★4770k ES benchmarked versus 3770k ★

The Haswell 4770K and Z87 motherboards will finally be hitting the shops in early June and thereby hopefully revitalize the DIY market, which hasn't really seen much excitement over the past months.
So we teamed up with our friends over at Coolaler.com, prime OC site in Taiwan with excellent connections into the industry. And they managed to get their hands onto some early samples, so we can present you the test results you need to know whether you want to start saving your bucks to buckle up a power-rig this summmer.

We'll take a look at how the new generation HASWELL 4770K and Z77 mobos fair in comparison to the earlier Z87 with Ivybridge 3770K.
As the motherboard is still under NDA (non-disclosure agreement) restrictions, at this point in time we will only be able to introduce the performance in words, as for screenshots and test video material, we shall be adding those later in June as well.


Frankly speaking, we were truly surprised by the memory performance leap the Haswell 4770K/Z87 platform has to offer, and you know we are not impressed so easily.
Originally the Ivy Bridge 3770K/Z77 combo only allowed for memory to go up to DDR3 2800. Now with the Haswell 4770K on the Z87 you can use 4 modules of 8GB each, giving you a total of 32 GB, and even sweeter, it's DDR3 3000.

So we conducted a strenuous burn-in and overclocking MemTest in order to see how the 4770K compares to the 3777K which detailed results you can find below.


Memory overclocking setup (Overclockability is restricted by CPU quality and respective motherboard brand)

CPU:3770K @ DRAM MODULE:G.SKILL
4 x 8GB = 32GB Module with DDR3 2800 MEMTEST burn-in
4 x 4GB = 16GB Module with DDR3 2800 MEMTEST burn-in

CPU:4770K @ DRAM MODULE:G.SKILL
4 x 8GB = 32GB Module reaching up to DDR3 3000C12 MEMTEST burn-in
2 x 8GB = 16GB Module reaching up to DDR3 3000C12 MEMTEST burn-in
4 x 4GB = 16GB Module reaching up to DDR3 3000C12 MEMTEST burn-in, with the possibility to achieve DDR3 3000C11 clock-speed.

Now let's have a look at the CPU overclocking performance. With the Ivy Bridge 3770K/Z77 combo, users always encountered the old annoying excessive heat problem. With the Haswell 4770K this issue isn't entirely of the table, yet with air-cooling it still remains in the 4.8GHz~5GHz range though.
For the CPU overclocking performance comparison between the 4770K and 3770K see below results (Overclockability is restricted by CPU quality and respective motherboard brand)

Overclocking with air-cooling

With air-cooling the 3770K can burn-in up to 4.8GHz~5GHz, but heat dissipation is very high.
With air-cooling the 4770K can burn-in up to 4.8GHz~5GHz, here the heat dissipation is also rather high.
At this point in time of our preview we won't get into overclocking with extreme cooling measures, but rather leave this part to you guys to share with us at a later point in time;-)

We continue comparing both CPU generations' performance, 4770K vs. 3770K, at their default clock settings in single-task and multi-task benchmarks.
As the benchmarks don't show the motherboard information, at this point we can show you the actual result screenshots here. So let's check it out below.

Cpu mark 99





SuperPI 1M





SuperPI 32M





Cinebench R11.5






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