Intel Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-10700K Review: Is 65W Comet Lake an Option?
by Dr. Ian Cutress on January 21, 2021 10:30 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Core i7
- Z490
- 10th Gen Core
- Comet Lake
- i7-10700K
- i7-10700
Gaming Tests: Far Cry 5
The fifth title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration with a lot of configurability.
Unfortunately, the game doesn’t like us changing the resolution in the results file when using certain monitors, resorting to 1080p but keeping the quality settings. But resolution scaling does work, so we decided to fix the resolution at 1080p and use a variety of different scaling factors to give the following:
- 720p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1440p Max.
Far Cry 5 outputs a results file here, but that the file is a HTML file, which showcases a graph of the FPS detected. At no point in the HTML file does it contain the frame times for each frame, but it does show the frames per second, as a value once per second in the graph. The graph in HTML form is a series of (x,y) co-ordinates scaled to the min/max of the graph, rather than the raw (second, FPS) data, and so using regex I carefully tease out the values of the graph, convert them into a (second, FPS) format, and take our values of averages and percentiles that way.
If anyone from Ubisoft wants to chat about building a benchmark platform that would not only help me but also every other member of the tech press build our benchmark testing platform to help our readers decide what is the best hardware to use on your games, please reach out to ian@anandtech.com. Some of the suggestions I want to give you will take less than half a day and it’s easily free advertising to use the benchmark over the next couple of years (or more).
As with the other gaming tests, we run each resolution/setting combination for a minimum of 10 minutes and take the relevant frame data for averages and percentiles.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Marlin1975 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
"65 watt" you keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.YB1064 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
From the first peak power chart, the 10700K consumes almost twice as much power as an equivalent AMD offering at that price point. The "65W" number is blatantly false advertising.heickelrrx - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
10700k is not 65w part, 10700 is the one that labeled as 65wSamus - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Intel is just lying at this point as they are 'effectively' ~215w parts if you put them in a motherboard from Asus, Asrock, MSI, Gigabyte, etc. Only in an OEM system like an HP Elitedesk or Dell Workstation will they run anywhere close to their TDP rating but I'd guess they are using PL2 as well because why not, Intel said its ok.It's become painfully obvious Intel has had to resort to extreme measures here to compete. And compete is a pretty loose definition as they are using almost double the power of the competition and still slower clock for clock, dollar for dollar. No wonder Intel has shaken up the ranks, this is embarrassing.
Smell This - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review:3700X (65w) and 3900X Raising The Bar
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14605/the-and-ryzen...
I snagged a Ryzen 3700X 8c/16t for $280 3 months ago. The price is at $325 or so these days until it is supplanted by a Ryzen 5700X. Makes the Core i7-10700 at 197w very, very sad.
Fully loaded (by Andrei & Gavin) was around 90w.
bananaforscale - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
Doesn't matter, 10700 isn't really a 65W part either. I can deal with a 105W Ryzen pulling 150W under full load but having a "65W" part pull 215W is just BS. That's over triple and will overstress crap VRMs.III-V - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
It's peak power... Not sustained power, which is what TDP deals with.shabby - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
It's 2.9ghz base clock uses 65w, that's what the tdp rating basically is.It would be nice if anandtech posted the actual wattage during each test for each cpu. Not just for many fps it got but how much wattage it used in that test.
Qasar - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
specially for games. keep reading how some say in games, intel is still better then amd when it comes to power usage, but dont really see much about it.scottlarm - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
gfh