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welcome back to harbor unboxed today we're doing more benchmarking and well this one is quite interesting a few days ago I compared some high-end more expensive eight core CPUs but the week prior to that we did receive the affordable 4 quart rising 3 CPUs so I've shifted gears yet again back to those affordable C fuses there was quite a bit more testing now I wanted to do speaking of which this will be sort of just a part 1 of what will be at least a three part benchmark series but I'll talk about that a bit later on in the video for this video which I have boldly titles arising through the ultimate gaming benchmark guide will follow the same format as my Pentium G 4560 the ultimate gaming benchmark guide I published that video back in January of this year and at the time Hardware unboxed it had about 45,000 subscribers but the video did well and now has over 180,000 views over 4000 likes and less than a hundred disease so whoo needless to say a lot of you really enjoyed that format and that's the reason why I've decided to do it again for those of you that didn't see the pentium g 4560 video the idea here is to test CPU game and performance with a number of different tiered GPUs so for this video we'll be benchmarking the rise in three CPUs long so few competing processors from Intel using the geforce gtx 1060 gtx 1070 and gtx 10a all at 1080p although I am only testing a single resolution the fact that we have three very different performing GPUs will give you an idea of how things scale at various resolutions it'll also give those sensible folks pairing a budget CPU with a budget GPU a real idea of what to expect meanwhile by including the gtx 1080 you can see what kind of performance a faster GPU might enable should you have the CPU power to take advantage of it please note due to the limited pixel real estate i've been restricted to the number of CPUs that i can really compare in a single graph before it just becomes an incomprehensible mess so while I have included a good range of processes I'm sure there'll be an additional processor or two that you would like to see it included but as I said there will be a few follow-up videos so these aren't the only cps I'll be testing in this way they're just the only ones I've tested so far anyway let's check out the results and then I'll discuss a few more things at the end of the video to the benchmarks alright so first up we have battlefield 1 and as you can see there's a bit going on here the blue bars represent the Intel processors and we have the core i5 7400 and pentium g 4560 here meanwhile the red bars represent the AMD processors which includes the arisin v 1400 Rison 3 1300 x + r3 1200 as you can see 5 cpus were tested three times in battlefield one using the geforce gtx 1060 gtx 970 and GT x 1080 looking at the gtx 1060 results first we see no variance whatsoever between the cpus tested the g 4560 provided the same numbers as the i5 7400 as did all the AMD cpus moving to the more powerful gtx 1070 graphics card and things start to change a little now we know based on previous testing with high-end CPUs that the 1070 is on average 35% faster than the 1060 as it packs 50% more cos using the pentium g 45 60 we see that the minimum frame rate is improved by just 11% for what looks like a very obvious CPU bottleneck illustrating this point further is the fact that the core i5 7400 boosts the performance by 31% with the 1070 the r5 1400 also allowed very nice 28% bump in the minimum frame rate and now remember it is possible to overclock the rise in cpus but through what will no doubt be the dismay of many i'm going to save the overclocking of the rising cpus and feature them in a different video for this one i just want to establish a baseline performance let's go with that there wasn't he protecting just to get as far as we have for this video basically 30 benchmark runs per game as we're taking a three run average nine games tested in total so around 270 benchmark runs just for this video that being said the Rison 3 1200 and 1300 x give us a good idea of how well these CPUs will respond to overclocking given it a 1300 X is already 5% faster with gtx 1070 when compared to the g 4560 the r3 1200 did allow for an 8% increase in the minimum frame rate once we move to the gtx tonight it becomes quite clear that none of these cpus are capable of extracting anywhere near the maximum performance from this GPU in a game that relies heavily on cpu performance the i5 7400 and r5 1400 only saw a boost to the minimum frame rate of 4% when compared to the 1070 results interestingly the Rison 3 cpus do a little better at around a 7% increase but given the gtx 1080 is around 30% faster than the 1070 it's fair to say we're nowhere near extracting maximum performance here f1 2016 is very heavy on the cpu and we see this even when testing the gtx 1060 is the lower end or lower o'clock cpus drop off the pace ever so slightly the margin certainly aren't noteworthy but when compared to battlefield 1 there is a distinct difference here jumping to the gtx 1070 boosted the average frame rate for all 5 configurations quite substantially though it was a different case for the minimum frame rate and this is where we will focus our attention here the pentium g 45 60 saw no improvement at all while the horizon 3 1200 did see a noteworthy 21% performance boost thanks to the superior clock speeds the 1300 X also outpaced the SMT enabled R 5 1400 still it was the Intel cable a Chi 5 7400 that provided the best results out of the box with a minimum of 77 fps moving to the GTX 1080 we see little to no performance improvement with the faster graphics card using these low-end to mid-range CPUs moving a Far Cry primal which is typically a GPU bound game we find some interesting results I say typically GPU bound because we typically test with high-end CPUs the challenge the CPU faces in this game is the fact that it really only taxes a single thread anyway using the gtx 1060 performance is much of a muchness regardless of the cpu used it's a similar story with the gtx 1070 well almost for whatever reason intel's high clock kb lake cpus dominate this title and here we see the core i5 7400 pulling well ahead from the pack when looking at the minimum frame rate that said though this was the end of the road for the i-5 17400 installing the faster GTX 1080 basically produced the exact same results total war Warhammer is a very CPU demanding game and can make good use of multiple threads right away even with the gtx 1060 we can set the g 45 60 is getting a little left behind the plucky little pentium processor is still able to provide playable performance though the rise in CPUs were noticeably better despite that increasing the rendering power with the gtx 1070 did a little to improve the frame rates the i5 7400 did see a nice 15% boost though even if it isn't getting the most out of the gtx 1070 that being the case they moved to the gtx 1080 made a little to no difference and we were faced with an extreme Seaview bottleneck 4 or 5 configurations next up we have overwatch another game that can put many threads to work surprisingly all 5 CPU configurations were able to max out the gtx 1060 which obviously includes the dual-core HTN Abel G 4560 moving to the gtx 1070 changes things quite a bit and now we see the g 4560 falling well behind and it's now only able to improve over the 1060 results by a 10% margin meanwhile the Rison 3 1200 enjoyed a 27% performance increase and a 34% increase for the r3 1300 ex in fact the 1300 ex was comparable to the i5 7400 here while the r5 1400 pushed a little further ahead upgrading the GTX 1080 does little to improve performance here though we are seeing better gains here than compared to most of the games we've looked at so far the r5 1400 minimum frame rate was boosted by 12% though just 9% for the r3 1300 ex still though the g40 560 created an even more extreme bottleneck and only boosted performance by 4% moving on to a very popular game we have The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and here we see the gtx 1060 completely neutralizes the playing field all CPUs were limited to a minimum of 45 FPS as this is what the GTX 1060 dips down to in this title at 1080 P using said quality settings and no amount of CPU power can change that even with the gtx 1070 handling the rendering work the cpu results are mostly this with the exception of the G 4560 which starts to drop off the pace a bit once we install the 1080 performance does start to differ between the various CPU models the i5 7400 was king here though the r5 1400 and r3 1300 X won't fire off the pace and will no doubt still the show once overclocked due to popular demand I'm bringing back Rainbow six siege and I'm glad I have as it provides some interesting results here we see even with the gtx 1060 installed the horizon cpus are clearly faster than the Intel processors been looking at the all-important minimum frame rate moving to the gtx 1070 the Rison cpus remain strong though it has to be said the g 45 60 is hanging in there quite well also from this point forward though we are pretty much limited by the CPU moving to the GTX 1080 didn't do much for us especially when using the G 45 60 and r3 1200 moving on to World of Tanks this is a game that doesn't really hammer the CPU in the same way that total war Warhammer or battlefield 1 does for example CPU utilization is quite poor and multi-core CPUs aren't really properly utilized that said though as the title isn't really that demanding on the CPU you'll find that CPU such as the Pentium G 45 60 do quite well that said the dual core Intel CPU is clearly peaking with the gtx 1060 perhaps doing so with a minimum frame rate of well over 130 fps it's a similar story with the r3 1200 though it was a little slower at around 120 fps but again at these frame rates in this titles it's kind of a negligible difference so basically the difference in performance when these CPUs really isn't important as they all push over 120 fps for the most part I guess the point here being that for 1080p performance you need nothing more than a gtx 1060 for this title and finally we have Counter Strike global Offensive and like World of Tanks it really is all about the CPU here for those high frame rates competitive gamers crave to reduce things like input lag for maximum responsiveness that said though it still doesn't take advantage of modern multi-core CPUs so again the G 45 60 is able to keep pace with the r3 1200 something it can't do in the more modern titles the i5 7400 is again king in these situations where we're relying on a single core that said the rise in three 1,300 it's never that far behind and with a little overclocking should be able to match or possibly even beat the core i5 processor basically those csgo gamers need to worry less about their GPU in place pretty much all of their attention on the cpu alright so we've just seen how these five CPUs comparing nine different games is in the geforce gtx 960 gtx 970 and gtx 1080 the spreader games used were quite different and in my opinion cover all scenarios the results are interesting and they tell us a number of things starting with the demanding modern titles such as battlefield one f1 2016 total war Warhammer The Witcher 3 overwatch an even Far Cry primal what we found was the despite being modern and very much able to take advantage of high-end hardware they're also not pushing entry-level hardware to the point of becoming obsolete so I guess it's kind of a happy medium then even with a mid-range GPU such as the GTX 1060 we found little difference between the Pentium G 4560 and Core i5 7400 and the same was true for the horizon v 1400 which is another quad core but that particular model has support for eight threads thanks to SMT I also keep in mind the gtx 1060 it's not exactly slow either it's basically on par with the mighty gtx 980 from the previous generation so if you gave me with a graphics card equivalent to say the geforce gtx 1060 or something slower and you plan on playing newly-released titles then the rising three CPUs will really be as good as any now what we've seen here is once you upgrade your GPU in the future or games become more demanding Rison 3 will remain relevant and within reason gamers won't need to upgrade that CPU we of course saw this when moving from the gtx 1060 to the gtx 1070 whereas with the g45 60 for example we often saw little to no performance gains when going with the faster gtx 1070 whereas we did see again with Rison 3 again as i touched on earlier you can of course overclock the rise and three cpus for even greater performance but this is something i'll look at in a future video for those playing older but still very popular titles such as well tanks or counter-strike for example things do get a little more tricky while also becoming more simplified at the same time kind of odd I know the tricky bit being which CPU is the best choice for these types of games the type of game that really only utilizes a single thread the core i5 was clearly the superior choice here but as a little bit of a spoiler I can tell you that overclocking Rison 3 does allow the red team to take the lead over the i-5 7400 that said if you're after as many frames as possible in this competitive shooter then getting an unlocked Intel quad core and overclocking a snot out of it is the best way to go still if spending as little money as possible is the aim then Rison 3 is a much cheaper alternative and really a much better cpu for all occasions at least when compared to the locked eye 5 7400 then we have the more modern competitive shooters such as Rainbow six siege and of course overwatch here Aizen 3 pretty well match the i5 7400 before any overclocking even took place and when compared to the G 45 60 it was clearly the superior CPU at least when looking at the overwatch results with the gtx 1070 jumping back to the modern more well-built titles such as battlefield 1 we see that no matter which cpu you choose Rison 3 or the locked i-5 neither have enough in the tank to utilize a graphics card packing a GPU with more rendering power than say the gtx 1070 at least under these conditions as resolutions are increased further load will be placed more on the GPU and the CPU will likely become less of a concern even so though we know for a fact that no matter how many pixels your GPU can spit out it isn't going to render more than around 110 fps in battlefield 1 with a stock horizon 3 CPU likewise in a game such as csgo you aren't going to break that 300 FPS barrier without a little bit of tinkering in the BIOS still just focusing on the out-of-the-box performance scene in this video it's pretty clear that for the vast majority of PC gamers horizon is going to be an ideal solution and we'll see them well off into the future as a side note I know there will be those of you who will say I wish you'd test it with more realistic GPU such as the gtx 750ti 1050 or perhaps even the GT 1030 but the fact of the matter is I didn't need to the data would have told us nothing we don't already know and it would have shown yeah nothing different than what we saw with the GTX 1060 the frame rates would have of course been lower but all the CPUs would have produced the same lower frame rate anyway next up I'll be looking at how the horizon 3 1200 and risin 5 1400 compare and overclocked to 4 gigahertz and then after that I'll check out Rison 3 against the overclocked core i5 2500 k + FX 83-70 it's kind of an upgrade as guide those comparisons of course will follow the same format as you've seen here so the same nine games will be tested with the same three GPUs I don't know about you guys but I'm very keen to see the results until then take it easy I'm your host Steve I'll see you again soon