Intel Core i7-6950X Benchmarked Against i7-5960X

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/05/2016 07:46 PM | source: | 28 comment(s)

If you check out our forums, you'll notice that Silicon Lottery has posted benchmark results of the Intel Core i7-6950X Tested Against a Core i7-5960X.

Overclocked it reached 4.50 GHz and got a Cinebench R15 score of 2327 points. At 4.00 GHz, it scored 1904 points, 19.5 percent higher than the i7-5960X at the same clocks (the i7-6950X features two extra cores). The 6950X is a ten-core chip with HyperThreading and a 25MB L3 cache / quad-channel DDR4 memory controller.

The memory read speeds were nearly the same, but the memory write speeds were found to be a staggering 35% percent higher on the i7-6950X.

Check out the post from our buddy at Silicon Lottery here.

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pimpernell
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#5279321 Posted on: 05/26/2016 07:26 AM

To expensive for private use, but i could see many professional uses for it.
Any news on the 6850k? I think i would like one of those.

BangTail
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#5282186 Posted on: 05/31/2016 07:40 PM

There is no basis for trying to figure out how much it will cost. Intel has never even hinted at the pricing. Everything is pure speculation, but it will probably be closer the $1000 mark.

Like I said, nowhere close to the $1000 USD mark.

These will easily hit ~$2400.00 CAD with tax and shipping.

http://search.ncix.com/products/?sku=129720

thatguy91
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#5282406 Posted on: 06/01/2016 03:33 AM

Don't forget that much of the price is due to a massive mark up on the CPU's. Due to costs of manufacture and everything else, raising the price by 40 percent (for example) could mean your profits triple.

Let me put this another way. If something is made after all expenses for $500 and sold for $600, the company makes $100. The end price could be say, $900. If the same product is sold by the company for $1000 (twice the price), they make $500 profit, an it could be sold in retail for say, $1500. By selling it for twice as much, they make 5 times the profit. If due to the increase in price they lose 40 percent sales, why would they care? They still make 3 times the profit.

It will be interesting what will happen when Zen comes in, with its 8 cores and 16 threads. Keep in mind that the Opteron version could have many more cores and threads, and it is really the Opteron that will be the competitor to Broadwell-E and Xeon. A direct comparison is a little difficult in this situation, but I do believe that a good Zen based Opteron system could prove to be quite effective against this 6950K.

BangTail
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#5282434 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:48 AM

If I didn't already have the 5960x, I would get it. I'll wait to see what Skylake-E looks like. Hopefully 12 or 16 cores with 8-channel 3200 MHz memory.

Same, better to wait for Skylake-E if you already own a 5960X.

Unless you absolutely must 'win' at Cinebench

nateluthje
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#5282467 Posted on: 06/01/2016 05:41 AM

I picked up a xeon x5690 for $390au. Vast improvement from my i7-950. Even though I only use my system for gaming, I have seen 20-25% improvement in frame rate just from CPU alone. Not gonna spend $1750 on 10-core CPU, plus I'd have to upgrade my MB and RAM. Instead, I'm gonna drop $2400 on 2 x ASUS 1080 STRIX. Will see huge improvement over my 2 x 7970 GHZ 6GB radeons.

Will finally be able to game at ultra in 4k! Been looking forward to this for a while!

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