Is it worth upgrading my I7 4770 to a i7 6700k

[killastrra]

I know its better but is it unbelievably better. I dont overclock. If I did swap it I would also have to buy another motherboard. Thanks

 

[Samer1970]

dont bother , not worth it. put the money in GTX 1070 or GTX 1060 better thing to do

 

[Woohoopy]

The 6700k has 19% average better performance than the 4700.

Since you do not overclock, and since the CPU costs upward of $325, the definitive answer is no.

You are not getting CPU bottlenecked in games any time soon, and there is no difference in core count for workstation applications.

Cheers mate hope this helped, you have a great CPU already that you can get quite a few more years of performance out of.

 

[JQB45]

The 6700k has 19% average better performance than the 4700.

Where did you get 19%? According to passmark its closer to 10.72% difference in performance.

http://cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=1907&cmp%5B%5D=2565

Definitely not worth upgrading from the i7-4770 to the i7-6700k

 

[Woohoopy]

Where did you get 19%?

(http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K/3502vs1537)

That's with the "K" edition, 24% difference without it according to this:

(http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770/3502vs1978)

 

[synphul]

I wouldn't put too much stock in passmark, it doesn't really represent real world performance. It scores the fx 8350 higher than an i5 yet in real world programs the i5 outperforms it. Theory isn't reality. It's a generic and loose guide at best.

I'm not sure which programs you're using, if it's encoding, gaming or what. In some programs like video encoding the 6700k has a slight advantage, in gaming almost no difference other than a couple of games. This is a comparison of the 4770k but it's clocked the same as a 4770 at stock so they're interchangeable in these bench results.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/836?vs=1543

I think 20% performance is a bit of a perfect world performance increase rather than real world especially when you consider a cpu spends much of its time idling unless you've got it crunching numbers like folding or something or hour after hour of video encoding.

If you swap to a 6700k you'll need a cpu cooler (it doesn't come with one, the 6700 non k does), a new motherboard and new ram (ddr4) which significantly adds to the cost and further waters down the performance per dollar increase. Long story short, no it's not worlds apart better. It's only 2 generations ahead and that's including the almost nonexistent broadwell i7 whose ipc improvements are easily offset by its lower clock speed so no real advance there.