The Intel Haswell-E CPU Review: Core i7-5960X, i7-5930K and i7-5820K Tested
by Ian Cutress on August 29, 2014 12:00 PM ESTLoad Delta Power Consumption
Power consumption was tested on the system while in a single MSI GTX 770 Lightning GPU configuration with a wall meter connected to the OCZ 1250W power supply. This power supply is Gold rated, and as I am in the UK on a 230-240 V supply, leads to ~75% efficiency under 50W and 90%+ efficiency at 250W, suitable for both idle and multi-GPU loading. This method of power reading allows us to compare the power management of the UEFI and the board to supply components with power under load, and includes typical PSU losses due to efficiency.
We take the power delta difference between idle and load as our tested value, giving an indication of the power increase from the CPU when placed under stress. Unfortuantely we were not in a position to test the power consumption for the two 6-core CPUs due to the timing of testing.
Because not all processors of the same designation leave the Intel fabs with the same stock voltages, there can be a mild variation and the TDP given on each CPU is understandably an absolute stock limit. Due to power supply efficiencies, we get higher results than TDP, but the more interesting results are the comparisons. The 5960X is coming across as more efficient than Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E, including the 130W Ivy Bridge-E Xeon.
Test Setup
Test Setup | ||||
Processor |
Intel Core i7-5820K Intel Core i7-5930K Intel Core i7-5960X |
6C/12T 6C/12T 8C/16T |
3.3 GHz / 3.6 GHz 3.5 GHz / 3.7 GHz 3.0 GHz / 3.5 GHz |
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Motherboard |
ASUS X99 Deluxe ASRock X99 Extreme4 |
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Cooling |
Corsair H80i Cooler Master Nepton 140XL |
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Power Supply |
OCZ 1250W Gold ZX Series Corsair AX1200i Platinum PSU |
1250W 1200W |
80 PLUS Gold 80 PLUS Platinum |
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Memory |
Corsair 4x8 GB G.Skill Ripjaws4 |
DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133 |
15-15-15 1.2V 15-15-15 1.2V |
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Memory Settings | JEDEC | |||
Video Cards | MSI GTX 770 Lightning 2GB (1150/1202 Boost) | |||
Video Drivers | NVIDIA Drivers 337.88 | |||
Hard Drive | OCZ Vertex 3 | |||
Optical Drive | LG GH22NS50 | |||
Case | Open Test Bed | |||
Operating System | Windows 7 64-bit SP1 | |||
USB 2/3 Testing | OCZ Vertex 3 240GB with SATA->USB Adaptor |
Many thanks to...
We must thank the following companies for kindly providing hardware for our test bed:
Thank you to OCZ for providing us with PSUs and SSDs.
Thank you to G.Skill for providing us with memory.
Thank you to Corsair for providing us with an AX1200i PSU and a Corsair H80i CLC.
Thank you to MSI for providing us with the NVIDIA GTX 770 Lightning GPUs.
Thank you to Rosewill for providing us with PSUs and RK-9100 keyboards.
Thank you to ASRock for providing us with some IO testing kit.
Thank you to Cooler Master for providing us with Nepton 140XL CLCs and JAS minis.
A quick word to the manufacturers who sent us the extra testing kit for review, including G.Skill’s Ripjaws 4 DDR4-2133 CL15, Corsair for similar modules, and Cooler Master for the Nepton 140XL CLCs. We will be reviewing the DDR4 modules in due course, including Corsair's new extreme DDR4-3200 kit, but we have already tested the Nepton 140XL in a big 14-way CLC roundup. Read about it here.
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botijo - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
I wonder, isn't RAM specially expensive in the builds?icrf - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
Are the Xeon versions of these chips still slated for release in two weeks after IDF? I want more cores plus AVX2, but I also want VT-d.TheinsanegamerN - Monday, September 1, 2014 - link
All 3 of these support VT-d.icrf - Thursday, September 4, 2014 - link
Ah, I realize now that I'm really after a motherboard question. Support was usually restricted to server chipsets.Solix - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
I'm still not sure I was able to glean enough data to determine efficiency. If we consider that third party sata 6 and usb 3 is just fine by me, and DDR3 price is nice and 1.35v cas 8 is easy, the question becomes a little more murky. Is AVX2 still broken (I believe that was what was being disabled in micro code right)? If so, and given that I use 3 GPUs and some pci-e SSDs, 5820k is less interesting to me. So my current 4930k vs. a 5930k, for me, comes down to power efficiency under load once overclocked and undervolted. This box is more active than it is idle and my experiments on the desktop showed that a properly overclocked ivy bridge at 4.8ghz or so could go toe to toe with a haswell at 4.3ish but was more power efficient in the process. Maybe I stick with the 4930k. What do you think folks?jwcalla - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
TSX is still broken, yes.Ammohunt - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
yet another new socket?!?!?!?! F U intel.StealthGhost - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
2500k / 2600k benchmarks to compare against would be amazing.Etern205 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
Cinebench R15 Multithread benchmark. Did the 5960X really get a "1337"?JumpingJack - Monday, September 1, 2014 - link
Yes, it really got 1337 for CB R15, several sites are showing around the 1330 mark:http://techreport.com/review/26977/intel-core-i7-5...