Geekbench and Gaming Performance

The Geekbench iv compute exam also shows similar performance with the updates installed.

Geekbench also has a slue of CPU benchmarks and each category gets its ain score. Every bit you lot can see the crypto and memory scores are all much the aforementioned. We meet a 3% reduction for the integer and floating point scores with just a two% reduction for the multi-core score. Okay well the applications and synthetics didn't give usa much, let'south run into if the games accept any scary numbers for us.

And then hither nosotros are, our beginning game benchmark result and well things don't wait that dramatic. We do see about a 4% reduction in performance and the Core i3-8100 was consistently slower in this examination by 3-4%. As well for those wondering the GTX 1080 Ti, an insanely overpowered GPU for a Core i3 CPU, it'southward used to attempt and remove the GPU equally a potential clogging and this gives us a better idea of the impact the CPU has on operation when gaming.

For a slightly more realistic examination nosotros've boosted the quality preset from medium to ultra and once more we run into a 4% reduction in performance with the Windows and BIOS updates installed.

Moving on we have Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and again we meet a 3 - four% reduction in performance with the updates installed. Not a massive decline but a reduction in frame rate nonetheless and once more the updated configuration did consistently come in slower.

Even with the crazy preset enabled we still see the aforementioned 3 - 4% drop in frame rate.

Assassinator's Creed: Origins isn't GPU bound here, the 1% low results with the 8700K for case reach around 90 fps. So while these results look GPU limited, I tin assure yous they aren't. So that beingness the case the BIOS update does deliver similar performance to that of the pre-updated configuration, certain inside the margin of error.

Even with the Ultra High quality settings enabled we're however non GPU jump, yet despite that all three configurations evangelize the exact same results.

I had idea we might see some larger margins in Rainbow 6 Siege merely that wasn't the instance, in fact hither nosotros see almost no difference at all with the medium quality preset.

Shifting to the ulta quality settings doesn't change anything and again we meet that the BIOS update has no negative impact on performance for this title.

The functioning in F1 2022 also goes largely unchanged thought this time nosotros do see a dip in the i% low results, that said it's nothing more than than a 3% reduction.

The same 3% drop for the 1% minimum can be seen with the Ultra High quality settings though again the average frame rates are all much the same.

The final game I've tested the Core i3-8100 with is Total War Warhammer Two and here we run into a four% drop in frame rate for the 1% low result while the average remains much the same.

Then with the ultra quality settings we see almost no modify in performance as all three configurations provide similar results.

What nigh the Core i7-8700K, how does it get on with the BIOS update. Well all the awarding and productivity tests were much the same, so no real performance drop off there. Here nosotros come across the Battlefield 1 operation using the medium quality preset allows for a similar ane% low issue while the boilerplate dips by a 3% margin.

With the ultra quality performance nosotros meet virtually the same performance, the Windows update actually boosted the average frame charge per unit by 2% which is still within the margin of error so I wouldn't read into that one too heavily.

Using the high quality preset we come across virtually no change with Ashes of the Singularity. This is likewise true with the crazy quality preset enabled.

Margins were also slim for Assassin's Creed: Origins, here the BIOS update reduced the 1% depression figure past 2% while the average remained the same. Then with the Ultra High quality preset enabled we see no departure in performance at all.