Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “StarCraft II — Testing on an i5-6500 + RX 6600 8GB — 1080p Benchmark — Will It Play?”.
Hello and welcome to Tech deals. Starcraft 2 was released in 2010. for those of you keeping track that was 13 years ago. Clearly it should run even on older machines.
This is an i5 6500 featuring an updated RX 6600 graphics card, not that that remotely matters here. This is all a test of the CPU. We have 16 gigabytes of DDR3 1600 RAM and we are currently at about 91 frames per second average with a one percent low of 21.. I’M actually a little surprised at how poor the one percent low is and spoiler alert that 91 frame per second will not hold throughout the game. Now, to give you the tldr version, the average of this entire battle, which lasted a very long time, was 74 frames per second with a one percent low of 31..
However, that is an average across the entire benchmark Mark, which consists of a lot of things that didn’t actually have stuff going on. I’M going to show you some of the heavier combat and you’ll see the frame rate dips down by quite a bit. Now this game does not use four cores: it uses two cores or more appropriately two threads, and you can see that because the CPU never really goes much Beyond 50 percent. It does occasionally go above 50 because MSI afterburner is running the Rivia tuner statistics is running and just because it’s impossible to get Windows to be completely silent.
In the background, this is a clean test bench there’s nothing else running it’s actually a fresh install of Windows. 10 on this computer, everything is configured very nicely and updated. There’S not much running in the test trade, but it’s not zero.
It’S impossible to make these machines zero and so there’s a little bit going above 50 percent. The clock speed is pretty nice, we’re at 3.3 gigahertz. It occasionally goes up to 3.4 or even 3.5, as you saw just there. The all-core turbo of the I5 6500 is lovely. It is 600 megahertz faster than the 2.7 gigahertz all-core turbo of the I5 6400.
It was only about a 20 difference back in 2015 to go from an i5 6400 to an i5 6500, but I suspect the vast majority of people ended up with the 6400, because typically the lowest end I5 is what sells whatever the non-x chip. They have. An i560 400 6500 and 6600, but the 6400s outnumb Outnumber the 6500 and 6600 by quite a wide margin. Let me know in the comment section below, if you actually owned an i5 6500 because 600mhz, it’s for twenty dollars in 2015 was a pretty sweet deal.
Some of you may be asking why on Earth did you record a Starcraft 2 Benchmark on a 2015 CPU when the game came out in 2010, a CPU released five years after the game clearly can run it? Well, yes, clearly it can. You can see the performance on the screen. This is 1080p Max detail, we’re not running it low we’re not running at 720p. However, I do believe this is still a very popular game and incomplete fairness. This is a campaign story Mission. It is not the most demanding content you can play a multiplayer battle with multiple people playing on very busy Maps can be more demanding than this. However, that is very difficult to Benchmark and recreate and honestly, I’m not skilled enough to play against really good elite players. In multiplayer, so I’m showing you this, because it’s pretty easy to do.
Those of you who are familiar with the game hopefully can take these results and translate them to your own experiences and go okay. Well, if this computer is getting 82 or 81 frames per second in this scenario, then on my machine in multiplayer, I should get X. This is kind of where you have to interpolate and take your experience and translate it to your computer.
Now, for this sequence, I don’t want you to look at the rolling average frame rate, which is currently 79 frames per. Second, I want you to watch the real time frame rate on the left. We are now down in the 40s. Okay, now we’re back to the 50s, but we dip down into the mid 40s and it will dip even lower later in this battle that one percent low is not doing too bad, but look at the frame time graph. It is absolutely all over the place.
A faster CPU would help an i7 7700k dropped into this motherboard. No overclocking will run up 4.2 gigahertz on all the cores and threads actually it’ll run a little faster than that. Given this only uses two cores, it’ll, probably turbo to 4.3 or 4.4 gigahertz, given the nature of how Intel turbo boost works, unless, of course, you have a z board and you can manually overclock, in which case five gigahertz would be fine with reasonable cooling, especially with This low of a CPU usage – now you wouldn’t be looking at 50 usage on the 7700k or a 6700k, because those are four core eight thread chips, so you have to divide by eight threads instead of four, so you’d actually be looking at 25 usage for the Game and then a couple of percent for Ms After Burner and just the things in the task tray, I’m running this to the blizzard.net, the Battle.net client and that uses something in their server communication and the network is being activated and so there’s there is a few Other things going on, although only as much as necessary, to play the game and run the Benchmark. Those of you who have watched a bunch of these I5 6500 tests may very well be asking good. Lord man.
Did you test every single game that exists on this? No, of course not, although we might have gotten carried away and done more than we needed to I’m really. Looking in the comment section to see what other Hardware you want to see these older games tested on or if you don’t like these videos, do you want to see comparisons? Do you want to see CPU versus CPU GPU versus GPU, the more complicated the test? The more detailed the test, of course, the longer it takes. It is fairly quick and easy to make these single game single Hardware configuration benchmarks and thus, in an afternoon I can test a bunch of games and then over the following week or two.
I can sit down and record these voiceovers and put it together into a video. So you get a lot of content that way, but it doesn’t necessarily show you how well an i5 2500 versus an i5 6500 versus an i5 10 500, not that the 10 500 should have ever be purchased. In that case, it’d be the 10 400 or the 10600k, but whatever you get the point. How well does the generational differences play the game, but the minute you get into multiple CPUs, especially with live gameplay you’d, run into the issue of not being an exact replica. It’S hard to put those side by side and get it exactly. You can get in the ballpark there’s enough consistency. That gives you an idea if I show you the footage side by side. So let me know in the comment section below: do you want more of these, but on different hardware and if so, what Hardware, new or older ER comparisons important to you? I am looking for your feedback and I would greatly appreciate it and for those of you who have watched to this point in the video.
Thank you. Thank you very very much for watching this, and hopefully you see the other videos I’ve done recently on the i7 7700k and the I5 6500, and I look forward to seeing you in the next article foreign .