Conclusion

In general it is particularly noticeable that on average there is almost no difference between the performance of these two CPUs. If you should be thinking about upgrading from a Core i7-2600K to a Core i7-3770K, we can tell you that the CPU really wont be the bottleneck in your system when it comes to gaming performance. If your computer should not be able to render games at sufficiently high framerates, then it's very likely that the GPU in your system is the bottleneck.

Looking at the numbers and figures we see that the in Far Cry 2 we measured the biggest difference between the two CPUs. In this case the performance gap is a quite astonishing 16.39 percent. The next benchmark which clearly shows different results is World in Conflict with an almost 14 percent performance increase. Furthermore there is Futuremarks 3D Mark Vantage which shows a CPU score that is a little bit more than nine percent higher with Ivy Bridge. This score does say nothing about the actual frames per second which you get in a game. The difference between Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge an be found with the clock speed that has been increased by 100 MHz and the architectural improvement which Ivy Bridge offers over Sandy Bridge. 

As a closing remark we have to mention that there is no need to upgrade a Core i7-2600K/2700K to a Core i7-3770K when it comes to gaming performance. The overall advantage you get is in the single digit percentage. Therefore an upgrade only makes sense if you want to squeeze even the last, tiny little bit of performance out of your setup.

Page 1 - Introduction / Specs	Page 5 - Crysis / Resident Evil 5
Page 2 - Test setup	Page 6 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 3 - 3DMark 11 / 3DMark Vantage	Page 7 - Street Fighter 4 / World in Conflict
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant	Page 8 - Conclusion

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