{"id":79249,"date":"2015-07-30T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=79249"},"modified":"2015-07-30T17:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:31:32","slug":"intel-core-i7-6700k-is-faster-than-6-core-i7-5820k-in-gaming-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/79249-intel-core-i7-6700k-is-faster-than-6-core-i7-5820k-in-gaming-benchmarks","title":{"rendered":"Intel Core i7-6700k is faster than 6 core i7-5820K in gaming benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

We agree, we\u2019ve talked enough about Intel\u2019s Core i7-6700K \u201cSkylake-S\u201d CPU, most recently when an intrepid overlocker managed 6.5 GHz with liquid nitrogen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the i7-6700K continues to impress, and it\u2019s gone and done it again.<\/p>\n

The fact that the 14nm Skylake CPU is faster than the 22nm Devil\u2019s Canyon i7-4790K is fairly established, but what about when it takes on much bigger opponents, like the much loftier i7-5820K.<\/p>\n

\"Intel<\/a>

The Core i7-5820K “Haswell-E” is more expensive than even the i7-6700K, and for good reason.<\/p><\/div>\n

Coming in at around $50 more than the upcoming i7-6700K, the i7-5820K is part of Intel\u2019s High-End Desktop (HEDT) range, and easily one of the most capable Haswell chips you can buy.<\/p>\n

It sports 6 fully unlocked, Hyper-threading<\/a> enabled cores, which means 12 threads \u2013 that\u2019s 4 more than the i7-6700K has.<\/p>\n

On top of its increased core\/thread count, the i7-5820K has 15 MB of L3 cache, a clock speed of 3.3 GHz and a clock speed boost of 3.6 GHz.<\/p>\n

What that means is quite a bit more compute power, so does the i7-6700K\u2019s microarchitectural improvements make up the difference? Let\u2019s find out.<\/p>\n

According to WCCF Tech<\/a>, a source has benchmarked and compared the i7-6700K \u201cSkylake-S\u201d, i7-4790K \u201cDevil\u2019s Canyon\u201d, i7-5820K \u201cHaswell-E\u201d and Xeon-based E3-1231 v3 \u201cHaswell\u201d in a number of tests, and we\u2019ve got the results for you.<\/p>\n

But first, the credentials of the contestants:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Category
\n<\/span><\/th>\n		Intel Core i7-6700K
\n<\/span><\/th>\n		Intel Core i7-5820K<\/span><\/th>\n\u00a0i7-4790K<\/span><\/th>\nIntel Xeon E3-1231V3<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Codename<\/td>\nSkylake-S<\/td>\nHaswell-E<\/td>\nDevil’s Canyon<\/td>\nHaswell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Process<\/td>\n14nm<\/td>\n22nm<\/td>\n22nm<\/td>\n22nm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU Cores<\/td>\n4\/8<\/td>\n6\/12<\/td>\n4\/8<\/td>\n4\/8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graphics<\/td>\nIntel 530<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nHD 4600<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Base Clock<\/td>\n4.0 GHz<\/td>\n3.3 GHz<\/td>\n4.0 GHz<\/td>\n3.4 GHZ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Turbo Boost<\/td>\n4.2 GHz<\/td>\n3.6 GHz<\/td>\n4.4 GHz<\/td>\n3.8 GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
L3 Cache<\/td>\n8 MB<\/td>\n15 MB<\/td>\n8 MB<\/td>\n8 MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unlocked Design<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TDP<\/td>\n95W<\/td>\n140W<\/td>\n88W<\/td>\n80W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch Price<\/td>\n$350<\/td>\n$398<\/td>\n$339<\/td>\n$250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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Just keep in mind that Windows 10 promises to make much better use of additional CPU cores and available threads, meaning that benchmarks and games coded specifically for Windows 10 and DirectX 12 should change the results in favour of the i7-5820K somewhat.<\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019ve gotten that out of the way. First up, the CPU-centric benchmarks.<\/p>\n

Intel Core i7-6700K CPU Performance Benchmarks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\t\t