Test Methodology
Intel Core i5-4690K Specification |
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Comparison Processor Configurations |
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| CPU | Intel |
AMD |
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Pentium G3220 |
Core i3-4330 |
Core i5-4670 |
Core i5-4690K |
Core i7-4770K |
Core i7-4790K |
Athlon 5350 |
A8-7600K |
A10-7850K |
A8-6500T |
A10-6800K |
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| CPU TDP | 53W |
53W |
84W |
88W |
84W |
88W |
25W |
65W/45W |
95W |
65W |
100W |
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| Socket | LGA 1150 |
LGA 1150 |
LGA 1150 |
LGA 1150 |
LGA 1150 |
LGA 1150 |
AM1 |
FM2+ |
FM2+ |
FM2 |
FM2 |
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| Fabrication | 22nm |
22nm |
22nm |
22nm |
22nm |
22nm |
28nm |
28nm |
28nm |
32nm |
32nm |
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| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z87M-D3H |
Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP |
Asus Z97-A |
ASRock AM1B-ITX+ |
ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+ |
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| BIOS | F9 |
F5 |
1008 |
1.0 |
1.90 |
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| DDR3 Memory | Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) |
AMD Gamer Series 16GB (2x8GB) |
AMD Gamer Series 4GB (1x4GB) |
AMD Gamer Series 16GB (2x8GB) |
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| Memory Timings | 9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,600MHz |
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,866MHz |
9-9-9-28-2T @ 1,600MHz |
10-11-11-28-2T @ 2,133MHz |
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,600MHz |
10-11-11-28-2T @ 2,133MHz |
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| Integrated Graphics | HD Graphics |
HD 4600 |
HD 4600 |
HD 4600 |
HD 4600 |
HD 4600 |
Radeon R3 |
Radeon R7 |
Radeon R7 |
HD 8550D |
HD 8670D |
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| Disk Drive | Crucial M500 240GB |
Samsung 840 Pro 250GB |
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| Power Supply | Corsair VS450 (450W) |
Corsair AX760i (760W) |
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| Operating System | Windows 8.1 64-bit |
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CPU and Memory Benchmarks |
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| HEXUS PiFast | Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places | |||||||||||
| CineBench R15 | Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores | |||||||||||
| wPrime 2.1.0 | Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads | |||||||||||
| AIDA64 v4.00.2746 | Benchmark that analyses memory bandwidth and latency | |||||||||||
Multimedia Benchmarks |
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| LuxMark 2.0 | An OpenCL rendering benchmark | |||||||||||
| MuseMage 1.9.6 | An OpenCL image-manipulation benchmark (64-bit) | |||||||||||
| HandBrake 0.9.9.1 | Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores (64-bit) | |||||||||||
System Benchmarks |
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| PCMark 8 v2.0 | System-wide examination that uses the Home preset, run with OpenCL acceleration | |||||||||||
| 3DMark | DX11, run at the Fire Strike default test | |||||||||||
| SiSoft Sandra 2014 | Aggregate score that takes a composite of 12 system-wide benchmarks | |||||||||||
Gaming Benchmarks |
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| BioShock Infinite | DX9, 1,280x720, medium quality | |||||||||||
| GRID 2 | DX9, 1,280x720, high quality | |||||||||||
| Total War: Rome II | DX9, 1,280x720, medium quality | |||||||||||
Miscellaneous Benchmarks |
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| Power Consumption | While idling and when running wPrime and GRID 2 | |||||||||||
Notes
We've benchmarked the Core i5-4690K in two ways. Running stock numbers shows us how it stacks up against a bevy of available chips. But, as you know, Devil's Canyon CPUs are all about overclocking. It is with some disappointment that we report unexpectedly low overclocking on our sample.
Kept in check by a Corsair Hydro Series H75 cooler, the chip, operating at a default 1.025V, runs at 48°C under Prime95 load. Increasing the core speeds requires additional voltage and we settled on an all-core 4.4GHz at 1.24V, rising to 4.5GHz when running one or two threads. Temperatures peaked at 70°C and increasing the voltage further provided no improvement in all-core frequency. The numbers are decidedly poor - standard Haswell processors run at this frequency without issue - so we can only surmise that the very initial batch of engineering-sample Devil's Canyon chips are uniformly poor at overclocking.
