WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.490 There's an age-old question that gets asked all the time. Are all mehz the 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:12.470 same? Let's talk about that. 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:22.240 The Cooler Master Novaouch TKL utilizes genuine Toper hybrid capacitive switches 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:28.480 and is now available at a more affordable price. Click now to learn 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.880 more. Good tech tips morning. I love 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:35.600 GMM, but what we're here to talk today about is the myth of megahertz, not the 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:39.040 awesome antics of Rhett and link. So, let's set the stage. There are many 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:43.680 things that will determine a processor's effective speed when handling tasks. But 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:49.200 two of the most common ones are clock speed, which is a given, and IPC, also 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:54.079 known as instructions per clock, which you'll hear a lot when it's thrown 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:58.160 around uh as the banner of IPC improvements with every new processor 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:01.680 launch. Right about now is when I would get you guys to click on the box to go 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:07.200 check out the fastest possible episode explaining IPC, but we don't have one as 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.960 of yet. So, what I would suggest is you check out the kind of somewhat rough 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:15.280 Wikipedia article on the topic and other various sources. We'll try to get a 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.960 video about that out fairly soon. IPC isn't necessarily just as simple as it 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:24.080 sounds at first, but Intel claims generation after generation to have a 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.920 usually around 10% general improvement. Does this improvement actually amount to 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:32.400 anything? Wouldn't an old processor running at 2.4 GHz run just as well as a 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:36.880 new processor running at 2.4 gig gigahertz? And even if the improvements 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:42.320 do amount to something, will this show up in non-realworld synthetic tests 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:45.840 only, or will it actually be noticed? Let's find out. The tools of the trade 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:49.280 for today will be two different test machines. One will be Lionus' Scrapyard 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:53.840 Wars machine. You haven't seen Scrapyard Wars, first of all, I'm genuinely 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:58.640 surprised. And second of all, click here or something and then come back later. 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:00.799 We will be using the Q6600 that which is 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:04.799 running in his system at 2.4 GHz rocking four standard cores and no 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:10.080 hyperthreading alongside 8 GB of RAM and a freaking GTX 980 from uh Gigabyte 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:13.840 Windforce just to push the GPU bottleneck out of the way and see how 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:17.760 effective the processor actually is at handling things. Our second system will 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:22.560 be the standard GPU test bench machine with its smuggly running 5960X, but 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:27.840 today it won't be running normally. I've nerfed the 5960X down to 2.4 GHz and 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:31.599 four cores with no hyperthreading to match the clock speed and core count of 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:35.680 the Q6600. If you're interested in how core count can affect things, check out 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:41.440 my recent video here on cores for gaming. Then I slapped 8 GB of RAM onto 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:44.720 the bench and the same Windforce GTX 980 to even things up. In order to pit these 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.640 two systems against each other, I picked a suite of seven different benchmarks, 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:52.319 three different synthetics, and four games. I'll start up with a forum 00:02:50.959 --> 00:02:57.599 favorite, and that would be Cinebench R15. Check out the awesome Cinebench R15 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:02.800 thread and other RS actually on the forum. As you can see, there's been a 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:05.120 whopping 55% improvement. That's pretty 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:10.480 huge, even given the 7-year gap between these two processors. And with our new 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.040 fancy new chip majorly nerfed just for 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:17.680 this experiment. 3D Mark and 7zip tests were fairly similar with the 5960X 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:21.680 actually slapping around the old weary Q6600. But none of this was all that 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:26.319 surprising. But it's time to move on to stuff that you're probably more interested. Real world gaming 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:30.400 performance. First up, we have Tomb Raider, which showed essentially no 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.879 difference between the two. I really need to stop using Tomb Raider for 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:39.920 anything other than GPU tests because it really doesn't scale with anything other 00:03:36.799 --> 00:03:41.599 than GPUs at all. Well, that story was 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:46.239 boring. So, moving on. Next up, we have Far Cry 4, which as we know from the 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:50.799 course for gaming video, isn't all that CPUbound, unless you count not running 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:54.560 on dual cores. But regardless, we do see a bit of an improvement here, and that's 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.840 nothing to scoff at. But this is where it starts getting interesting. dying 00:03:56.239 --> 00:04:02.319 light. Fairly substantial difference in average FPS between the Q6600 dipping 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:08.000 all the way down to 15 FPS at times for minimums and the 5960X holding a cool 25 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:11.519 FPS for minimums. Also note that whenever there was a slightly more 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:16.320 intense zombie action going on, it would chug a bit and even crashed a few times 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:18.639 on the Q6600. Not a great experience. 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:22.800 Last of all, and oh did I save the best for last, is City's Skylines. We just 00:04:21.359 --> 00:04:27.759 recently introduced this game into our testing suite, and damn does it love 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:32.720 processors, and it really shows here with the Q6600. There were stutters all 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:36.720 freaking over the place. It couldn't run 4K, and it was barely able to manage 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:42.560 itself at 1080p, and it was just a horrible experience. Meanwhile, the 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:44.320 5960X was just chilling. No big deal. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:48.320 So, in conclusion, what does all this mean? Well, I hope it helped to show how 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:52.639 things can improve more drastically over time than most the easyto read specs 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:56.720 actually show. If you're already happy with your late gen processor, you don't 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:59.759 need to run out and replace it this second. That's doesn't matter. There are 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:04.240 always other things that you can do as well. Overclocking can help a ton and 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:08.639 you can just not run all your games at max like we just did. That can help too. 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:12.479 But if you are a speed freak and you've been struggling to figure out why your 00:05:10.320 --> 00:05:16.080 older overclocked processor isn't performing quite as well as your buddy's 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.400 stock processor running at the same frequencies, hopefully this will help. 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:23.680 Speaking of better than dessert, Crunchyroll. If you're a fan of anime 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:27.600 and haven't signed up for Crunchyroll Premium yet, you should certainly give 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:32.000 them a shot. Crunchyroll is a site created by anime fans for the other 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:36.560 anime fans. 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