UserBenchmark: Intel Core i7-3930K vs i7-5960X

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Best Bench: 85% Base clock 3.2 GHz
Worst Bench: 63% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg)

Poor: 63% Great: 85%

SPEED RANK: 328^th / 1463

Gaming 74%

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Desktop 76%

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Best Bench: 94% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 70% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 1.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 70% Great: 94%

SPEED RANK: 242^nd / 1463

Gaming 80%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 77%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		74.4 %			80.5 %	Slightly faster effective speed. +8%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	85.2 Pts	87 Pts	+2%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	91.6 Pts	100 Pts	Slightly faster single-core speed. +9%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	182 Pts	201 Pts	Faster dual-core speed. +10%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	344 Pts	398 Pts	Faster quad-core speed. +16%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	548 Pts	718 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +31%


Memory OC Memory Latency	94.7 Pts	95.3 Pts	+1%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	112 Pts	128 Pts	Faster OC single-core speed. +14%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	223 Pts	254 Pts	Faster OC dual-core speed. +14%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	432 Pts	502 Pts	Faster OC quad-core speed. +16%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	684 Pts	920 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +35%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.02 %		0.02 %
Value Value For Money	75 %		82.9 %	Better value. +10%
User Rating UBM User Rating	63 %	More popular. +12%	56 %
Price Price (score)	$270		$250	Slightly cheaper. +7%


Age Newest	154 Months		121 Months	More recent. +21%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watts	Slightly more energy efficient. +7%	140 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	6 cores		8 cores	Much higher core count. +33%
Threads CPU Processing Threads	12 threads		16 threads	Much higher thread count. +33%
Lithography Manufacturing process	32 nm		22 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +31%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.2 GHz	Slightly faster base frequency. +7%	3 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	3.8 GHz	Slightly faster turbo frequency. +9%	3.5 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	841 Pts		1353 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +61%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	681 Pts		1075 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +58%


Series CPU Architecture	Sandy Bridge-E	Haswell-E
Socket Motherboard Socket	FCLGA2011	LGA2011-V3
Graphics Integrated Graphics	None	None
Launch Date Launch Date	Q4'11	Q3'14
Cache Cache	12 MB SmartCache	20 MB SmartCache
Instruction Set Extensions Instruction Set Extensions	SSE4.2, AVX, AES	SSE4.2, AVX 2.0, AES
Lithography Lithography	32 nm	22 nm
Recommended Price Recommended Customer Price	N/A	$999.00 - $1059.00
Max Turbo Frequency Max Turbo Frequency	3.8 GHz	3.5 GHz
Bus Speed Bus Speed	5 GT/s DMI2	0 GT/s
Memory Types Memory Types	DDR3 1066/1333/1600	DDR4 1333/1600/2133
Memory Bandwidth Max Memory Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	68 GB/s
PCI Express Revision PCI Express Revision	2.0	3.0
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The 3930K has an outstanding multi-core performance profile, almost as good as you can buy at any budget, which considering its relatively reasonable price tag really make it stand out from the crowd. The reason for the extraordinary multi-core benchmark scores is down to the 3930K's six cores. Having six cores effectively results in a 50% lead over quad core cpus and a 200% percent lead over dual core cpu's. Typical desktop users rarely use more than two cores simultaneously thus rendering the additional four cores largely redundant for consumer use. In terms of regular use this CPU will offer virtually no better real world performance than the leaders in my Desktop CPU Group Test. For server orientated workloads the 3930K offers both outstanding performance and superb value for money. ^{[Jun '13 CPUPro]}

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The Intel 5960X sports eight cores and sixteen threads. That's two more cores than we have ever seen on a consumer processor before and as such this $1,000 processor offers record breaking multi-threaded CPU horsepower. Unfortunately the 5960X is clocked at just 3 GHz base and 3.5 GHz turbo which, for single and dual-core workloads, renders it around 15% slower than a $69 G3258 on stock clocks! The 5960X is only compatible with Intel's new X99 chipset which requires new DDR4 RAM and is currently far more expensive, with little consumer benefit, than DDR3. All in all the i7-5960X processor is largely irrelevant for consumers as it's far far too expensive. ^{[Sep '14 CPUPro]}

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