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Intel Core i7-4770K CPU Review - Intel Haswell For Desktop (Part 5)

9/8/2013 9:16:04 AM

Application performance

In order to check the processor ability in the process of data achieving, we use WinRAR archiving utility. For files with the total size of 1.7GB, we use the maximum compressing rate.

WinRAR 5.0

WinRAR 5.0

The performances of Core i7 4770K and Core i7 3770K, which represent two different types of microarchitectures, are almost indifferent in the compression test. We hope to see faster L1 and L2 caches in order to realize some positive effect of Haswell, but it must be good enough to compensate for the increased latency of the L3 in this case.

The cryptographic process performance is measured by using a built-in benchmark of popular utilities like TrueCrypt using AES Twofish-Serpent “triple” encryption. This utility, we must say, not only effectively loads any number of cores with work, but also supports special AES instructions.

TrueCrypt 7.1a

TrueCrypt 7.1a

All of the benefits of the new Haswell microarchitecture are clearly explained by the 5% advantage of Core I 4770K then Core i7 3770K (where both processors work at the same speed), but it is not enough for the most senior LGA11500 CPUs to catch up with AMD Piledriver. However, Intel fans would never be discouraged. The TrueCrypt cryptography is just temporary when the eight-core AMD FX 8350 is faster than Core i7 4770K.

To check the audio transcoding speed into mp3, Xilisoft Audio Converter 6.4 utility has been used. During this test, we convert the audio albums which are saved as flac lose less format.

Xilisoft Audio Converter 6.4

Xilisoft Audio Converter 6.4

Mp3 files are compressed quickly by Xilisoft Audio Converter. However, the Haswell processor fulfills this task even quicker compare to the Core i7 3770K.

As the ninth version of the popular science Wolfram Mathematica suite is available, we decide to bring it back as one of our regular standards, so the integrated Mathematica Mark9 has been used in this software to check for the system performance

Mathematica Mark9

Mathematica Mark9

Not all of the computing conducting in Mathematica can be split in parallel threads efficiently. However, Core i7 4770K reveals the advantage of up to 11% compared to the Ivy Bridge processor when working at same clock rate and therefore even faster than the a 1000-dollar heavy-weight Core i7 3970.

We measure the performance in Adobe Photoshop CS6 using our benchmark, which is made of Retouch Artists Photoshop Speed Test in which we made some creative modification. It consists of typical editing of four 24-megapixel image from a digital camera.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

Here, the new microarchitecture just shows the increase of 6%. After two generations of processor, Intel is just able to increase the performance in Photoshop 12%: this is the difference between the testing scenarios running on Core i7 4770K and Core i7 3820. Unfortunately, this is rather not enough to be considered as a reasonable argument for the benefit of an upgrade.

We make some tests also in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4. The testing scenarios includes after editing and exporting as JPEG format of two hundred 12-megapixel RAW images.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroon 4.4

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4

The result for this is nearly similar to that of the test in Photoshop. The performance of Intel’s quad-core processor does not show a significant increase from the year of 2011, when Sandy Bridge microarchitecture appears.

The performance in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is determined by the required time to render a Blu-ray project with a 1080p25 HDV movie into H.264 format and apply different special effects on it.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

High definition video is one of the best types of multi-core processors. Therefore, Haswell seems to have much advantage in this aspect compared to other tests: more efficient Hyper-Thread technology starts to be more important. However, the measured difference between the performances of Core i7 4770K and Core i7 3770K still remains in one-digit percent.

In order to measure the speed of the tested models, we convert the video codes into H.264 format and then using x264 HD Benchmark 5.0. It works with an original MPEG-2 video recorded at the resolution of 1080p with 20 Mbps bit rate. We can say that the result for these tests does have very significant practical meaning, as the x264 codec is a part of other popular transcoding utilities, such as HandBrake, MeGUI, VirtualDub, etc.

X264 HD Benchmark 5.0

X264 HD Benchmark 5.0

X264 HD Benchmark 5.0

X264 HD Benchmark 5.0

In H.264/AVC video, compared with the Ivy Bridge CPU which working at same clock frequency, transcoding Haswell achieves the highest performance boost. It is equivalent to 13%, making Core i7 4770K faster than AMD FX-8350, which used to perform better in transcoding tasks. Therefore, it seems that Haswell’s release has tried to take over the AMD processors’ position, making them less attracting to users. Obviously, AMD need to reduce the price of Socket AM3+ processor once again.

We will check the computing performance and the rendering speed in Autodesk 3ds max 2011 by using SPECapc, especially for benchmark 3ds max 2011:

3ds max 2011

3ds max 2011

3ds max 2011

3ds max 2011

Rendering is an example of a multi-threaded task. That is why we see a 15% advantage of the new processor compared to its predecessors. The advantage of Core i7 4770K than Core i7 3820 even exceed 20%. However, during the entire test, we hardly see any impressive performance increase, which we have caught in the synthetic tests. Unfortunately, the modern software still yet supports AVX2/FMA3 although FM3 suites have been supported by AMD processors for more than one year.

 

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