Core i7 950 @ 3.9 Ghz VS Core i7 4770k @ Default

[omidelf]

so which one will be better on games ?

Core i7 950 @ 3.9 Ghz or Core i7 4770k @ Default ?

 

[ashd]

Haswell

 

[omidelf]

Haswell

but the 4770k default is 3.5 GHz ! how can it be better ?
and they both are 4 core

 

[JohnPMyers]

The 4770K can execute more instructions per clock than the 950. But if you're really asking if the 950 is good enough for gaming, then yes, as long as your graphics card is good.

http://cpu-comparison.whoratesit.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-950-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K/617vs1537

 

[omidelf]

The 4770K can execute more instructions per clock than the 950. But if you're really asking if the 950 is good enough for gaming, then yes, as long as your graphics card is good.

http://cpu-comparison.whoratesit.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-950-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K/617vs1537

I said core i7 950 @ 3.9 Ghz , this compare that you did is based on core i7 950 @ default

i overclocked my 950 to 3.9 Ghz

 

[JohnPMyers]

Yes, but some simple math will show you the 4770K is still faster.

Besides that, the comparison you're asking for makes no sense at all. You're completely forgetting you can OC the 4770K to 3.9 GHz too (actually 4.4GHz is fairly common). You cannot tell me you wouldn't OC a 4770K if you had one. So to keep things fair and unbiased, either you compare both chips at stock, which i did, or you compare both OC'd. Don't cripple the 4770K to make yourself look better.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

i7 9xx series was replaced by the i7 2xxx Sandy Bridge chips. They were roughly 15% faster clock for clock. So assuming both are at 3.5Ghz the Sandy Bridge chip is 15% faster. So.....

i7 9xx Replaced by 15% faster:
i7 2xxx Replaced by 7% faster:
i7 3xxx Replaced by 10% faster:
i7 4xxx Making the i7 4770k over 30% faster clock for clock.

Assuming both ran at 3Ghz the i7 4770 would be at least as fast as a 3.9Ghz i7 950 if not faster.

Every generation gets process improvements and every other generation gets a die shrink. This is the reason new chips are released. They are faster than the old ones. The 4770K also has newer instruction sets. The only time you can compare clock speed and have it matter at all is when comparing 2 CPUs of the same generation.

So you would need roughly 4.55Ghz out of your i7 950 to equal an i7 4770K at stock. Some tasks would be less than 30% some would be more. That does not factor in the i7 4770K's superior Turbo either though.

 

[chrisso]

The haswell will be considerably better in games because it has a higher instructions per cycle (ipc) count, a smaller manafacturing process, and was made with newer transistor technology. Sorry, getting frustrated.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

The haswell will be considerably better in games because it has a higher instructions per cycle (ipc) count, a smaller manafacturing process, and was made with newer transistor technology. If you have any difficulty understanding the answer to the question you asked, I and google will be here. Except I wont care.

That's the kind of helpful snide little comments that get you some time off from posting in the forums. Keep it polite please.

 

[omidelf]

i7 9xx series was replaced by the i7 2xxx Sandy Bridge chips. They were roughly 15% faster clock for clock. So assuming both are at 3.5Ghz the Sandy Bridge chip is 15% faster. So.....

i7 9xx Replaced by 15% faster:
i7 2xxx Replaced by 7% faster:
i7 3xxx Replaced by 10% faster:
i7 4xxx Making the i7 4770k over 30% faster clock for clock.

Assuming both ran at 3Ghz the i7 4770 would be at least as fast as a 3.9Ghz i7 950 if not faster.

Every generation gets process improvements and every other generation gets a die shrink. This is the reason new chips are released. They are faster than the old ones. The 4770K also has newer instruction sets. The only time you can compare clock speed and have it matter at all is when comparing 2 CPUs of the same generation.

So you would need roughly 4.55Ghz out of your i7 950 to equal an i7 4770K at stock. Some tasks would be less than 30% some would be more. That does not factor in the i7 4770K's superior Turbo either though.

but do you think i need more than core i7 950 @ 3.9 ghz to max out any games on 1080p without having troubles like cpu bottleneck ?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

At 3.9Ghz your i7 950 will not bottleneck anything except maybe 2 high end cards in Sli/Crossfire. And that would be small.

 

[omidelf]

At 3.9Ghz your i7 950 will not bottleneck anything except maybe 2 high end cards in Sli/Crossfire. And that would be small.

i played metro today and used msi afterburn , here's the resault :

my average GPU's usage was like 90 ! ( max : 98 for both of them)
and my average cpu usage was 70-80 ( max : 85 )


so is this a cpu bottleneck ? should i be worried about changing my cpu ?
( by the way my VGA is gtx 770 Sli )

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Looks pretty good to me. I would wait until next spring when the Haswell refresh comes out then worry about upgrading the CPU, motherboard and maybe DDR4 RAM.

 

[Live-H3]

i7 9xx series was replaced by the i7 2xxx Sandy Bridge chips. They were roughly 15% faster clock for clock. So assuming both are at 3.5Ghz the Sandy Bridge chip is 15% faster. So.....

i7 9xx Replaced by 15% faster:
i7 2xxx Replaced by 7% faster:
i7 3xxx Replaced by 10% faster:
i7 4xxx Making the i7 4770k over 30% faster clock for clock.

Assuming both ran at 3Ghz the i7 4770 would be at least as fast as a 3.9Ghz i7 950 if not faster.

Every generation gets process improvements and every other generation gets a die shrink. This is the reason new chips are released. They are faster than the old ones. The 4770K also has newer instruction sets. The only time you can compare clock speed and have it matter at all is when comparing 2 CPUs of the same generation.

So you would need roughly 4.55Ghz out of your i7 950 to equal an i7 4770K at stock. Some tasks would be less than 30% some would be more. That does not factor in the i7 4770K's superior Turbo either though.

Actually, the X58 chipset was not replaced by Z67 or something, it was replaced by the new X79, LGA2011 chipset. You really cant replace an high end chipset with mid-end. I just hate when people dont know which is high end and which is not.
X58 still had it's place during a long time period as it was the only one have 6-core 12-thread CPU:s. So people who did some real work on computer used it, before the x79 came out. Nowdays X79 -chipset is the way to go if you want high-end. For gaming i7-4770K is best bang for a buck.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I hate when people necro 7 month old threads with useless information. I never mention chipsets in the post you quoted. The i7 9xx Bloomfield series were directly replaced with the i7 2xxx Sandy Bridge series. While technically correct in that LGA 2011 was the replacement for LGA 1366 it makes absolutely no difference to my post that compared CPU architectures not chipsets.