{"id":90153,"date":"2016-05-03T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90153"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:01:42","slug":"tested-how-do-cpu-generations-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/90153-tested-how-do-cpu-generations-compare","title":{"rendered":"How Intel CPU generations compare"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been seven generations of Intel i5 processors since the release of the Lynnfield line in 2009.<\/p>\n

While gaming performance is typically tied to the power of your graphics card, not all i5 processors perform the same in today’s latest games.<\/p>\n

HardwareUnboxed<\/a><\/strong> tested a processor from each of the seven generations using today’s most demanding games. They based their game choices on pure graphical fidelity (a game like Battlefield 4 for example) and games that would require substantive CPU calculations (like the recently-released Ashes of the Singularity).<\/p>\n

The most noticeable differences can be found in the jumps to Sandy Bridge and Skylake, but even the Lynnfield processors can put out very playable framerates when paired with a recent GPU.<\/p>\n

Here are the results of the different processors paired with a GTX 980 Ti.<\/p>\n

You can find a complete breakdown of the processors’ performance and how they compare with other graphics cards here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Battlefield 4<\/h3>\n

\"Battlefield<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Black Ops 3<\/h3>\n

\"Black<\/a><\/h3>\n
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GTA V<\/h3>\n

\"GTA<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Just Cause 3<\/h3>\n

\"Just<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Star Wars: Battlefront<\/h3>\n

\"Star<\/a><\/h3>\n
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More gaming news<\/h3>\n

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There have been seven generations of Intel i5 processors since the release of the Lynnfield line in 2009 – we see how they stack up today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":81788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[12465,15857,10568],"class_list":["post-90153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","tag-cpu","tag-i5","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91267,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90153\/revisions\/91267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}