(Benches) i7/5500XT, i9/5700XT, Hackintosh i7 Skylake/RX5700XT

[zerozoneice]

The numbers speak for themselves.
I took the Heaven benches from Max's and Tally Ho's videos and ran same settings on my hackintosh with older i7 6700 skylake & Sapphire 5700XT Pulse running Catalina 10.15.6

Can't speak of CPU temperature & noise since i run watercooling

HEAVEN 4.0
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i7-10700K & Radeon 5500XT: FPS 64.2, Score 1618, MinFPS 12.7, MaxFPS 141.7
i9-10910 & Radeon 5700XT: FPS 98.3, Score 2475, MinFPS 59.7, MaxFPS 206.4
i7-6700 & Sapphire Pulse RX 5700XT: FPS 111, Score 2797, MinFPS 10.9, MaxFPS 253.7

CINEBENCH R20
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i7-10700K & Radeon 5500XT: 4846
i9-10910 & Radeon 5700XT: 5600
i7-6700 & Sapphire Pulse RX 5700XT: 1810

 

[RyanXM]

Not bad when you consider the TGP of the Radeon Pro 5700 XT is 95w LESS than the 5700 XT in the Hackintosh.

 

[zerozoneice]

yes indeed.
does the i7 have the same TDP as the i9 in the top iMac?
i7 with the 5700XT seems to be the sweetspot in performance/noise/thermal hell for the new iMacs.

 

[miretogo]

Interesting results! Thank you for posting these.

 

[RyanXM]

yes indeed.
does the i7 have the same TDP as the i9 in the top iMac?
i7 with the 5700XT seems to be the sweetspot in performance/noise/thermal hell for the new iMacs.

Not sure on that. It has been said that the i9 is a 95w variant, while the i7 is still at 125w...

 

[zerozoneice]

i'd even take the i5 from the mid-tier model with the 5700xt but they don't offer them in this config....
this top model XT seems to be around&about a GTX1070 and about 30% below the desktop X5700 XT.

 

[edib]

i'd even take the i5 from the mid-tier model with the 5700xt but they don't offer them in this config....
this top model XT seems to be around&about a GTX1070 and about 30% below the desktop X5700 XT.

More like GTX2070 as reported here:

iMac 2020 Reviews And Benchmarks - The Last Intel iMac

The 5700XT with 16GB in this iMac is killer, it has surpassed my expectations and actually runs Red Dead Redemption 2 in 4K on high with no issues, pure beauty, new details never before seen because the game was designed for 4K. I don't have a frame monitor on but it's butter and my house mate...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[edib]

Not sure on that. It has been said that the i9 is a 95w variant, while the i7 is still at 125w...

It looks like both are 125W

i7 (125w TDP) vs i9 (95w TDP) in iMacs 2020 - fan noise at idle

Both i7 (10700K - assuming that is the correct one) and i9 (10910) have a 125W TDP and 95W TDP-down. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/199335/intel-core-i7-10700k-processor-16m-cache-up-to-5-10-ghz.html?wapkw=10700k...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[rkuo]

It boggles my mind that a 4 year old Skylake processor is still within spitting distance of the 2020 iMac. I'm so used to upgrading about every 3-4 years that I'm really struggling when I look at benchmarks and find an old Skylake Hackintosh is within 10% of the top end model.

 

[Whiteman007]

In cinebench R20 I was able to get a 5704 score on the i9 5700XT 2020 IMac

to get this I put fans at max then ran the test. When I ran normally I would getin the 5660 range

 

[JacobHarvey]

More like GTX2070 as reported here:

iMac 2020 Reviews And Benchmarks - The Last Intel iMac

The 5700XT with 16GB in this iMac is killer, it has surpassed my expectations and actually runs Red Dead Redemption 2 in 4K on high with no issues, pure beauty, new details never before seen because the game was designed for 4K. I don't have a frame monitor on but it's butter and my house mate...

forums.macrumors.com

No doubt the 5700 XT is finally an excellent GPU option that performs great! But I've got some serious questions about that report of the power limited 5700 XT of the iMac running RDR2 at 4K High smoothly when even the PC version of the 5700XT averages 46fps, and the mighty RTX 2080 Ti is unable to crack 60fps at 4K High see the 4K chart in the following review article: https://www.techspot.com/review/1939-red-dead-redemption-2-benchmarks/

VRAM ain't the limiting factor as RDR2 uses under 6GB of VRAM at 4K high see: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Red-Dead-Redemption-2-Notebook-and-PC-Benchmarks.446993.0.html

Nevertheless I do agree that the iMac 5700 XT is likely to perform similarly to an RTX 2070 (non-super) or RTX 2060 Super. Need some proper gaming benchmarks across an entire suite of games like review sites do to properly compare though

 

[edib]

No doubt the 5700 XT is finally an excellent GPU option that performs great! But I've got some serious questions about that report of the power limited 5700 XT of the iMac running RDR2 at 4K High smoothly when even the PC version of the 5700XT averages 46fps, and the mighty RTX 2080 Ti is unable to crack 60fps at 4K High see the 4K chart in the following review article: https://www.techspot.com/review/1939-red-dead-redemption-2-benchmarks/

VRAM ain't the limiting factor as RDR2 uses under 6GB of VRAM at 4K high see: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Red-Dead-Redemption-2-Notebook-and-PC-Benchmarks.446993.0.html

Nevertheless I do agree that the iMac 5700 XT is likely to perform similarly to an RTX 2070 (non-super) or RTX 2060 Super. Need some proper gaming benchmarks across an entire suite of games like review sites do to properly compare though

I agree , 4K on high settings with an average of 59fps sounds rather optimistic.

Here (3m:55s) are some results with other games at 1440p:

 

[zerozoneice]

1440p is the resolution to run games on iMac 27", not 4K or native 5K.

It boggles my mind that a 4 year old Skylake processor is still within spitting distance of the 2020 iMac. I'm so used to upgrading about every 3-4 years that I'm really struggling when I look at benchmarks and find an old Skylake Hackintosh is within 10% of the top end model.

tell me about it i'm struggling to invent some reasons to sell this AIO (Y910-27ISH) but i can't find any...yet...
AIO format, 27" 1440p 144Hz screen, RX5700XT, 2TB SSDs, runs Catalina pretty good...

Dumb question: if i run some benches in Windows (which is native for my setup), does it make a fair/equal setup to running the same benches on an iMac in Bootcamp Windows?