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Ashes of the Singularity Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity Escalation is a Sci-Fi real-time strategy game built for the PC platform. The game includes a built-in benchmark tool with DirectX 12 support. We run the CPU-focused benchmark using DirectX 12, a 1080p resolution and the Extreme quality preset.
Ghost Recon Wildlands
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is an open world tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris. It is the tenth instalment in the Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon franchise and is the first Ghost Recon game to feature an open world environment.
We run the built-in benchmark using a 1080P resolution and the Very High quality preset.
Total War: Warhammer
Total War: Warhammer is another title which features both DX11 and DX12 modes. Heavy loading can be placed on the CPU using the built-in benchmark. The DX12 mode is poorly optimised and tries to force data through a low number of CPU threads rather than balance operations across multiple cores. As such, this gives a good look at pure gaming performance of each CPU in titles that aren't well multi-threaded.
We run the built-in benchmark using the DirectX 12 mode, a 1080p resolution, and the Ultra quality preset.
Gaming Performance Overview:
Despite being heavily multi-threaded, Ashes of the Singularity Escalation positions the Core i7-7740X in a favourable position against AMD Ryzen competitors. The Kaby Lake-X CPU's performance is very similar to that of the Kaby Lake i7-7700K, unsurprisingly.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Total War: Warhammer both spring the 7740X to the top of the charts. Ghost Recon is well multi-threaded but still benefits from the Kaby Lake-X CPU's high clock speed. Even in its DX12 mode, Total War shoves data through a small number of threads, pinning one of them at 100% usage, and therefore becomes a race for clock speed and a strong, balanced architecture.
Gaming performance in DX12 titles is very strong with the Core i7-7740X. However, it is not significantly different to the performance shown by the 7700K and the only gaps will be driven by overclocking capacity on either CPU.
Nice review.
A complete fail from Intel
man i might have to drop kitguru review soon. cant we get a simpler comparison at all these at same frequency? and the power consumption chart simply states 7700k or 7740X and respective “OC” as to what that OC is i’d have to flip back and forth between two browser tabs to your test methodology page.
also im going to assume on power consumption page, the first graph is cinebench? cause the 2nd graph has title says cinebench but first one doesnt..?
finally, if you can please add a drop down menu which page to jump not ONLY at the top of the review but also at the bottom of the review. bottom of the review only has pages to jump to from 1 to 10 and have no idea which is which, making it more work having to guess. power users like to be quick and efficient, was hoping this review be the same.
jobsworth.
Hi. We used to put the speed of the CPU in the chart next to its name but this was taking up a large amount of space on the chart and compressing the data area, making the results more difficult to read. Thanks for the feedback, though, as it shows that there is still adjustment to do for readability improvements on the charts.
Yes, the first chart shows Idle, Cinebench Load, and AIDA 64 stress test power numbers. These are all listed in the key in the bottom-left corner of the chart. That’s normal for charts showing more than one piece of data where the information pertaining to the tests run would not make sense (or fit) in the title.
I much prefer the less cluttered views for the record. But I’ve got a good memory for numbers.