Question What to Make of Benchmarkers?

[StephenPlunkett]

I bought a Intel i7-11700K CPU expecting a boost in performance and got none. Then I bought a ASUS Z590 ROG Maximus Hero XIII and got none either. Benchmarkers say mixed things about my CPU. 3DMark puts around 1000 points below par. Cinebench usually rates the same average to spectacular. Geekbench rates single-core high and multi a little below par. Passmark puts the The CPUat 76-86%. Who should I trust? What might boost me? My other hardware is 16 GB 3200Hz. RAM, ASUS Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080ti GPU, WD Blue 250GB SSD, Thermaltake Titanium 1250W PSU.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

What was your previous CPU? What are you doing with your system to notice no performance? Gaming, rendering, other? What is your measure of performance?

 

[Lafong]

Did you build the PC to run benchmarks?

Or does it have some other purpose?

 

[Bob.B]

I bought a Intel i7-11700K CPU expecting a boost in performance and got none. Then I bought a ASUS Z590 ROG Maximus Hero XIII and got none either. Benchmarkers say mixed things about my CPU. 3DMark puts around 1000 points below par. Cinebench usually rates the same average to spectacular. Geekbench rates single-core high and multi a little below par. Passmark puts the The CPUat 76-86%. Who should I trust? What might boost me? My other hardware is 16 GB 3200Hz. RAM, ASUS Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080ti GPU, WD Blue 250GB SSD, Thermaltake Titanium 1250W PSU.

Don't know what you came from or how your measuring perf boost but let's see if something shows.

Download this.

UBM

Reboot.
Wait a few mins.
Run ubm with the browser closed.
Post a LINK to the results page.

 

[sizzling]

Are the averages your cpu is being compared to being skewed by people who overclock their 11700k?

 

[Paulie walnuts1888]

I was also disappointed in gaming boost from 10th to 11 gen, supposed 19% ipc boost but definitely didnt seem like it, the per watt is also absolutely terrible on 11th gen lol

and I have been able to get 11900k to 6ghz with some tweaking ( cores disabled, extreme cooling etc) but have had nearly 0 gaming bump even w very high mem clock

 

[StephenPlunkett]

What was your previous CPU? What are you doing with your system to notice no performance? Gaming, rendering, other? What is your measure of performance?

An Intel i510600K. Benchmarking. Benchmarks.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Did you build the PC to run benchmarks?

Or does it have some other purpose?

Gaming.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

What was your previous CPU? What are you doing with your system to notice no performance? Gaming, rendering, other? What is your measure of performance?

I have a gaming system.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Don't know what you came from or how your measuring perf boost but let's see if something shows.

Download this.

UBM

Reboot.
Wait a few mins.
Run ubm with the browser closed.
Post a LINK to the results page.

It seems to think everything's fine. Asus ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO Performance Results - UserBenchmark

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Are the averages your cpu is being compared to being skewed by people who overclock their 11700k?

I think so.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Don't know what you came from or how your measuring perf boost but let's see if something shows.

Download this.

UBM

Reboot.
Wait a few mins.
Run ubm with the browser closed.
Post a LINK to the results page.

It replaced an Intel i5-10600K CPU.

 

[Paulie walnuts1888]

funny enough i went from a 10600k to 11700k/11900k, per watt the 10600k completely destroys it and I swear in some games the 11700k/11900k just does worse. try enabling 6 cores on 11700k to compare directly to 10600k, per watt its hilariously worse than 10600k

 

[Bob.B]

It seems to think everything's fine. Asus ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO Performance Results - UserBenchmark

You might want to update the bios and check the chipset driver.

ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO

ROG Maximus XIII Hero Intel® Z590 ATX motherboard delivers considerable performance and an optimized thermal solution, and includes AI Overclocking, AI Cooling and Aura Sync lighting.

rog.asus.com

Unplug the usb disk and rerun ubm.

 

[faalin]

You swapped out CPU and Motherboard, did you do a fresh install of windows? Did you update any of the motherboard drivers after the switch?

 

[StephenPlunkett]

You might want to update the bios and check the chipset driver.

ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO

ROG Maximus XIII Hero Intel® Z590 ATX motherboard delivers considerable performance and an optimized thermal solution, and includes AI Overclocking, AI Cooling and Aura Sync lighting.

rog.asus.com

Unplug the usb disk and rerun ubm.

Here's the results without USB drives. Asus ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO Performance Results - UserBenchmark Reinstalling BIOS and chipset made no discerrnible difference

 

[Bob.B]

Here's the results without USB drives. Asus ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO Performance Results - UserBenchmark Reinstalling BIOS and chipset made no discerrnible difference

Ok that's better now ubm can test the disks.

It does not look like you updated the bios.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Ok that's better now ubm can test the disks.

It does not look like you updated the bios.

I re-installed it. Is there a difference?

 

[StephenPlunkett]

I re-installed it. Is there a difference?

I re-installed it. Is there a difference?

Version 1402.

 

[Bob.B]

Version 1402.

Run ubm and post a link.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Run ubm and post a link.

Asus ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO Performance Results - UserBenchmark

 

[Bob.B]

Asus ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO Performance Results - UserBenchmark

Ubm is still showing the old bios.

You might want to review the proper bios update method.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Ubm is still showing the old bios.

You might want to review the proper bios update method.

Ubm is still showing the old bios.

You might want to review the proper bios update method.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/56239033 I used the EZ-Flash Utility

 

[Bob.B]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/56239033 I used the EZ-Flash Utility

Look in the bios and see if it shows version 1402.

 

[StephenPlunkett]

Look in the bios and see if it shows version 1402.

It does.