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
- CPUs
- Intel
- Enterprise
- Prosumer
- X99
- 14nm
- Broadwell-E
- HEDT
Alien: Isolation
If first person survival mixed with horror is your sort of thing, then Alien: Isolation, based off of the Alien franchise, should be an interesting title. Developed by The Creative Assembly and released in October 2014, Alien: Isolation has won numerous awards from Game Of The Year to several top 10s/25s and Best Horror titles, ratcheting up over a million sales by February 2015. Alien: Isolation uses a custom built engine which includes dynamic sound effects and should be fully multi-core enabled.
Total War: Attila
The Total War franchise moves on to Attila, another The Creative Assembly development, and is a stand-alone strategy title set in 395AD where the main story line lets the gamer take control of the leader of the Huns in order to conquer parts of the world. Graphically the game can render hundreds/thousands of units on screen at once, all with their individual actions and can put some of the big cards to task.
For low end graphics, we test at 720p with performance settings, recording the average frame rate. With mid and high range graphics, we test at 1080p with the quality setting. In both circumstances, unlimited video memory is enabled and the in-game scripted benchmark is used.
Grand Theft Auto V
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise finally hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA in tow to help optimize the title. GTA doesn’t provide graphical presets, but opens up the options to users and extends the boundaries by pushing even the hardest systems to the limit using Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine. Whether the user is flying high in the mountains with long draw distances or dealing with assorted trash in the city, when cranked up to maximum it creates stunning visuals but hard work for both the CPU and the GPU.
For our test we have scripted a version of the in-game benchmark, relying only on the final part which combines a flight scene along with an in-city drive-by followed by a tanker explosion. For low end systems we test at 720p on the lowest settings, whereas mid and high-end graphics play at 1080p with very high settings across the board. We record both the average frame rate and the percentage of frames under 60 FPS (16.6ms).
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hoohoo - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
Single thread performance lower than previous generation, but more cores. Sadly the price is totally out of line.I want to upgrade from an i7-3820, these things do offer the bang but the buck is definitely missing.
hoohoo - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
Shouldn't they be using their GTX 1080? The games do not seem to be CPU bound. Am I reading the charts wrong?pavag - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
"For $1721, [...] can invest in either the 14-core E5-2680 v4 [...] or get double the cores in a 2P system and using the E5-2640 v4 processor: a 10-core 2.4 GHz/3.4 "Ok. You said it, you own it.
Do the benchmarks and compare. I actually need it.
Seekmore - Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - link
Intel I7 6950x-Like it already? It is overpriced and is the most expensive in the history of processors till the date. An excellent Processor with excellent performance calculated for its price and features it supports. One of the fastest processor ranking high in the category.http://www.comparecpus.com/en/intel-i7-5960x-vs-am...
Get other details of Intel I7 6950x Extreme Edition to find out why is everybody looking for it..
Spunjji - Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - link
I saw the prices and threw up a little in my mouth. This is market capitalism at its nadir :(Spunjji - Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - link
...specifically with respect to the tech industry, obviously - didn't to be that hyperbolic.stimudent - Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - link
I just need to do my banking and watch porn. 56 cores should do the trick.Gothmoth - Thursday, June 2, 2016 - link
multitasking is the word.i use lightroom, photoshop, autopano giga at the same time very often.. every core helps.
or i render out a video with premiere while i edit a composition in after effects.
iGigaflop - Thursday, June 2, 2016 - link
I'll keep my 5820k i was kicking myself for not waiting 2 months for the 6800k but broadwell might be a little faster per clock but it doesnt overclock as good as haswell. I run my 5820k at 4.7 at 1.313 volts i think mine in a great overclocker and it never goes above mid 70c. But for everyday use i keep it at 4.2 and it stays around 50c. Im using a h100v2 and a cm storm stryker case. I think pretty much every 5820k should go 4.3-4.5ghz. And im running it off a asus x99 deluxe board. I just hope they keep the x99 v3 socket for skylake e.Jackie60 - Friday, June 3, 2016 - link
Why do you bother with the pointless GPU limited benchmarks-it's a total waste of time and effort and tell us nothing.