Three new Haswell Desktop processor test

Recently, Intel released three new Haswell core desktop processors, respectively, i7-4790, i5-4690 and i3-4360, using better thermal conductivity and packaging materials, so the frequency is higher, theoretical performance is stronger. At the same time, the 9 Series Chip Group also came out together, joined the SATA Express and m.2, such as fast storage technology support, the largest 16GB cache boot technology, the overall performance is more powerful.

Three new Haswell Desktop processor parameters

Although the market for desktop PCs is getting smaller, desktop-level processors are still the main business component of Intel. On the one hand, touch screen machine, NUC and other small PC devices are gradually users attention, while the desktop processor will eventually launch mobile version of the brain, notebook computer, so three new version of the Haswell processor still has a certain significance. So how are they performing? Let's take a look at the actual software applications and integrated graphics games to test their performance.

I. Practical application Test

File compression: WinRAR 5.01 (the lower the score the better)

We use win RAR 5.01 software to compress a 2,867 files, 320 folders, a total size of about 1.52GB of mixed file content (including Web site files, 720P video, etc.), get the above test data. Take the core i7-4790 as an example, in with the previous version i7-4770k the same power consumption (84W), i7-4790 compression time shortened by about 5.29 seconds, indicating that better packaging and thermal conductivity did bring some real progress, although the gap is not small.

Video conversion: Xilisoft Converter 7 (the lower the score the better)

In terms of video conversion, we used two different versions of the video for testing, a 10-minute 4K (3840 x4320) content, a DVD rip video for 640*266 pixels, for the simple reason that low-resolution video can be used more with RAM The test results are more single-threaded, and 4K video requires more multithreading assistance.

From the results can be seen, three new version of Haswell desktop processors in a single thread or multithreading, have a decent performance, leading the previous generation of products.

Two. Actual Game performance Test

"F1 2013" (1280*1024 resolution, low quality) average frame rate level

"Biochemical Surprise" (1280*1024 resolution, low quality) average frame rate level

The three new Haswell desktop processor still has the Intel HD 4,600 set Cheng Xianka, and we find that their game performance is basically lower than the previous one, perhaps because the game has not yet been optimized for the new processor, although the gap is not as small as before, but it is somewhat disappointing.

Summarize

As a simple upgrade of the main frequency of the small upgrading of the processor, i7-4790, i5-4690 and i3-4360 overall performance improvement is mainly concentrated in a small processor performance and power loss, after all, the architecture has not undergone a real change. Of course, their prices are consistent with the previous one, so it is also very suitable to buy when installed. Of course, with the mobile platform as King today, we may be more looking forward to the advent of mobile version, even a small performance and power loss, for the portable Experience notebook, a hybrid computer is also more meaningful.