I7-2600K vs 4690K

[Guest]

So the title pretty much sums it up I have an I3-3240 at the moment and I was wandering is the a huge difference between the two chips I do light gaming like CS:GO once in a while and I also do some Video editing. I can afford the I7-2600K but I can also buy a LGA 1150 Motherboard and a Pentium G3258 and in the future upgrade to the I5-4690K or shall i stick to the I7-2600K. I just want some light on this situation.

Which performs better in Games are there any Benchmarks and will games use hyper-threading in the future

Which performs better in Video editing are there any benchmarks

 

[KKAW]

So the title pretty much sums it up I have an I3-3240 at the moment and I was wandering is the a huge difference between the two chips I do light gaming like CS:GO once in a while and I also do some Video editing. I can afford the I7-2600K but I can also buy a LGA 1150 Motherboard and a Pentium G3258 and in the future upgrade to the I5-4690K or shall i stick to the I7-2600K

Honestly i would stick with the i7 2700K until you have enough money to save up for skylake i5 6600K.
The performance different in games will be significant from the 2700K to 6600K.

The pentium will be displeasing until you can upgrade to a i5 4690K or i7 6700K

In the mean time you could overclock your CPU if you have the motherboard and cooler that can support it.

 

[spagalicious]

Do you find that the current performance you get in games like CS:GO is severely lacking? Choppy, laggy, etc? If you are playing 1080p on a 60Hz monitor, any upgrade that pushes your framerate above 60 FPS will be lost to the limits of 60Hz.

Video editing is a different story. You will see night and day differences in encoding video due to the major increase in multicore performance.

I would say grab a 2600K if you really need the additional performance. Of course the 4690k and new mobo will offer better performance but if a 2600k is enough, then why not save some money? You can pick up a used 2600k for like $90.

 

[Bossyfins]

2700k > 4690k. b=By going to a i5, you lose your hyperthreading, so unless you get another i7, not worthwhile at all. Just OC that i7 and you'd be set

 

[FunSurfer]

To OP - If you want to compare the i7-2600K to the i5-4670K in gaming performance and HT usage, you can enter the site gamegpu (search for "gamegpu gta v test" or "gamegpu the witcher 3 test" for instance). There is a CPU benchmark with the i7-2600K and the i5-4670K and after that a core benchmark with the i7-2600K, if you see equal performance across all 8 threads it means a good HT usage.
From what I seen the i5-4670K is usually 1%-10% better than the i7-2600K so the i7-4690k will do a little better.
Also there seems to be a good 8-thread usage in games from this year.

 

[FunSurfer]

To OP - If you want to compare the i7-2600K to the i5-4670K in gaming performance and HT usage, you can enter the site gamegpu (search for "gamegpu gta v test" or "gamegpu the witcher 3 test" for instance). There is a CPU benchmark with the i7-2600K and the i5-4670K and after that a core benchmark with the i7-2600K, if you see equal performance across all 8 threads it means a good HT usage.
From what I seen the i5-4670K is usually 1%-10% better than the i7-2600K so the i7-4690k will do a little better.
Also there seems to be a good 8-thread usage in games from this year.

 

[Shneiky]

I have a 2700K and I use my computer mainly for VRay (with Maya) rendering, NUKE, After Effects and Premier Pro.

The 2600/2700K is faster than a 4690K at the same frequency. The 2700K falls between a 4690K and a 4770K at at stock, albeit a little closer to the I5 than to the 4770k. There is no reason for you to shell out for an LGA 1150 motherboard. If you want a new platform - 6700K is the way to go. Even the 6600K is not a good option considering the new motherboard and DDR4 needed to be purchased. In productivity the 2700K and 6600K are rather similar.

In my own benchmarks, depending on the software - Hyperthreading adds a healthy 20-30% productivity if you are running 4 physical cores. Around 15-20% for most 2D softwares and up to 30% for 3D render engines - which is enough to overtake Haswell I5s.

 

[coozie7]

For raw performance the i7 wins hands down.
With 4 full cores and 8 threads it'll really make a difference to the video side-if your software can make use of them-it's not far off the raw power of an i5 4690K in single threaded applications and can outpace the newer chip in applications that take advantage of its Hyperthreading: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2014/07/03/intel-core-i5-4690k-review/1 so as an upgrade on a tight budget it makes a huge amount of sense.

 

[spentshells]

After reading your post (it seems most didn't) Just get the 2600K, you don't need to buy an entirely new platform which saves you money and it doesn't perform that far from the 4690 in a lot of situations as mentioned by everyone else. They are both fine gaming processors but the 2600k is going to be the cheaper option and it won't be noticeably slower when gaming.

 

[spagalicious]

After reading your post (it seems most didn't) Just get the 2600K, you don't need to buy an entirely new platform which saves you money and it doesn't perform that far from the 4690 in a lot of situations as mentioned by everyone else. They are both fine gaming processors but the 2600k is going to be the cheaper option and it won't be noticeably slower when gaming.

Exactly. Throw a used 2600K in there for less than $100 and call it a day until OP can afford to fully upgrade to skylake (processor, DDR4, mobo) or future generations.

OP, here are some video encoding benchmarks for the 2600K from Anandtech.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/16

 

[Guest]

Thanks everyone for the Answers, I appreciate it I think by the looks of it Im going to go with the I7-2600K.