Rendering, gaming, and power-draw
Rendering apps
The
Phenom II X6 1090T has the beating
of an Intel Core i7 870 at stock speeds, and it costs less, as well.
Give the 875K some juice and it pulls away, but it still cannot
challenge the six-core 980X EE.
Gaming
The solitary gaming test, run on a Radeon HD 5850, takes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 at 1,680x1,050 4xx high-quality settings. The real-world examination shows that the game is fundamentally GPU-limited at this resolution, and extra CPU cores and frequency don't matter a jot.
Sure, we could find games that scale with CPU cores, yet we believe that a decent dual-core chip is good enough for most present-day titles.
Power-draw
Idle
power-draw is defined as the number
of watts pulled, at the wall, when the system is idling in Windows 7
desktop. The same PSU is used in all cases, but the underlying chipsets
and memory allocation do differ - head back to the system setup page to
find out.
Only the X58-based chips - Intel Core i7 900-series - pull over 100W when idling. The extra voltage and frequency of the K-class chips translates to a 10W increase over default.
Only the X58-based chips - Intel Core i7 900-series - pull over 100W when idling. The extra voltage and frequency of the K-class chips translates to a 10W increase over default.
Under-load
power-draw is judged by
running wPrime and noting the peak figure. The 875K system OC pulls an
extra 65W over the default-clocked setup, with most of that
attributable to the CPU. 655K OC's modest base TDP of 73W means that
the
increase isn't as huge.
