Getting Terrible Performance With Similar Hardware

[sir.isaac.rocks]

I have 2 computers that I built myself. One has a i7 4790k with an EVGA 1080 FTW and 16 GB of RAM, the other has an i7 7700k with an ASUS 1080 STRIX and 16 GB of RAM. On games like Arma, Squad and Escape from Tarkov, the 4790k build performs significantly worse. I've watched benchmarks of these processors pinned against each other and the performance loss usually equated to 5-10 FPS lower on the older processor. Both computers have the same exact SSD (Crucial MX300 525GB) except the 4790k build has an extra SSD (ADATA SP550). The only thing I could wonder about is that my RAM is 1866 MHz on the earlier build (but this is fairly typical for DDR3), and my RAM is 3200MHz on the later one. They have different versions of Windows 10 but I don't know if that affects game performance. On CPUID it shows my graphics card being used 100% but my cpu only 30-50%, so maybe the EVGA 1080 is somehow slower. Something also worth mentioning is that the 4790k build is running at 1920x1080 and the 7700k build is running at 2560x1440 and somehow getting better performance, despite the 4790k build having to render less than it's counterpart. Also I don't have many background processes while playing these games except for Steam, Avast and Discord and my idle cpu usage is only around 5%.

 

[TerryLaze]

Arma at least is very single thread focused and will show differences in core speeds much clearer then comparing your run of the mill console port,which is probably what kind of benches you've seen.
Also CPUs improve with every gen,just because the benchmark scene is still stuck in 1999 and uses the same software that hasn't adapted to the present doesn't mean there isn't any improvement,newer CPUs are much better in handling lot's of threads at once.

 

[sir.isaac.rocks]

Arma at least is very single thread focused and will show differences in core speeds much clearer then comparing your run of the mill console port,which is probably what kind of benches you've seen.
Also CPUs improve with every gen,just because the benchmark scene is still stuck in 1999 and uses the same software that hasn't adapted to the present doesn't mean there isn't any improvement,newer CPUs are much better in handling lot's of threads at once.

Would that explain less than half the performance though?

 

[TerryLaze]

Why?Are you getting less then half the performance at the same settings?

 

[sir.isaac.rocks]

Why?Are you getting less then half the performance at the same settings?

Same settings, plus 1920x1080 instead of 2560x1440, and still less than half the performance.