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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mapesdhs - Thursday, June 9, 2016 - link
By definition, professionals wouldn't use this kind of tech at all. Pro users don't oc. Pro users have a budget to afford XEON.The prosumer market though, solo professionals, those on a budget, these are the people for whom previous generations of SB-E/IB-E made some sense, but not anymore.
sleekblackroadster - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
This is the opposite of generating enthusiasm, Intel.jjj - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
This is what Intel means by more focus on certain segments and it will only get worse as the PC market fades away.damianrobertjones - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
No 6700k in the tests? :(damianrobertjones - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
Clicks the next page... DAMMIT!PJ_ - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
It was in the GTA V benchmarks for examplePJ_ - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
And many moremedi03 - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
AMD's CPUs aren't that bad for gaming (mostly because of multi-threading becoming a treand in games, thanks to consoles) as many people think:http://wccftech.com/fx-8370-i5-6400-gaming-compari...
josetesan - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
It will be great if , for next multi-threaded tests, Linux Kernel compilation times were added, as thay make great use of it, via the -J <threads> parameter.Some people use their computers to compile,and we benefit for multicores a lot. ( java, C, whatever ).
I can see the 6-core for $434 it a nice price, given Haswell i7-4770 has 4 cores and is similar priced.
Great review, indeed.
Tom Womack - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link
It's not clear that the 6-core Broadwell is very much better than the 6-core Haswell, and it's likely that its existence makes the 6-core Haswell cheaper; so pick up a 5820K in the near term.