i5-4460 Vs i5-4590 for gaming

[heartattack007]

the price difference is only about 10 dollars between the two i was also considering getting an i3-4370 since ive heard its more than good enought to run the games I want to run, I have a EVGA GTX 760 and 8gb of ram, which should i choose? thanks for your help!

 

[Darkbreeze]

Either i5 is fine, you probably won't notice ANY difference between the two. The i3 would work as well, but you'll get better frame rates and a little smoother game play with the i5. The i3 only has 4mb of cache and two actual cores with hyperthreading. The i5's have 4 actual cores and 6mb of cache. The performance is tangible with the actual cores.

 

[heartattack007]

Im mainly trying to run dragon age Inquisition( it lagged and stuttered on my g3220) and skyrim with mods on medium to high settings, so the i5 it is?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Dragon age is more reliant on the CPU than a lot of other titles. Skyrim can be too. I'd go with the i5.

 

[heartattack007]

Thanks so much! all things considered guess ill just save the extra 10 dollars and go for the 4460

 

[rockie_]

my choice is i5 4590
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-haswell-refresh_4.html

games like Civilization V show that i5 4460 is weaker . i5 4590 is 10% faster than i5 4460 indeed.

 

[Sig2525]

4590>4460>4370

real game difference between the 4590 and the 4460 - 3 to 4 frames per second favoring the 4590 (not much of a difference like darkbreeze said) so i put my bet on the i5-4460.

 

[heartattack007]

yeah the 4460 is looking really good i mean 4fps isnt a huge deal, considering ill be hitting around 50 and im used to 30

 

[Daisy_Michael]

Consider http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4570-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4460 while buying!

 

[slyu9213]

Why is it that the 4570 is missinf some instruction sets compared to the 4460. Is this a glitch as it happens with a lot of similar Xeons too

 

[Sig2525]

Why is it that the 4570 is missinf some instruction sets compared to the 4460. Is this a glitch as it happens with a lot of similar Xeons too

i think its because the 4570 is haswell and the 4460 is haswell refresh

the original haswell version of the 4460 was the 4440.

i dunno - just correct me if im wrong because im not sure hahaha..

 

[slyu9213]

Ah that seems to make perfect sense

 

[heartattack007]

so i went ahead and shot for the 4460 since it was in stock at new egg, that along with my 760-GTX and 8gb of ram anyone know what kind of performance i cant expect?

 

[Sig2525]

so i went ahead and shot for the 4460 since it was in stock at new egg, that along with my 760-GTX and 8gb of ram anyone know what kind of performance i cant expect?

hmm i got a i5-4460 8gb 1600mhz cl9 of ram and a r9 270x which is comparable to a gtx 760

can play farcry 4 patch 1.5 at all ultra, 2x msaa, hbao+, godrays enhanced @ 1680x1050 resolution with FPS of a minimum of 27 fps and maximum of 31 fps

played crysis 3 very high textures, very high presets, fxaa, motion blur disabled, lens flare on, x16 antistrophic filtering @ 3840x1024 resolution with 30 fps minimum and 35 fps maximum

played battlefield 4 single player all ultra, msaa x4, hbao+ @ 1680x1050 with minimum 50 fps and maximum 60 fps

expect your gtx 760 to be about 5 fps faster than the r9 270x

 

[Darkbreeze]

The Haswell refresh chips DO support some instructions not supported on previous Haswell CPUs, along with some architectural changes. The differences are not outstanding and may not even be utilized for another generation as they require software engineered to take advantage of new instruction capabilities. Either chip would have been fine but newer is usually better so it's probably good you went with a refresh chip anyhow.