- Back to homepage
- Related articles
  Related articles

Intel Haswell 4th Generation CPU: i5-4670K and i7-4770K Review

CPU by leeghoofd @ 2013-06-01

Intel keeps on pushing their technology to the max. Even while being the performance leader in most hardware segments, their engineers are driven to (re)design new architectures to satisfy the end-user's desire for more speed. However the focus with this CPU generation is not purely based on raw speed; this 4th generation main objective is to reduce the power consumption to the max, to gain grounds in the portable market. Rumor that Intel was pulling out of the desktop market has partially become reality. Not leaving the desktop market for what it is, as they will continue to develop the chipsets and processors. With Haswell we see the last releases of Intel's own motherboard branch. The market share of notebooks, ultrabooks, tablets and mini enclosures are steadily taking over the market share of the desktop. Enhanced battery life, a result of a reduced power consumption, an enhanced onboard graphic chip and the reduction of required motherboard components are the major trademarks of Intel's 4th generation processors. Time to put both K skews to the test.

Stock Results Part I

Even though both test are quite old, the single threaded SuperPi test reveals the presence of raw calculating power. The 1M test is more CPU speed dependant. The longer SuperPI 32M test requires massive bandwidth to get faster outputs, this when testing at the same clock speeds. WPrime is a multi-threaded application, able to put heavy stress on all of the available cores.

A small step forward for the brand new 4th generation from Intel in both SuperPi 1M and Wprime 32. Compared to the Ivy Bridge CPU's (3770K and 3570K) the gains look minimalistic at first glance. However shaving off one 10th of a second at similar clock speeds looks very promising. when running the longer versions of SuperPI 32M we see some astonishing progress. Terminating the 32M test 23-25 seconds faster then the previous Intel CPU generation is any bencher's dream. New WR's are up for grasp !

The multi-threaded Wprime outputs remain at the same performance level as the Ivy-Bridge CPUs.

We retested most of the current CPUs with the new Haswell ready AIDA64 2.99.2446 beta version. Compared to the previous version we noticed huge increases for the Bulldozer FX-8150CPU and the quad RAM channel equipped socket 2011 CPUs. When looking more specific at the socket 1155 and Haswell socket 1150 CPUs there's not much that could explain the massive performance boost in SuperPI 32M. The boost is more profound in the L1 and L2 caches.

The compression power of the 64bit multi-threaded WinRAR v5.00 revealed a weird output by the i5-4670K versus the i5-3570K. The flagship i7-4770K was a tad faster than the Ivy Bridge i7-3770K CPU.

No comments available.

All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.