Dawn of War III, Deus Ex: Flesh Divided, Dirt iv

Next up nosotros have Dawn of War 3 and here the stock 2600K makes out quite poorly, dipping below 60fps. Interestingly, memory speed has no impact here either, non something I would have guessed to be honest. Manifestly a big part of the effect here is clock speed as the 2600K saw a nice 28% heave in boilerplate frame rate and 26% for the ane% low once overclocked.

It was still 23% slower than the overclocked 8700K but that's the closest we've seen yet across our medium quality tests.

Increasing the visual quality settings with the high preset changed virtually nothing as we come across almost the verbal same frame rates and equally a result the aforementioned margins.

Even with the maximum quality settings enabled we see almost no deviation in frame rate from the medium quality settings. We're patently extremely CPU bound in this championship.

That said, jumping to 1440p and at present nosotros're both CPU and GPU bound depending on which configuration you look at. Still, the overclocked 2600K was nevertheless 22% slower than the 8700K when comparison the 1% low results, only just 14% slower for the average frame rate thanks to the eighth-gen series beingness express by the GTX 1080 Ti.

Wow, here's another title where the stock 2600K looks painfully slow compared to more modernistic processors, even the 4770K is worlds faster. In fact, once over again overclocking the 2600K to 4.8GHz isn't even plenty to see it overtake the stock 4770K. When overclocked, the 2600K is 28% slower than the 8700K.

Increasing the visual quality settings to very high reduced the 28% margin seen previously to e'er so slightly to 25%.

With the ultra-quality settings enabled the 8700K and its eighth-generation cohorts slam into a GPU-based brickwall as they find themselves locked at an boilerplate of 90fps. This afforded the overclocked 2600K the opportunity to catch upwardly it's at present simply 13% slower.

That margin is reduced fifty-fifty farther at 1440p and at present the overclocked 2600K is just 3% slower as the games primary GPU bound at this point.

Moving on we have Dirt iv and this time overclocking the 2600K to 4.8GHz was enough to nudge it ahead of the stock 4770K, albeit only alee. This meant overclocked it was 27% slower than the overclocked 8700K.

Interestingly, increasing the quality preset sees the overclocked 2600K fall quite some distance behind the stock 4770K and as a result information technology's now 31% slower than the overclocked 8700K. I'm not sure what went incorrect for the 2600K hither so let's move on to the ultra quality preset to meet what we find.

Here we see a similar situation and although the overclocked 2600K has managed to shut in on the 8700K that'southward only due to the fact that the 8th-gen processor has plant the limits of the 1080 Ti. Find how the 2600K is still quite a long style behind the 4770K -- quite odd.

Even at 1440p, the overclocked 2600K trails the 4770K past quite a big margin despite nudging closer to the GPU bound 8700K. Still the 1% low event for the overclocked 2600K is surprisingly depression, here it's notwithstanding 23% slower than the 4770K.