Intel's 12th Gen E-Core Gaming Is Surprising!

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One more than we want, luckily, the bauer did actually beat me to this video and considering that he is a very smart legend person, uh, he figured it out really easily so thank you very much, deb, for showing me the light of process lasso which is a pretty cool bit of software. If you want to see somebody that actually knows what they're talking about on this topic, i definitely go check out his video. I'll link it in the description below.

Now basically how process lasso works is you can dictate which threads a specific process uh gets access to and then you can just switch off all of the p cores and tell process lasso to only allow e cores to run. The video game and it works. It works very well. So with that, i switched off all the p chords so that we can see what happens with battlefield v using four e cores. Whoa would you look at that! It's pretty impressive right? They're not supposed to be doing what we're doing with them here and it's entirely usable.

Okay, i don't think i don't think the rtx 3080 ti would say that this is a usable experience going on here because it is not doing a whole lot. But okay, look at that! You can play some battlefield v using e cores. That's that's exciting now. While the multiplayer gaming experience was surprisingly impressive, uh, the moment that i loaded up my single player benchmark run things didn't go as well. The game would freeze up for a solid couple seconds every now and then which was not great for the one percent lows. Apparently battlefield v single player does not like e-cors very much.

Now moving over to gta 5 this is where it got quite embarrassing for the chad corners to be honest because the average framerate may be much lower with the e chords but the one percent low is significantly higher and it means that subjectively the game actually felt more just stable and less stuttery with just the e cores running which is pretty wild. Although i will say that um, i could only run the benchmark once that was all i could do after i ran that benchmark once, i couldn't load into the game or anything, it would just crash in the loading screen every time so yeah gta 5 also didn't really seem to like the e cores very much aside from that one time the game ran pretty well on it but in terms of cs go and do maternal the average frame rate was quite a lot lower than the p cores but it was a very just surprisingly good showing.

Anyway, now i think we need to put this e core performance into perspective and i think the best way to do that is to compare these four e cores to an old i5 that also only had four cores in them so i'm going to be comparing it to the i5 4690k which i had in the craigslist pc in my previous video. It seems surprisingly close um, that that rtx 3080 ti is so confused it's basically never been run in a system that makes sense and then today it's like the first system that makes sense and now i've immediately taken that away from it but anyway what we saw with the e-core setup was that in multiplayer it was actually okay but when we did the actual benchmarks, that's when well that's when it kind of wet the bed so yeah let's see what happens with the the full-fledged i5.

Wow! Okay those e cores are really impressive. Bear in mind you know in this comparison the the old i5 was using 16 gigs of ddr3 1600 megahertz as opposed to 64 gigs of ddr5 running at 5200 megahertz the extra capacity didn't really help because none of the games used more than like 12 gigs but the extra memory bandwidth definitely would have helped anyway even taking that into account, i think that the e cores are surprisingly impressive. Yeah, if you wanted to, you could switch your p cores off and have a reasonable gaming experience maybe even a more stable gaming experience in some situations which is pretty weird.

Yeah, 12600k did seem to have some frame pacing issues in my tests uh but anyway with that thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one, and until the next video bye

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enoh yes now that everybody's lost interest in this new platform launch now is my time to shine and what better way to use a new product that people have already stopped caring about then use it in the least practical way possible ecore gaming hell yeah today's video is sponsored by leno lenode is a linux based web hosting service which according to g2 is the easiest infrastructure as service provider to use the node offers a wide variety of products including web hosting game server hosting they can handle any computational load you throw at them lenode also offers kubernetes solutions using k8 with horizontal cluster auto scaling that sounds very fancy in other news lenode also recently upgraded their block storage volumes with nvme drives which means you can get a huge speed upgrade at no extra cost if the node sounds good to you use the link in my description below to sign up for a 60-day hundred dollar free credit now for those of you that are a bit unclear as to what the e cores are that we're going to be gaming with today here is a very helpful diagram of the die of the cpu in the intel press packaging circa corsair so thank you corsair for sending over these cpus now basically this cpu has two types of cores it's got these huge chad gaming cores over here which are the performance scores you can see they're big chunky monster beasts each one of these is nice and fast it's a modern powerful cpu core and when you move down to over here you can see we've got these little baby cores four of them take up about as much space as one chad core these are the ones that kick in when you just need a lot of cores with a productivity use case or whatever and this is what we're going to game with today so we're going to switch off all the chad cores and we're just going to be using a little bit of course i was lucky enough to get sent two of these cpus so we have an i-912 900k which is like the big boy cpu in the lineup and then we also have an i-512 600k and i actually think i'm going to be using that cpu for this video because this has four efficiency cores and i think it'll be really interesting to see how this new i5s efficiency chorus section compares to an old i5 that just had four cores i think that'll be a really interesting comparison so yeah i'm going to use this one today now in terms of the motherboard we're going to use this rog strix z690 board which costs 400 i thought that the strix boards were supposed to be like fully featured value-ish gaming motherboards 400 is a lot for one of these although this very expensive motherboard was very kindly sent out by micro center micro center the place where nerds dreams come true the right choice oh wow that is a really awesome looking motherboard actually it reminds me more of like a like a formula board than a strix board so it may be very expensive but it is hella featured you've even got like a little look at that it's got like a little little strap on it for some what is this why and then the final bit of new hardware that i just want to go at is this kit of ram sent over by corsair thank you very much it's 64 gigs of ddr5 and it's dom platz which you know that's like the best ram so this is this is awesome i can't wait to get this up and running this is like if a b2 stealth bomber was a ram kit oh now this is actually a really cool feature it's a button up here that releases the pcie slot like clip because bigger graphics cards often make it really difficult to get to that and now you've just got a button up here you can press that's awesome wouldn't pay 400 dollars for that button but still it is it's cool that it's there okay so this is a little bit embarrassing but i don't actually have a cooler that can mount to this cpu socket yet um so i'm gonna have to get a little bit creative about how i mounted this deep cool cooler to the to the 12600k luckily asus very conveniently provides a little baggie of zip ties with this z690 strixboard i'm assuming for this exact use case wait actually it seems like this cooler is big and heavy enough for it to create decent thermal contact just with gravity so i'm gonna try it out like this before i actually zip tie it down uh because i think this should be okay and the zip tie situation down there's a little bit sketchy so i'm gonna drop in a fan there and then see maybe maybe it's okay without the zip ties now for tests like this you always want a nice baseline so here we have the cpu just stock running the way that intel intended i don't think i've ever seen sustained frame rates this high at 1080p ultra settings with battlefield 5 even with the 3080ti like we're running here although it is a little bit stuttery but that could be due to the fact that we're using directx 12. on a side note those cpu temperatures are amazing and it's just proof again that mounting hardware is for losers anyway let's have a look at a couple more games to see how this platform performs oh damn it there's always seven more than you expect so now that we have a baseline we need to figure out how to switch off those pesky chad cores to get to the real gaming performance hidden in these 12th gen i5s now i did go into the bios of our super fancy strix board and while you do have the option to switch off some of the p cores you can't switch off all of them the minimum you can have running at a time is one uh which is one more than we want luckily der bauer did actually beat me to this video and considering that he is a very smart legend person uh he figured it out really easily so thank you very much deb for showing me the light of process lasso which is a pretty cool bit of software if you want to see somebody that actually knows what they're talking about on this topic i definitely go check out his video i'll link it in the description below now basically how process lasso works is you can dictate which threads a specific process uh gets access to and then you can just switch off all of the p cores and tell process lasso to only allow e cores to run the video game and it works it works very well so with that i switched off all the p chords so that we can see what happens with battlefield v using four e cores whoa would you look at that it's pretty impressive right they're not supposed to be doing what we're doing with them here and it's entirely usable okay i i don't think i don't think the rtx 3080 ti would say that this is a usable experience going on here because it is not doing a whole lot but okay look at that you can play some battlefield 5 using e cores that's that's exciting now while the multiplayer gaming experience was surprisingly impressive uh the moment that i loaded up my single player benchmark run things didn't go as well the game would freeze up for a solid couple seconds every now and then which was not great for the one percent lows apparently battlefield 5 single player does not like e-corps very much now moving over to gta 5 this is where it got quite embarrassing for the chad corners to be honest because the average framerate may be much lower with the e chords but the one percent low is significantly higher and it means that subjectively the game actually felt more just stable and less stuttery with just the e cores running which is pretty wild although i will say that um i could only run the benchmark once that was all i could do after i ran that benchmark once i couldn't load into the game or anything it would just crash in the loading screen every time so yeah gta 5 also didn't really seem to like the e cores very much aside from that one time the game ran pretty well on it but in terms of cs go and do maternal the average frame rate was quite a lot lower than the p cores but it was a very just surprisingly good showing but anyway now i think we need to put this e core performance into perspective and i think the best way to do that is to compare these four e cores to an old i5 that also only had four cores in them so i'm going to be comparing it to the i5 4690k which i had in the craigslist pc in my previous video it seems surprisingly close um that that rtx 3080 ti is so confused it's basically never been run in a system that makes sense and then today it's like the first system that makes sense and now i've immediately taken that away from it but anyway what we saw with the e-core setup was that in multiplayer it was actually okay but when we did the actual benchmarks that's when well that's when it kind of wet the bed so yeah let's see what happens with the the full-fledged i5 wow okay those e cores are are really impressive bear in mind you know in this comparison the the old i5 was using 16 gigs of ddr3 1600 megahertz as opposed to 64 gigs of ddr5 running at 5200 megahertz the extra capacity didn't really help because none of the games used more than like 12 gigs but the extra memory bandwidth definitely would have helped anyway even taking that into account i think that the e cores are surprisingly impressive yeah if you wanted to you could switch your p cores off and have a reasonable gaming experience maybe even a more stable gaming experience in some some situations which is pretty weird yeah that 12600k did seem to have some frame pacing issues in my tests uh but anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video byeoh yes now that everybody's lost interest in this new platform launch now is my time to shine and what better way to use a new product that people have already stopped caring about then use it in the least practical way possible ecore gaming hell yeah today's video is sponsored by leno lenode is a linux based web hosting service which according to g2 is the easiest infrastructure as service provider to use the node offers a wide variety of products including web hosting game server hosting they can handle any computational load you throw at them lenode also offers kubernetes solutions using k8 with horizontal cluster auto scaling that sounds very fancy in other news lenode also recently upgraded their block storage volumes with nvme drives which means you can get a huge speed upgrade at no extra cost if the node sounds good to you use the link in my description below to sign up for a 60-day hundred dollar free credit now for those of you that are a bit unclear as to what the e cores are that we're going to be gaming with today here is a very helpful diagram of the die of the cpu in the intel press packaging circa corsair so thank you corsair for sending over these cpus now basically this cpu has two types of cores it's got these huge chad gaming cores over here which are the performance scores you can see they're big chunky monster beasts each one of these is nice and fast it's a modern powerful cpu core and when you move down to over here you can see we've got these little baby cores four of them take up about as much space as one chad core these are the ones that kick in when you just need a lot of cores with a productivity use case or whatever and this is what we're going to game with today so we're going to switch off all the chad cores and we're just going to be using a little bit of course i was lucky enough to get sent two of these cpus so we have an i-912 900k which is like the big boy cpu in the lineup and then we also have an i-512 600k and i actually think i'm going to be using that cpu for this video because this has four efficiency cores and i think it'll be really interesting to see how this new i5s efficiency chorus section compares to an old i5 that just had four cores i think that'll be a really interesting comparison so yeah i'm going to use this one today now in terms of the motherboard we're going to use this rog strix z690 board which costs 400 i thought that the strix boards were supposed to be like fully featured value-ish gaming motherboards 400 is a lot for one of these although this very expensive motherboard was very kindly sent out by micro center micro center the place where nerds dreams come true the right choice oh wow that is a really awesome looking motherboard actually it reminds me more of like a like a formula board than a strix board so it may be very expensive but it is hella featured you've even got like a little look at that it's got like a little little strap on it for some what is this why and then the final bit of new hardware that i just want to go at is this kit of ram sent over by corsair thank you very much it's 64 gigs of ddr5 and it's dom platz which you know that's like the best ram so this is this is awesome i can't wait to get this up and running this is like if a b2 stealth bomber was a ram kit oh now this is actually a really cool feature it's a button up here that releases the pcie slot like clip because bigger graphics cards often make it really difficult to get to that and now you've just got a button up here you can press that's awesome wouldn't pay 400 dollars for that button but still it is it's cool that it's there okay so this is a little bit embarrassing but i don't actually have a cooler that can mount to this cpu socket yet um so i'm gonna have to get a little bit creative about how i mounted this deep cool cooler to the to the 12600k luckily asus very conveniently provides a little baggie of zip ties with this z690 strixboard i'm assuming for this exact use case wait actually it seems like this cooler is big and heavy enough for it to create decent thermal contact just with gravity so i'm gonna try it out like this before i actually zip tie it down uh because i think this should be okay and the zip tie situation down there's a little bit sketchy so i'm gonna drop in a fan there and then see maybe maybe it's okay without the zip ties now for tests like this you always want a nice baseline so here we have the cpu just stock running the way that intel intended i don't think i've ever seen sustained frame rates this high at 1080p ultra settings with battlefield 5 even with the 3080ti like we're running here although it is a little bit stuttery but that could be due to the fact that we're using directx 12. on a side note those cpu temperatures are amazing and it's just proof again that mounting hardware is for losers anyway let's have a look at a couple more games to see how this platform performs oh damn it there's always seven more than you expect so now that we have a baseline we need to figure out how to switch off those pesky chad cores to get to the real gaming performance hidden in these 12th gen i5s now i did go into the bios of our super fancy strix board and while you do have the option to switch off some of the p cores you can't switch off all of them the minimum you can have running at a time is one uh which is one more than we want luckily der bauer did actually beat me to this video and considering that he is a very smart legend person uh he figured it out really easily so thank you very much deb for showing me the light of process lasso which is a pretty cool bit of software if you want to see somebody that actually knows what they're talking about on this topic i definitely go check out his video i'll link it in the description below now basically how process lasso works is you can dictate which threads a specific process uh gets access to and then you can just switch off all of the p cores and tell process lasso to only allow e cores to run the video game and it works it works very well so with that i switched off all the p chords so that we can see what happens with battlefield v using four e cores whoa would you look at that it's pretty impressive right they're not supposed to be doing what we're doing with them here and it's entirely usable okay i i don't think i don't think the rtx 3080 ti would say that this is a usable experience going on here because it is not doing a whole lot but okay look at that you can play some battlefield 5 using e cores that's that's exciting now while the multiplayer gaming experience was surprisingly impressive uh the moment that i loaded up my single player benchmark run things didn't go as well the game would freeze up for a solid couple seconds every now and then which was not great for the one percent lows apparently battlefield 5 single player does not like e-corps very much now moving over to gta 5 this is where it got quite embarrassing for the chad corners to be honest because the average framerate may be much lower with the e chords but the one percent low is significantly higher and it means that subjectively the game actually felt more just stable and less stuttery with just the e cores running which is pretty wild although i will say that um i could only run the benchmark once that was all i could do after i ran that benchmark once i couldn't load into the game or anything it would just crash in the loading screen every time so yeah gta 5 also didn't really seem to like the e cores very much aside from that one time the game ran pretty well on it but in terms of cs go and do maternal the average frame rate was quite a lot lower than the p cores but it was a very just surprisingly good showing but anyway now i think we need to put this e core performance into perspective and i think the best way to do that is to compare these four e cores to an old i5 that also only had four cores in them so i'm going to be comparing it to the i5 4690k which i had in the craigslist pc in my previous video it seems surprisingly close um that that rtx 3080 ti is so confused it's basically never been run in a system that makes sense and then today it's like the first system that makes sense and now i've immediately taken that away from it but anyway what we saw with the e-core setup was that in multiplayer it was actually okay but when we did the actual benchmarks that's when well that's when it kind of wet the bed so yeah let's see what happens with the the full-fledged i5 wow okay those e cores are are really impressive bear in mind you know in this comparison the the old i5 was using 16 gigs of ddr3 1600 megahertz as opposed to 64 gigs of ddr5 running at 5200 megahertz the extra capacity didn't really help because none of the games used more than like 12 gigs but the extra memory bandwidth definitely would have helped anyway even taking that into account i think that the e cores are surprisingly impressive yeah if you wanted to you could switch your p cores off and have a reasonable gaming experience maybe even a more stable gaming experience in some some situations which is pretty weird yeah that 12600k did seem to have some frame pacing issues in my tests uh but anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye