[SOLVED] Tom's Hardware's Legacy Desktop Processor Hierarchy Question

[clutchc]

Scrolling down to the above mentioned chart on the CPU Hierarchy 2019: Intel and AMD Processors Ranked page, it appears the 1st tier of processors encompasses a huge group of seemingly unequal CPUs. Even for just purely gaming. From a $900 10c/20t Skylake-X i9 to a mid-range 4c/4t Ivy Bridge i5. Surely I must be missing something in their logic?

(Btw, the i7-8700K appears twice in the same tier. Typo, no doubt.)

 

[Eximo]

It just needs to be updated from scratch using a standard test suite of games and/or benchmarks. Preferably weighted with newer titles so the older CPUs drop out of the top tiers.

I don't think anyone really has the time or components except a few professional reviewers. And they usually do some reviews with something specific in mind. Like saying how good is the i5-3570k compared to today?

And to be fair, you can still run most games with an i5-3570k, not ideally, but it will at least work.

Same with the legacy GPU chart. The most common questions I see regarding GPUs aren't possible to answer on that chart. Always wanting to know if their OEM or worse integrated graphics is on par with some other obscure card. A lot of effort to get all the mobile devices on their, and given the control OEMs have over clock speeds, power output, and cooling, hard to be definitive.

I find myself relying more and more on user benchmark...at least for low end stuff. Gamer's Nexus for anything worthwhile (They go into almost too much detail). But I also find annoying gaps in even their data.

 

[Danra]

Were you looking for an answer to a question?

 

[clutchc]

Were you looking for an answer to a question?

Yes. I was wondering if I was missing something in their logic. The fact that there was such a massive span of unequal processors in that first tier. All roughly the same for gaming? Seriously? The "old" Hierarchy Chart didn't used to be like that.

I'm with Eximo; User Benchmark seems more logical for a quick comparison check (albeit an 'on-paper' comparison). Tom's Hierarchy Carts used to be my go-to reference for a quick and dirty comparison.