Call of Duty WWII, Project Cars two, Rainbow Vi Siege

Moving on nosotros have Telephone call of Duty WWII and here we see when using the normal quality settings that the 5820K does quite well even before information technology'southward overclocked. Wound up to 4.6GHz, the chip is able to match the Core i5-8400 with an impressive average of 200fps and that's only x% slower than the Core i7-8700K at 4.8GHz.

Interestingly, the margin actually grows with the extra quality settings in play and now the overclocked 5820K is 14% slower than the overclocked 8700K. That's not significant, especially given that the 5820K is pushing over 110fps at all times.

At 1440p we only see a slight reduction in performance equally even here nosotros seem more than CPU than GPU limited. The 5820K remains a picayune over ten% slower than the 8700K -- here we see a thirteen% margin.

Project Cars 2 is the second to last game we're going to look at and we're again starting with the medium quality settings at 1080p. Unexpectedly, nosotros establish that the overclocked 5820K can max out the GTX 1080 Ti and therefore friction match the overclocked 8700K. This is interesting because on ultra quality, which evidently impacts CPU operation, we run into a change (you'll see it in a moment likewise).

With the ultra quality settings enabled at 1080p, the overclocked 5820K drops down and isn't much faster than its stock configuration. Notwithstanding, the overclocked 8700K remains stiff here whereas the 5820K was 16% slower.

Then at 1440p we're now heavily GPU express and all tested configurations come together with petty variation seen between the CPUs. As a result, overclocking the 5820K is of little benefit here.

The last game we tested was Rainbow Six Siege and here we see a nice 18% performance boost for the 5820K once overclocked. Using the medium quality settings, the 5820K was 12% slower than the overclocked 8700K and with well over 180fps at all times that's conspicuously a good outcome for Intel'due south older six-core CPU.

On ultra quality, the GTX 1080 Ti starts to limit the functioning of the overclocked 8700K and every bit a result the 5820K is now but ix% slower. Again we only saw frame dips to 150fps so an extremely smooth experience tin can be had with the 5820K.

Every bit we frequently find at 1440p, even with an farthermost GPU we're still generally limited by the graphics carte du jour here and now the 5820K is just v% slower than the 8700K. And then if y'all're playing at 1440p or greater, you lot're non actually going to find a difference.