Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

[mendieta]

Ok, then let's do a price comparison here, what the best bang for your computing buck? I'm using the same very popular shop for all parts.

$179.98 basic A10-5800K system

$264.98 basic FX-8350 system

$414.98 basic i7-4770K system

I'm assuming that ram, psu, drives and case are identical across all systems and thus left out of the comparison.

Sure, I actually said the same thing in my first post in this thread. AMD has better performance/price ratio for sure, for CPU. And as you noted, when you compound this with least expensive mobo's, the difference is really substantial, in terms of value. On the integrated graphics, AMD was much better, and now that Intel is catching up, the perforance is similar but AMD again provides better value.

Your comparison is lacking a bit, though, in hat the FX-8350 needs a ~$70 discreet card to compete with the i7-4770K. This brings it to $335, which is 20% cheaper than the Intel solution. Not a huge difference, but sure, a better value.

The A10-5800K is a better value as compared to Intel if you put apples to apples. But it's at a different ballpark altogether.

Thanks for the figures!

[Michael]

There is also

AMD HD 8660D with Catalyst drivers (just released, Richland)
AMD HD 8660D with Open Source drivers

Except that I haven't gotten any hardware out of AMD in a long time now...

[mendieta]

If you are going to test the IGPs I hope you will test

The common Intel HD 4600
The mobile/BGA Intel Iris Pro 5200
AMD HD 7660D with Catalyst drivers
AMD HD 7660D with Open Source drivers

There is also

AMD HD 8660D with Catalyst drivers (just released, Richland)
AMD HD 8660D with Open Source drivers

At least in Windows, for what I've seen, Richland is 25% or so faster than Trinity. It also has a higher overclocking ceiling (http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/15...or-steamroller)

[bartsch]

At least one propagated feature is missing: SMAP

Phoronix: Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

This past weekend I shared the first experiences of running Intel's new Haswell CPU on Linux. While Intel Haswell is a beast and brings many new features and innovations to the new Core CPUs ...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=18754

What I'm missing in the /proc/cpuinfo output of the i7 4770K and the engineering sample I've at hand is SMAP. Though it's uninteresting for graphics stuff and benchmarking, but it has been propagated in every article I can find about Haswell.

So, I'm wondering: where is it? Does anyone has serious informations why it's not there?

SMAP - Supervisor mode access prevention: http://lwn.net/Articles/517475/

[mendieta]

Sounds like the issue might just be a feature that defaults to off in radeon but on in the intel driver. Not sure what current state is, but floating point textures and texture compression/s3tc used to be the main areas.

Thanks, Bridgman, I'll take a look again. There is some debug info available on the command line, it's just a matter of having the time to chase it ... cheers!

[GreatEmerald]

Intel HD 4600 graphics

No, it's Intel HD Graphics 4600. Check Intel ARK if you want to be sure. Hence why it's appropriate to call it HDG 4600 and it won't be confused with AMD Radeon HD 4600 line of graphics cards.

The Xonotic temperature measurements are definitely not right. The A10 average temperature is 5 degrees? That's physically impossible...

[curaga]

It will be very good to test Wine with those GPUs and some first rate MMO like Guild_Wars_2 or Tera_online.

How do you propose getting a repeatable, offline test profile for a MMO?

[YAFU]

Under full load the difference between 3770k and 8350 is of about 40-80W, depending of specific hardware and task. You can use the same PSU for both. Cheap motherboards for installing top chips? That is like purchasing a Ferrari or a Porsche and then using the cheapest tires that you can find...

In Asus, a cheap motherboard is very good hardware anyway. In Asus for Intel, the cheap motherboards (P8xxx common models for example) and Top models (Pro - Sabertooth - Maximus) not have practically differences in CPU performance. The difference is much smaller if models have similar chipset. Top Motherboards have better configurations in PCI-e Crossfire/SLI, Back IO Ports and extreme OC cooling. You can buy an cheap model from Asus and rest assured that the CPU will work like a Ferrari anyway.

[artivision]

If you are going to test the IGPs I hope you will test

The common Intel HD 4600
The mobile/BGA Intel Iris Pro 5200
AMD HD 7660D with Catalyst drivers
AMD HD 7660D with Open Source drivers

It will be very good to test Wine with those GPUs and some first rate MMO like Guild_Wars_2 or Tera_online. Plus the two main Wine engines, default GLSL and WineD3D (winetricks glsl=disabled).

[erendorn]

Under full load the difference between 3770k and 8350 is of about 40-80W, depending of specific hardware and task. You can use the same PSU for both. Cheap motherboards for installing top chips? That is like purchasing a Ferrari or a Porsche and then using the cheapest tires that you can find...

I'd happily see how much a cheap motherboard impacts CPU benchmarks.
Probably not as much as a car tires..