[dogma1138]

Actually it's considerably faster, it's twice as fast as the 6700K in many applications that actually use multi-threading properly, this is a weird review, no blender, no encoding, nothing that uses the new instruction sets when comparing to the broadwell-E CPU's, really a poor review which is surprising considering the source.

[valarauca1]

>nothing that uses the new instruction sets

There are no new instructions in Boardwell-E. It doesn't support AVX512, and AVX2/1 are both part of stock Boardwell and Haskell.

The new MPX extensions are only in Skylake as well. Furthermore MPX isn't designed to increase compute, but help make bounds checking faster.

[dogma1138]

IIRC Broadwell has several improvements over haswell both in IPC and instruction sets, broadwell has support for ADX which can improve performance in various application such as encoding and compression.

The benchmarks for the 6950X show 2 times or higher the performance in winrar and various encoding benchmarks. almost 2 times the performance boost in ray tracing, and about the same one in blender.

This review is some what flawed they've selected all the wrong benchmarks, very few real world workstation / professional applications and their gaming benchmarks were completely wrong.

A gamer doesn't buy a 6+ core CPU to get better FPS they buy it to CPU encode on OBS or other streaming surface while gaming so a benchmark for any E series CPU should include that if you want to focus on gaming. If not there is no reason to post any gaming benchmarks Mainstream Core i7/i5 would always be better because even the best multi-threaded games out there don't scale with anything more than 3-4 cores and higher single core performance is king as far as gaming goes even in DX/Vulcan benchmarks.

[valarauca1]

>IIRC Broadwell has several improvements over haswell both in IPC

Broadwell was a dye shrink of Haskell but architecturally identical. It was just moving from 14nm to 10nm. There was no IPC improvements. When you compare the 2 chips performance the difference was literally clock speed [1].

Yes there were encoder changes but the iGPU isn't part of Broadwell. It's iGPU, that's like saying the DRAM controller, or PCIe master router is part of Boardwell.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9320/intel-broadwell-review-i7...

[dogma1138]

Yes Broadwell was a dieshrink of Haswell with 10-15% improvement in ICP but it also had a few instructional changes like ADX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_ADX