An Overclock.net user named Silicon Lottery has conducted various benchmark tests using Intel’s flagship Core i7-6950X processor, PCGamer reports.
The user released the benchmark results on the Overclock.net forums, and directly compared the hardware to Intel’s current high-end Haswell-E processors.
The Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E processor has 10 cores with Hyper Threading support, and features high-end specifications that compete with the current top-of-the-line Haswell-E processors.
Silicon Lottery benchmarked an engineering sample of the Intel Core i7-6950X processor and compared it to an Intel Core i7-5960X.
Here are the specs of the i7-6950X and the benchmark comparison:
| Intel Core i7-6950X Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Process Node | 14nm |
| Cores | 10 |
| Threads | 20 |
| Core Clock | 3.0 GHz |
| Boost Clock | 3.5 GHz |
| Cache | 25 MB |
| TDP | 140W |
| Intel Core i7-6950X vs Core i7-5960X | ||
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Core i7-6950X | Core i7-5960X |
| Cinebench multi-core score | 1,904 | 1,592 |
| Cinebench single-core score | 151 | 160 |
| XTU score | 2,354 | 2,001 |
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How is this a “gaming” processor? Is it a facebook-browsing processor too?