBlade]

Helpful.

 

[clutchc]

I notice your listing for the "Athlon X4 651K, 645, 641, 640, 740, 750K, 860K" has a mixture of Athlon and Athlon II intermixed. But you leave the "II" off of the 640 and 645 CPUs. What with all the AM2+, AM3, FM1, FM2, FM2+ socket confusion added to the mix, it is hard to know which chips we are comparing.
...for those few of us that still like those old, weak CPUs ;-)