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if you're a pretty ballin gamer on a budget and looking for a pretty sweet intel core i5 CPU without breaking the bank you've probably considered either the i5 4460 or the i-5 6400 they're both very very similar spec wise and price wise so which ones better should you go with the older Haswell platform or the newer skylake platform let's find out in this video so the Intel Core i5 4460 comes packed with 4 physical cores of course and a frequency of 3.2 gigahertz which is turbo boost able up to 3.4 gigahertz turbo boost able is that does that actually like is that actually thing it also comes with six megabytes of l3 cache but ok so what about this guy the i5 6400 well apart from being slightly newer and having slightly more efficient 14 nanometer architecture firstly as well 22 nanometer architecture this guy right here packs 4 physical cores but at a stock frequency of only 2.7 gigahertz which is however turbo boost able up to 3.2 gigahertz so let's see which one's the all-around better CPU a newer high-five with a slightly lower frequency or the older i-5 with the slightly higher frequency we wanted to get the specs for both of these platforms as similar as possible and I think we did a good job on the skylight platform we of course have the Intel Core i5 6400 clocked at 2.7 gigahertz and azrog z170 pro 4 ATX motherboard 8 gigabytes of PNY anarchie ddr4 down clock to 2133 megahertz and an a data 120 gigabyte solid state drive on the has both side of things we have of course the Intel Core i5 4460 clocked at 3.2 gigahertz and azrog z97 extreme for LGA 1150 motherboard eight gigabytes of kingston hyperx ddr3 clocked at 1866 megahertz and the same a data 120 gigabyte solid state drive both rigs were also equipped with the same AV J 500 watt plus power supply and a single Sapphire Radeon r9 380 4 gigabyte graphics card so you can see that we made things very very similar we chose a z97 motherboard on the Haswell side and is the 170 motherboard on the skylake side now we didn't get the memory matchup just right but I would like to point out that 20 133 megahertz is like the base that's as low as you can go for ddr4 without underclocking for whatever reason and 1866 megahertz on ddr3 side of things is fairly consistent 1600 megahertz is the most common but 1866 is actually a pretty good little boost from that stock frequency so I think we've gotten the 2 round kits as close to each other as possible without severely overclocking the ddr3 and causing operating system stability issues so 1866 verse 21 33 that sounds good enough to me the first CPU independent test on our list is Cinebench r15 and the scores were very similar between the two the i5 4460 scored 483 while the i5 6400 scored 505 running the free 32-bit Geekbench 3 tests we achieve a 44 60 single core score of 32 52 while the 6400 achieved 3656 onto the multi-core side of things the 4460 scored 10,000 158 while the 6,400 scored 11 thousand and seven next we took a one-minute video file and rendered it through a W Premiere Pro using the h.264 YouTube 1080p preset in this case obviously the lowest time wins the i5 6400 was able to shave off an additional 5 seconds that the 4460 wasn't I would like to throw my personal two cents into the mix on this one however and that despite its setbacks the 4460 did a darn good job now under the thing that I know you definitely care about and that's gaming performance so should you expect to see any increase in frame rates with the newer i-5 6400 well let's find out first up is dying light a pretty awesome zombie game it's kind of like GTA 5 but throw zombies in there a pretty cool slightly cheesy storyline and there you have it that's dying light so things turned out a little strange in this particular benchmark the i5 4460 managed to achieve an average frame rate of 76 while the i5 6400 only managed to achieve an average frame rate of 55 so something's going on there switching gaming genres altogether if you're a fan of car racing and things of that sort then the dirt rally benchmark might be of interest to you both processors perform very well in this test however the i5 6400 does edge out a lead in terms of max frames per second as well as the average just barely the minimums however did dip slightly lower for the 6400 and this could just be because the 6400 is a turbo boost as high as the 44 60 and some of those pretty intense moments you know like when you hit a tree or drive completely off the road like I managed to do quite a number of times in that benchmark we like to save the best for last here in the studio and that's why grand theft auto 5 is the last gaming benchmark on our list I say this all the time and I'm sorry if this is getting annoying but GT 5 is very very CPU intensive so if you're looking to stress your CPU and see just how well it performs and communicates with your graphics card GTA 5 is the benchmark that you should consider so how well did both processors do well the i-5 6400 definitely definitely is the better processor in this case the 14 nanometer architecture of the skylake processor definitely helps out in this regard but I think what's more important behind the scenes is the ddr4 faster memory for games like GTA 5 definitely aid in frame per second boost and even decline so if you have really low frequency ddr4 ddr3 you're going to see severe frames per second cuts in games like this this not only explains the 20% increase in average FPS between the 44 60 and the 6400 but also explains the higher max frames per second that you would see in a newer platform which is why the 6400 124 frames per second at its peak while the 4460 was only able to reach 94 frames per second keep in mind that all these games are being tested at just 1080p I have the presets you know in the descriptions of the graphs but we're not testing anything in 1440p or 4k or even something like 720p or anything crazy like that just a standard 1080p if you are curious however about how well the i5 4460 performs when combined with an r9 380 4 gigabyte graphics card in 1440p gaming you can click the link here and check out the video that I posted well a day before this video is posting date I think you'll enjoy that video it is quite the 1440p performer if I do say so myself but see for yourself so this is how I want to conclude the video I know that I've said a few times that I don't like using PC part picker to know put together any of my builds or link them in the descriptions because prices change all the time so I'll put together a PC part picard pc and it'll be $600 at the time of its creation and then like a week later it's either gonna go up in price or down in price by 20 or $40 something crazy you know I'll strike a deal and then the deal is gone and then that whole PC part picker list is is ruined for the most part so that's kind of why I don't like using PC port picker but in this case I did because I wanted to show you that you could actually put together both of these platforms for almost exactly the same price about 630 dollars for both so if you're considering purchasing either an i5 4460 or an i-5 6400 in at least the United States where the US dollar reigns supreme I would recommend going with the i-5 6400 get the newer platform take advantage of the skylake architecture and ddr4 you will see for the most part frame per second increases compared to those of the Haswell equivalents and you're really not gonna pay much more for the build I mean if you want to just go bare-bones which I really don't recommend but you know you're on a budget and you just want a game and that's really it you can pick up a skylake PC for about the same price as a has well equivalent at this point in the United States maybe not somewhere like Australia see I mentioned Australia hello my Aussies thanks for checking out the video I'm sorry that PC parts are so expensive on your side of the planet that is unfortunate I wish I could do something about that then maybe someday but that goes without saying if Haswell is significantly cheaper where you live the performance gains for Sky League aren't really going to be justified in that case just purchase a house well i-5 like this rig behind me you're going to play games just fine but if you can put together a skylight build for the same price as a has well equivalent purchase the skylight rig it's just just makes more sense in most games except for dying light which is still still a little confusing but we'll address that maybe in a future video like I said leave a comment in the description if you think you know why that happened I still can't explain it I reran that benchmark three times and I just took the third benchmark because they were all pretty much the same the i5 4460 took the cake and all three instances by about the same margin so it is a little strange but that's why we call this sign studio this is about trial and error it's about experimenting and trying to explain the results that you get and try to make sense of it all so if you think that you know why this things happened leave comments below we appreciate it I would sure like to know why I think I have an idea but I don't want to say anything that's incorrect and that people bite my head off in the comments below I'll spare that speaking of comments be sure to leave one suggesting future videos things like that let me know if you think we did a good job be sure to leave a like if you liked the video dislike if you disliked the video and subscribe for more I like building computers and stuff this is science studio thanks for learning with us you