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welcome back to harbor unboxed today we're doing a little benchmarking we're gonna play around a little bit with Assassin's Creed origins to see how it behaves with different CPUs for those of you unaware Assassin's Creed origins was recently released and it has been creating a bit of a stir in the PC tech community due to how aggressively it utilizes the CPU upon release a few media outlets scramble to the benchmarks and it quickly became apparent that the game is extremely CPU intensive and not in the way that ARMA 3 or Planet co-star for example rather than just taxing a few cause very heavily the game eats up cause lots of cause pretty much all the calls you got there are reports of it eating up a thread rippin 1920 X for example as a result modern quad cores were getting slayed and there were reports that the game was simply unplayable on the core i5 7600 K and while that certainly piqued my interest we've already seen the 7600 Kane other quad core CPU struggling in big 64 player battlefield 1 matches and while the performance isn't always ideal it certainly playable in my opinion anyway I believe it was the computer based results that have caused most of the excitement as they showed the core i5 76 Henry K getting trampled by the rise and 5 1500 X as it only managed to match the horizon 3 1300 X however it was the 1% low results that were the most shocking as the 7600 K dipped down to just 41 fps making it slightly slower than a 1300 X but I'm honestly not even sure how that's possible but let's just ignore that fact for a moment essentially the 7600 K was 30% slower than the Rison 5 1600 X and almost 40% slower than the 7700 K contradicting this information there were some results published by game GPU around three days earlier showing the 7600 K never dropping below 60 FPS and consequently beating the rise in v 1400 while easily beating the risin three CPUs the higher core count rise in part still did very well on their tests that the 7600 K hardly looked pathetic in comparison looking at where each media outlet tested as best as I can tell game GPU actually tested a more demanding sex game so that's a bit confusing therefore I decided to have a look and see if I could work out what was going on for measuring CPU performance I found that getting on your steed in this case a camel and having a drop through the open world city of Syrah is the way to go there's generally loads of non player characters here that give the CPU a pretty hard time so using a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and three quality presets let's have a look at some results in graph form before checking out some actual gameplay right so let's start with the ultra high quality preset we are using a gtx 980ti after all here the 8th gen core series is limited to just over 90 FPS on average with a 1% low result of 71 FPS the 77 Rek roughly matched the average result but was 7% slower for the minimum as it was often close to being maxed out then we see a pretty large drop from the 7600 okay which bottomed out at just 52 fps making at 21% slow in the 77 ok and 27% slower than the core i5 8400 this also meant it was quite a bit slower than Rison 7 1800 exum Rison 5 1600 X though it was shockingly quite a bit faster than the horizon 5 1500 X I would just like to point out that all CPUs were tested using the same ddr4 3200 CL 14 memory I'll touch on memory scaling with the 7600 okay a little later on in the video but for now the 7600 K as well as the 1500 expose provided highly player performance in busy sections of the game reducing the quality preset to high provides a decent performance uplift and the core i5 76 under K in particular does much better here whereas the minimum frame rate for the 1500 X was increased by 17% the 7600 K saw a massive 27% increase to 66 fps and was now able to deliver very smooth performance the 7700 K was also able to max out the GTX 1080i alongside the 8th gen core processors dropping down to the medium quality preset only boost the minimum frame rates of the core i5 7600 okay and rise and CPUs by a very small margin interestingly though it did boost the minimum and average frame rates of the core i7 7700 K as well as the 8th gen CPU is quite a bit so this does of course point to a CPU bottleneck for the 7600 and Rison CPUs here's a quick look at how the 77 okay 7600 K an r5 1,500 X scale when using various quality presets we see strong and consistent gains as the gtx 1080i is offered more breathing room with the 77 oh okay on the other hand we say that the 7600 K is pretty much maxed out when using the higher quality preset while the r5 1500 XC is virtually no improvement from high to medium okay so we've seen the graphs but I know they'll be those screaming that bar graphs don't tell the full story the 7600 K would have been a stuttering mess well in an effort to head off that noise here's a look at some gameplay footage recorded with an external capture device all footage was recorded at 1080p using the ultra high quality preset so worst case scenario then first up let's compare the six core six thread a core i5 8600 cage of the six core 12 thread rosen 5 1600 X here you can see that all six threads of the 8600 K are heavily utilized and at times the processor is in fact completely maxed out yet despite this frame rates remain high and more importantly consistent the game was certainly jitter free in my testing for those wondering the CPU isn't overclocked and multi-core enhancement isn't enabled and we also have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 memory installed again this is the same memory that was used on the rise and systems something key to note here is the GPU utilization which has locked pretty much at 97% on the 8600 K system but if we look at the r5 1600 and please note the GPU utilization figure is mixed in with the CPU thread so I am sorry about that we can see the GP utilization is usually around 80% but does fluctuate quite a bit at times drops as low as 50% and this does suggest a CPU bottleneck okay so time for the quad cores the four threaded 7600 K versus the eight thread 1500 X both CPUs were heavily utilized the 7600 K was just about consistently maxed out while the 1500 X saturd around 95% for the most part cheaper utilization was similar around 70 to 80% but at times did jump up much on the core i5 processors which is ultimately what gave at the edge under heavy load I'd say they were in much the same when the CPU was a Ford in a little breathing room the 7600 K ran away a little the key thing to note here though is that even with a heap of NPCs on screen both CPUs provided a very smooth and playable experience I think that covers pretty much everything I want to discuss here let's just let the gameplay footage complete before moving on the villages are drained of life no one in no one could make a move without being questioned threaten taxed or beaten we all have learned to obey and keep our heads down just quickly for those wondering dropping the memory speed on the 7600 K configuration a ddr4 2400 from 3200 reduce the frame rate by about 5 to 10 FPS so a decent reduction there but not that massive and the game was still very playable this wasn't a test I planned on doing this week I do have something much bigger in the works and you'll see that in the channel the next day or two so I suppose you can consider this more of a filler the main goal here was to really see how Lauren's CPUs and I don't mean low-end CPUs Laurens CPUs handle themselves Assassin's Creed origins in particular I was really Cana see the core i5 7600 cave that would get crushed in a game that we can now accurately benchmark but that wasn't to be I know the 7600 case struggles in 64 player battlefield 1 matches but despite the beliefs of many viewers it's absolutely impossible to accurately benchmark a multiplayer title there's no point walking around in an empty map or avoiding the action as that defeats the purpose entirely anyway getting back on track the 7600 kb played Assassin's Creed origins just fine and a section a game that I tested saw 0 frame hitches I'm keen to explore the game more but for now I'm satisfied that I've tested a demanding section of the game that's been tested by others with mixed results that so I'm extremely confident in my numbers and the performance shown here it was disappointing to fight the rise in 7 1800 X and R 5 16 hundreds couldn't hold a candle to the core i5 8400 despite a number of things I'd heard and seen prior to my own testing as many of you know I really liked the rise in five 1600 series and while it did lay waste to the 7600 K Intel's a rapidly aging quad core still provided playable performance and the HT naval core i7 77 RK was able to keep the 1600 X and its rear view mirrors there's certainly more testing to be done but for now I think we can all agree that Assassin's Creed hydrogen's looks to be very demanding on the CP o we'll utilize many three that said though it will also play perfectly fine on the core i5 7600 K at least for the section of the game that I've played I'm not sure if there's a more demanding section if there is I will be very happy to explore it in a future video anyway that's gonna do it for this one I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys