Application Performance

The Microsoft Excel 2013 workload was completed by the Core i7-4770K in just 3.86 seconds, making it just 6% faster than the i7-3770K and 9% slower than the i7-3960X. When compared to the AMD FX-8350 the i7-4770K was 30% faster.

The WinRAR in-built benchmark saw the Core i7-4770K provide a throughput of 9546KB/s when using multiple threads and 1680KB/s when using just a single thread. These are similar figures to that of the i7-3770K as it was a little under 2% faster. Still when compared to the AMD FX-8350 the i7-4770K was 26% faster.

The Core i7-4770K blitzed our Photoshop CS6 test completing the task in just 19.1 seconds, making it 11% faster than the i7-3770K and 27% faster than the AMD FX-8350. Moreover it was just 5% slower than the Core i7-3960X.