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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-Tj-
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#5283601 Posted on: 06/03/2016 01:16 AM

I doubt you will see8 channel memory. I mean where would you put all those ram dimms then?

even quad channel is a bit overkill with all those dimms

But I hope on entry 8core though.. Well it should be logical if I go by past entry upgrades.

Sandybridge, Ivybridge : 4core entry
Haswell, Broadwell:6core entry
Skylake, cannonlake: 8core entry

EDIT: or there will be 6channel ram after all lol
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52336/intels-next-gen-skylake-processor-arrive-lga-3647-socket/index.html

Also new huge socket - LGA 3647

BangTail
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#5283717 Posted on: 06/03/2016 09:54 AM

8 cores are more than enough for gaming at the moment.

Seems Skylake-E will still be using LGA-2011, but possibly V4 of the socket. 6 channel memory as well. Skylake-E looks pretty boring from a technology standpoint. Nothing new. Will wait for Kaby Lake X.

Yah, a good thing about buying the EE every few cycles is that you really do get your money's worth for the most part.

I'm still running a 3930K in my HTPC and it is still a great chip (even if the X79 platform is a little dated now) and you can always throw in add in cards for more SATA 3.0, USB 3.0 et al.

nz3777
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#5283790 Posted on: 06/03/2016 01:33 PM

Ive seen em at Micro Centerhttp://www.microcenter.com/product/463389/Core_i7-6950X_30GHz_LGA_2011-3_Intel_Processor $1,599.99 So just a penny under $1600 dollars.I hate when they price items that way to make em look cheeper lol.Why not just say 1600 plus tax?! No $1,599.99 Looks cheeper haha.Oh for sure now I will buy one! :banana:

I have a couple of buddys that still work there that can get these through the Intel edge program.....They end-up costing 1/3 the price . I think I might have to dig-up my little black book soon.

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