Strangely enough, the 6950X actually puts in similar gaming performance to a 6700K despite the 1Ghz clock delta between them.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1730?vs=1543 At least in part I'd wager it's the much much larger L3 cache (25MB) on the 6950X making itself known and dragging lesser-threaded gaming workloads into performance contention. We see something similar without all the extra cores on the Broadwell 5775C desktop SKU, 3.3Ghz clock (-700Mhz to 6700K), 6MB L3 (8MB on 6700K) and a 128MB EDRAM L4 cache@50GB/s Thing actually blows past the Skylake part for gaming workloads in a lot of cases, especially in things relating to minimum framerate. Pertinent Anandtech Bench link: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1501?vs=1543 Makes me think my 6700K might get swapped out for a KabyLake if there's an Edram equipped SKU for S1151, all else being equal. (unless Zen is a straight up beast, because that could tempt me.) -JB On 27 June 2016 at 20:28, Bryan Seitz <se...@bsd-unix.net> wrote: > > A lot of games only optimize for 2-4 cores anyway so faster per core is > still > king. > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 02:24:01PM -0500, Greg Sevart wrote: > > Yeah, I don't game. > > > > I don't even need the 6950x, but I wanted it because reasons. :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On > Behalf Of James Boswell > > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 2:13 PM > > To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com > > Subject: Re: [H] Any one there ? > > > > A 6950X paired with an RX480? > > > > I'm guessing that's not a hardcore gaming build then, Because that's a > whole lot of CPU to pair with a mainstream GPU > > > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz >
