Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics only: to use the Intel® Iris® Xe brand, the system must be populated with 128-bit (dual channel) memory. Personally I try and benchmark a processor in a system as tweak-free as possible (the only one being to ensure that the fans are up on high for sufficient cooling).

In both circumstances the processors were mainly at their all-core turbo frequencies, (4600 MHz or 4700 MHz), briefly jumping to 5. Functionality, performance, and other benefits of this feature may vary depending on system configuration.

For the turbo, as mentioned, Intel has recommendations for power levels and turbo time in its documentation, however OEMs and motherboard manufacturers are free to routinely ignore it. Box Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (registration number 726076) as a credit intermediary and not a lender, offering credit products provided by PayPal Credit.

Why is this cheaper, and supposedly less powerful version of this silicon running at a higher turbo power in a standard off-the-shelf Intel Z490 motherboard? In this graph though, we see that in the initial phase, the Core i7-10700K is ever so slightly higher in power consumption, but when the more heavy area in the second stage comes in, both processors are about equal. wapkw=hyper+threading for more information including details on which processors support Intel® HT Technology. Intel’s stance here is quite clear: Intel is fully supportive of motherboard vendors changing these values.We’ve never felt the need to limit the turbo values, as ultimately if we were to report significantly lower performance metrics than most of our users' experience, then there would be a lot of explaining to do if we start scoring a lot lower than what users see in their systems.

Get more from your PC build by untethering with Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+), versatile connectivity with Thunderbolt™ 3, and accelerated responsiveness with Intel® Optane™ memory. Ocuk Limited trading as Overclockers UK is a credit broker, not a lender, and is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We’ve always tested processors with the typical out of the box experience with a high-end motherboard, which means that we will always get that infinite turbo performance characteristic on the processors that support it. Unfortunately no commercial reviewer has that sort of bandwidth, showing perhaps a discontinuity in how many resources Intel’s engineers think we have (they have whole performance divisions for this).Additional baselines can be obtained using Windows version of PerformanceTest's Manage Baselines feature. We also benchmark much more data than is shown in a typical review, all of which you can see in our benchmark database. I have read the benchmarks and understand it is slightly below the 10700k and reduced power but what I am confused with is the overall performance with turbo enabled.

The benchmark score for a component shown on this page is the median of all the results submitted by users with the same hardware. For more enterprise products, such as Xeon W, Intel has locked availability to specific motherboards for those parts, we use those instead.Geekbench 6 scores are calibrated against a baseline score of 2500 (which is the score of an Intel Core i7-12700). Aside from the suffix difference, the K variant has a TDP almost twice as high, and this manifests almost entirely in the base frequency difference. In this instance, I would attribute this to the fact that in the binning process, the Core i7-10700K has to have the better efficiency when all cores are loaded.