The Intel Broadwell-E Review: Core i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7-6800K Tested
by Ian Cutress on May 31, 2016 2:01 AM EST- Posted in
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- Intel
- Enterprise
- Prosumer
- X99
- 14nm
- Broadwell-E
- HEDT
Office Performance
Dolphin Benchmark: link
Many emulators are often bound by single thread CPU performance, and general reports tended to suggest that Haswell provided a significant boost to emulator performance. This benchmark runs a Wii program that ray traces a complex 3D scene inside the Dolphin Wii emulator. Performance on this benchmark is a good proxy of the speed of Dolphin CPU emulation, which is an intensive single core task using most aspects of a CPU. Results are given in minutes, where the Wii itself scores 17.53 minutes.
WinRAR 5.0.1: link
Our WinRAR test from 2013 is updated to the latest version of WinRAR at the start of 2014. We compress a set of 2867 files across 320 folders totaling 1.52 GB in size – 95% of these files are small typical website files, and the rest (90% of the size) are small 30 second 720p videos.
3D Particle Movement
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores.
Web Benchmarks
On the lower end processors, general usability is a big factor of experience, especially as we move into the HTML5 era of web browsing. As browsing moves into a multithreaded arena and web applications get more advanced, it is all the more important to have an appropriate level of performance.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1
Google Octane v2
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ShieTar - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
You could have saved some money by not ordering a CPU on the very first day of availability. Other than that, there is no downside to having a 6800K instead of a 5820K, its just not vastly faster.ezcameron76 - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
What would have been the difference in getting it say next week or at what time would you say would be better. I have to have the PC build by this Thursday so didn't have the time but I wouldn't think the price would change in a short amount of time.ShieTar - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
About 50$ I assume. Don't know how to find this info for the US, but in Germany prices have dropped by 30€ from yesterday to today:http://geizhals.eu/?phist=1394467
ezcameron76 - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
I paid $450 on neweggezcameron76 - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
My question is should I return the 6800k for the 5820k as it will overclock better or no?ShieTar - Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - link
Not really, the first 10% of better OC will be wasted on compensation of the IPC improvement anyways. And with virtually no CPU-limited games out there, you don't really need to OC anyways.TEAMSWITCHER - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
I'm not sure. Most of the reviews are overclocking the 10-core 6950X. I'm wondering if there will be some sweet 6-core parts (6800K and 6950K) that overclock great because the four disabled cores are used separate the six functional cores. I'm speculating that having active cores separated by inactive cores might help to impede thermal accumulation.It's a funny thought I had today, but I don't know of any way to find out which cores are disabled.
HighTech4US - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
Where the heck is the GTX 1080 review?It's been weeks since the NDA was lifted on it and now with the NDA lifted on the GTX 1070 nothing again.
Since there was time to do this review excuses about not enough time to do a proper review won't hold water.
fanofanand - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
960 *cough*JanSolo242 - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
For a mere $4,115, why not order a 22 core Xeon? :-Dhttp://ark.intel.com/products/91317/Intel-Xeon-Pro...