Conclusion

Having a closer look at the results we gathered while testing eight different games and two different benchmarks with two different presets, we see that the Intel Core i7-4930K, with our "low-preset" is on average 9 percent faster than the Core i7-3930K. Switching to our "high-preset" makes the Intel Core i7-4930K become 12 percent quicker than the Core i7-3930K. Overclocking the Intel Core i7-4930K to 4.5 GHz makes the performance with our "low-preset" go up by 23 percent and when it comes to the high-preset the increase in performance is 22 percent. Regarding the Core i7-3930K the situation is a little bit different: 13 percent gain with "low-preset" and 14 percent with "high-preset". Other than that a quick look at power consumption is also interesting. In this case we see that overclocking the Core i7-4930K to 4.5 GHz makes power consumption of our system go up by 13 percent. With the Core i7-3930K we see there is an additional 17 percent needed.

In the past we've been testing the same system equipped with one as well as two high-end single GPU graphics cards. Especially with one GPU and in case of our high-preset the graphics card is then going to be the limiting factor, meaning changing the CPU or even overclocking processors doesn't make for a decent performance difference. As soon as we're adding a second or even a third high-end graphics card, the bottleneck regarding graphics cards is open and overclocking CPU architecture as well as CPU clocks will make a difference even with the high preset.

Should you be thinking about buying a Core i7-4930K processor for your gaming PC, in which you have three high-end graphics cards running in SLI, then the performance gain, when upgrading from a Core i7-3930K to a Core i7-4930K is going to be about 9 percent on average. If you had the money to buy three high-end graphics cards in the first place then spending 484 Euro on a CPU shouldn't really be a thing you're worring about. Upgrading from a Core i7-3930K and getting up to 9 percent higher frame rates could be somthing worth doing if you really don't have to care about the money you're spending and if you feel the urge to always be up-to-date! On the other hand, thinking about buying a new high-end CPU, you should consider that it's only going to take another few months and Intel will release the next generation, which is actually something that always worth waiting for.

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Page 2 - Test Setup	Page 10 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike	Page 11 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0	Page 12 - Metro: Last Light
Page 5 - BattleField 4	Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 6 - BattleField 3	Page 14 - Performance Index
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite	Page 15 - Conclusion
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