Intel 6950X Review - A $1,700 Processor??
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- Do more cores make for a better processor? Let's find out if the Intel 6950X can justify its seemingly ridiculous US$1,700 pricetag...
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"A $1,700 Processor??"
Amazing what you can get away with when you have no competition whatsoever.
In zen we trust. I belive that they will deliver.
I REALLY hope they do because we DO need some competition already, badly. And not just on the CPU front; Nvidia has also been pulling some BS, too, since the 600 series. "Titan" shouldn't even exist.
They will defietly not compete with broadwell-e
+Andrés Cifuentes There's worse : the GTX 1060 is rumored to be better than the RX 480, in the same price range. I see the future being bleak for AMD in the PC department.
Wait for releases and benchmarks, I say.
Which is funny because I have only ever had one of their CPUs and found it to be frustratingly slow. Now I'm running an FX 9590 CPU, just need to upgrade the liquid cooling I have now.
So basically an expensive processor that's not worth its price.
Welcome to intel
hardly lol
no but ok
companies are being like apple these days..
not even apple will go this farr
imagine this:
July 2016: $1089 for 8 cores
February 2017: $330 for 8 cores (Ryzen 1700)
Yeah that's the power of amd
2024 : 5700x 8 core 168$
and the xeon e5 2689 v4 which is basically the i9 6950x is about $60 dollars on aliexpress.
It's fun to rewatch this in 2019, when AMD releases a 16-core desktop chip for less than half the price of this ;)
It's almost 2021 for me
It's fun to rewatch this in 2020, when it's about time that leaks appear for AMD's 6950X with 16 cores for half the price and more than double the price
Imagine showing this Luke the Ryzen 9 3990x or a 5950x.
@@jakem5039 Shoking
Oh yeah 2021 is amazing for CPUs and dickhead for gpus
I'm suprised they didn't add RGB lighting to that processor
Clock it high enough and additional lighting is the last thing you'll need...
LOL
Made my day xD
NO!
RGB FIREWIRE SLOTS
I've got RGB on my cpap machine
Damn 10 cores would be nice, but $1700 in my bank account would be nicer.
How about 12 cores for around $400?
Ryzen 9 3900x. Sorry I’m 4 years late.
@@jakem5039 how about 16 cores for 400 dollars?
For future - How about 32 cores for 300 dollars
Watching this on end 2019, right after 10980xe/3950x and 3rd gen threadripper, it's really interesting to see how much things changed in 3 years !
Same again in another 3
Just uh, not necessarily in tech this time
It is 2019 and I'm watching this on my R9 3900x (12 Core 24 Thread) Cpu and paid 500 € for it which is a less than a third than the 6950x. What time to be alive :)
I wait for the next comment of the future to have even more cores and power.
What's incredible is you can get the 24 core 3960X and it'll STILL be cheaper than this CPU.
Competition BAY-BEE!
Yes cheaper but much slower 😉 damn uneducated noobs imao. The haswell-e and broadwell-e cpus more specific the i7 5960x and i7 6950x destroys ryzen cpus 😉 mostly because of the quad channel memory and high mb cache.
If you're testing CPU's in games: ArmA 3 is your only CPU stressor.
Exactly lol.
Fucking twice the price of my pc
lol
triple mine lol
quadruple the price of mine lol
Half the price of mine.
my pc is only $300 lol
4 years from now you can get it on ebay for $60...
4 years from now we will have 40 core cpus, and you will look stupid with your 10 cores
you mean uncool :D
I wish this were true, but it doesn't seem that cpu's lose value like you would expect. I bought a workstation with only one of it's two cpu sockets populated expecting to just wait a few years and fill the second socket "affordably". But here I am seeing the price hasn't changed one bit... Intel appears to be very good and knowing when to stop production so that the supply is always far enough below the demand to keep prices up on older models.
Yeah a couple months back I sold my old i5-2500 for nearly $150 I was very surprised it was still worth that much.
Probably... but also probably won't care, since at some point the constant increase in cores will outrun the *need* for an increase in cores... If it hasn't already. My current quad core does everything I need to do with no problems at all, so I would gain nothing from jumping to an 8 core or larger...
Why is this not useless tech over $100?
cause it still is useful for non gaming tasks like rendering and encrypting
Because it is not an iPhone
sick burns yo
damn shots fired to Apple, nice one
Because Intel is one of their sponsors...
I could buy two 1080's and still have enough for a decent CPU
+- luigiisgreeny - You can't SLI the 1080. So it would be pointless to buy 2. You can with the 1070, so buy three of those!
+jos loren You can. But you can't SLI more than two.
yes you can sli them just not more then 2........
+bas van der werff Yeah, and SLI with more than 2 can hurt performance a lot of the time anyway
You guys just don't get it... sad.
It only has 2 more cores than the fking 5960x......
5960x- 1000$
6950x- 1700$?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Gtfo Intel
EDIT: I forgot to mention LOWER clock speeds
ikr
BUT 10 CORES!
its like cars. its a logarithmic graph. price vs feature. :(
I hope AMD makes a fking comeback. Living in a world with just nvidia and Intel is scary af
+Daxter Yah
If you want cores: Intel Xeon (Although that's more for servers)
If you want gigahertz, overclocking and all that: Intel i5 or i7
If you want an oven: Any other AMD CPU
+Forgotten Memes nope.
I have an AMD athlon the the max temp I got was 41 C on a stress test
Hey, when you live somewhere cold it's nice having my AMD space heater :D
Let me correct you.
Cores - Xeon or FX.
Clock speed - Pretty much all AMD CPUs are clocked higher than their Intel counterparts.
Overclocking - I'm not sure about Intel but a CPU in the FX lineup overclocked to 8.4.
Oven - It doesn't matter about the CPU just use the stock cooler. Any stock cooler will heat up your room. Well, except the Wraith.
6850K and 6800K seems to have best value determined by whether you want that 40X PCI E lanes.
Just bought the 6950X for video production - got it up to 4.3GHz easily with Intel XTU (probably can hit 4.4GHz) and so far has been performing amazingly with Premiere Pro and 4K RAW footage.
Aaron Nanto no one hear is giving as big about the processor they care about the fucking 1700 price tag.
If you want a 10 core CPU, you're going to pay for it.
James Carter oh, how times have changed.
I thought of trying to reach the maximum O/C on my i7-6950 extreme.
4.2Ghz is fine... anymore is just risking the chip merely for bragging rights and negligible results.
The CPU for people with more money than brains
More likely you are just a gamer than a content creator then.
+Lionel Lim if you are a creator you should probably get a xeon
sinomsinom I have a x99 mobo as a spare, why should i spend just the few extra dollars for a xeon mobo and the chip? unnecessary indeed.
Wel, this CPU is not made for watching videos on youtube, browse Facebook or play video games... But in the case of working with multithreaded programs, this CPU is for people who want to have a higher productivity, that might really well worth the price tag depending on their needs.
Well, time is money, and if you have to do your workload AS FAST AS POSSIBLE, well then, you might want to get a 7K$ Xeon, I mean, if nobody was buying them, Intel wouldn't even start to make them...
That being said, I also don't understand exactly the "point" of this 6950X with consumer grade mobo...
Maybe he's filling the gap between Xeons and top of the line consumer grade CPU? That would require to test Xeons to see where this chip stands and if the price tag is within that range.
This processor is amazing
I can have 98,206 tabs open
all on pornhub with no slow down
+Atakan TEKE yes, not CPU
+Atakan TEKE I figured it'd be both... But it'd probably eat up RAM more.
look at their 4tb ram build lol
Won't a lot rely on Wi-Fi?
you dont need good wifi for pornhub, the quality is usually at like 240p
This is the first video I've seen on your channel. Love it! Subscribed!
Wait, what?
damn...
threadripper has 16 cores and 64 PCIe lanes and costs 999$
To think you can buy three Ryzen 3900X 12 core processors, and still have $200 left over for lots of beer and a couple of McDonalds icecream cones.
64 cores
5800X has the same performance as 1950X in 8 cores for around $450
$1700............that can buy a lot of potatoes.
Just over 5000 potatoes...
+Dax Daily hell nah, way more
Over 1.6 tons of it over here in Sweden!
Now 1.6 tons of potatoes or a CPU, which would it be!
I want your potatoes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+Meh I'd go with the potatoes, there's just so many different ways to use them. I'd make mash potatoes, scalloped potatoes, soup, fries, and more!!!!
of cores it's expensive!
sorry had to
the door is right there
+yrjosmiel73 That was a good pun. Don't PUNish him.
+AMK follow him on the way out
core blimey that's terrible :)
That was a very Intelligent pun
$1700?
Try $2700 in Australia :(
Try $2100 (usd, not aud) in Hungary...
straya
count yourself lucky, its a half million pounds in UK.. and even more expensive in Greece
Lol it's $2400NZD ($2300AUD) in NZ
Someone could explain to me why people in Australia are alway sad about that higher price tag...? It's not like australian dollar is the same af US dollar, so why some poeple act like those are equal...?
Looks more like a processor for workstations in the CG community than for games.
There you need mostly many cores and you get a lot better value with a xeon cpu. there is no real reason to buy this 6950x
Exactly what I thought when my friend told me about this.
Yeah, your'e basically better off with a 6700k Skylake for gaming, unless your running 3 or 4 gpus. And this has basically been obsoleted by Nvidia, so, yeah.
I do CG and I got the i7 6900k and it works really fast for renderings!
Sano Boss that's not the same cpu. the 6950x is 50% more expensive for only two more cores. In this price regions are xeons with a lot more cores and power for renderings.
Intel be like, "because we can" next up, Titan P
6950x overlocked 2500$
Titan P rumored to be +50% faster than the 1080 so it's legit
+runescapefan0001 there also reporting it'll only cost $1000. Which for 50% faster is awesome!!
+runescapefan0001 They just need to call it The Titan D.
+Stephen J the Titan xD
$500 is the most i'd spend on a CPU
Nigga $500 is the most I'd spend on my entire computer... JK
No seriously though #PoorManProblems
I though I splurged when I traded in my i5 4690k for an i7 6700k, ha.
+Kyle Gruber im gonna change my i3 4170 to i5 4690.
GMD Dervig I got a gnarly overclock on mine. 4.8 ghz, i don't remember the volts though.
Kyle Gruber you cannot overclock non-k processors anymore, but thats not a problem coz i only got gtx 750 Ti 2gb gddr5
Nuts how fast things have changed over 3 years
Cough *Rebranded Xeon *
unlocked, not rebranded
Technically a rebrand since it does nosay "XEON" on it. Bit I7. So yeah.
that shit isn't worth it
get a xeon
***** This processor is good for nothing. It's price is horrible
***** That's a lie a xeon with the same specs as a core i7 can handle gaming alike
There's no reason to get this overpriced shit
Made me feel good about 6700K purchase. =3
same :]
Love my 6700k
6700k is the gaming master race i love to overclock it tho
That tittle belongs to the 4790K.
likewise
$1,700
Divide that by 100 and you get 17
1 meaning I
And 7 meaning, well, 7.
I7
*i7
Creative.
7/2= 3.5
GTX 970
+Hiro Hito lol
OMG ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED
does it play minecraft or will i have to get a gpu? (sorry for bad english im welsh)
XD
tbh i dont think it can run minesweeper
/sarc
Yes that will Run a Game Like Minecraft. Fine as Long as You Have a Gpu That Can Run its as well
MJS Clan lol XD
U NEED SOME BRAINS 1st!
And in 2020 I get 500 more points in Cinebench R15 at a quarter of the cost.
God I love the progression of tech.
CPU ?
I plan on spending nearly one thousand dollars less on my PC than this single CPU.
Who is this for again?
Linus and jay. No one else
i just get my PC for 700$ lol
Actually, I might pick one up to use in a dedicated encoder server (broadcasts to twitch.tv and nothing else.) in OBS at the slowest compression setting. That's the price you pay for constant, consistent 24/7 1080p60 broadcasting though.
For content creator who does high res video, trust me , that waiting time in premiere is fu*king long when you don't have the right rig, otherwise , don't get your wallet stuck in a lga 2011-v3 motherboard for gaming, its great, but seriously pricey as I5 or i7 (6500 - 6700k) does very well .
My old i5 3570k hits the same benchmarks as a newer i5 6600k so yeah Intel has really not done anything with their i5sin a number of years at this point in time. www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=828&cmp%5B%5D=2570
AMD, come to the rescue!
We tend to forget how much we can thank AMD for... The only company to act as competition on the CPU and GPU front that avoids two monopoly to form... Otherwise you would pay way more for the NVidia cards or Intel CPUs.
Luckily Zen is coming out soon and that will mean real competition again.
Go Red!
i have an amd card and i hate it.... too many fucking notifications with stupid info like updates(useless updates) or if the catalyst software is working.... i really dont give a shit about their catalyst thing
+Alex Ban I don't get that at all, just a notification at startup.
Why are you still running catalyst? Get Radeon Software by now haha unless you have a really shit old AMD card which only run catalyst in that case no wonder you hate it.
Ame Nightcore AMD HD 7650m .......
"The 6950X, our new 10 core processor!" -Intel
"The 6950X, your new lame excuse for a consumer grade processor. May as well make the X stand for Xeon" -Dyl
Little did they know thread ripper would come
I have an hd6950. Has it just massively gone up in value? Or am I missing something here?
lol
are you serious? lol
yes, you are missing some IQ
just in case you were serious: the hd 6950 is a few generations old graphics card and the product in the video (i7 6950X) is a new cpu.
Don't worry, not serious. just my dry sense of humor being a bit dry
4:52 It's not Corsair Dominator; it's Corsair Vengeance.
except, outside of the stock footage in that one shot (I assume they get wrong) you always see dominator ram.... Just saying. Makes no real difference.
That was just a video editing mistake, it seems they were showing the test bench in which they used the 6700k, however, the main test bench does have the Corsair Dominator ram sticks.
They had both Ram models, at about 5:00 you can see.
no thx ill stick with intel 4004 and GeForce 256
lol
I'll stick with my AMD A10-5700 and R7 360.
Ornstein the DragonSlayer It isn't gross, it is actually a really nice CPU for what I need to do with it.
Ornstein the DragonSlayer Gross? They are decent CPU's (APU's) they are not high end but they are more than enough for a lot of people.
have a gtx 960 and an a10 7800. great for DOOM at medium settings
I just bought one for $160 on Ebay and running at 4.2Ghz for my PC X99 motherboard . run everything smoothly .
Ordered a pizza and its 2am in California nothing to watch thank you Linus tech tips you are entertaining
Ari!!!!!
Yay another girl that watches Linustechtip!!!!
I'll sub to you .
Customer Service India not really... worked all day and I was hungry.
You could order over 100 medium pizza's for the price of one of these chips. Mmmm pizzzzaa...
+JohnnyForehead chips cost like $5 u can't buy a pizza with that
Pretty sure my 6600 will deliver stellar performance for years to come. This is madness.
ark.intel.com/products/88188/Intel-Core-i5-6600-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
I miss those q6600 days.... and qx6850's and stuff
I am pretty sure my i5 3570k is on par with your 6600 and its 3 gens older www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=828&cmp%5B%5D=2570
I'm about to buy a second-hand i7 6700K for $200. Judging from the posts of 2500K owners, that CPU should remain competitive for many years.
So we should hope. They're making it too easy for Intel right now.
It's interesting to see this video and read the comments after all these years :-D
Upgrading from my i7-2600k to a 5820k (both at 4.6Ghz) I saw literally no performance boost for the vast majority of the titles I play. (Synthetic benchmarks obviously showed an increase)
Until games are specifically developed for rigs with tons of cores/threads, it's a waste of money.
then you are either bottlenecked by your GPU or you are misremembering your framerates on your older system
+Niko Yochum Um...no? You really shouldn't expect to see a huge performance boost in most games with that upgrade.
Thomas Riddle depending on clock speed, you should. The 5820k has about a 15-20% IPC boost over the 2600k.
Niko Yochum Ok sure, but as long as the cpu wasn't a huge bottleneck before, most games will probably not benefit much from the slight improvement.
Niko Yochum As I said in my comment, both of them are at 4.6Ghz. I monitor my system with AIDA64 custom panel (imgur.com/K0GfhQh).
Most games still tend to be very heavy on a single thread, with little use of the remaining threads.
Take note that for games that are optimized for multiprocessing, I did see some improvement. What I was trying to say is that it's still not the case for the majority of games. Maybe DX12 will bring in a new era of multiprocessing and we'll finally to get more out of those sleeping cores, but until then it's pretty much a 'luxury' if the main purpose of your system is to game.
Nobody cares about the 6950X at that price point unless you're getting it for free. Just go buy a 12 core Xeon you'll get ECC support as well.
I hope Zen can beat the 6900k at least because it's supposed to be priced at $350 is so it means that the 6900k and 6950k will have to be price cut HEAVILY to compete. even if Intel only has to drop the 6950X to $1000 it's still a VAST improvement, and still that's insane but at least it's in line with basically every extreme CPU Intel has ever made.
Like seriously even if I had $2000 just burning a hole in my pocket and no other real use for it I still wouldn't buy the 6950X.
They're just like we made this because we can .
***** That's not what I said I said the 6900k but if they drop the price of the 6900k there going to drop the price of the 6950X.
I also said to it would drop to the $1000 price point the 6900k will probably drop to the $500 - $600 price point and the lower once will drop to launch prices of the 6700k so around the $350 mark.
If it's true that the Zen 8 core 16 thread CPU is $350 and can beat the 5960X in multi threaded performance. And given that's what they told there investors it's likely true given that lying to you're investors can actually lead to law suits.
+Asshai by the Shadow zen will compete with the 6950x even if they arent as powerful but zen will cost more than 350$/€
No Zen wont compete because its two different markets. AMD does not want to really anyways, there is such a thing as a market being to small for multiple companies. The niche the 6950x is in, is exactly that sort of market.
Matthew Jackson There is no niche for the 6950X at $1700 well sorry people with too much money but other than that no.
Because if you're a small business you should be using a 12 core xeon which performs almost just as well and is tested to a much higher standard for reliability. And has ECC support so that you're data wont get corrupted in memory.
literally this CPU is for idiots with too much money.
if your most intensive task is gaming, get the i5 6600k. You can overclock it to match a 6700k and you don't need hyperthreading for gaming
Hey guys does this CPU come with an integrated motherboard, RAM and GPU and.... case ? xDDD
i just bought the 6950x .. I justified buying it because i like to game, but also i do lots of multitasking.. and it eats up my cores.. so i'll be playing a game, music streaming, downloading newsgroup files, assembling rar files, streaming a movie, all at the same time, might even be browsing chrome with 20 tabs open.. so i guess im a power user. plus honestly, it's also partially bragging rights.. just to say bought one. .lol. I'm looking forward to assembling my new rig!
GTX 1080 - EUR 769,99
INTEL CORE I7 6700K - EUR 338,00
Asus Z170 Pro Gaming - EUR 154,57
Corsair VENGEANCE 16G - EUR 81,87
WD BLUE 1TB - EUR 50,05
Corsair Hydro H100i - EUR 106,00
Corsair 100R - EUR 55,79
HyperX Fury 480GB SSD - EUR 119,99
TOTAL = 1,676.26
i like you intel but for that price i have a high end gaming machine! :D
the prices in this list is very accurate you can check them out if you want :D
oh fuck i forgot the psu haha go get your own psu im done searching the internet haha :D
I will wait for 10 years until this becomes a $100 processor 😊
by then they will have 1000 cores 10000 threads and 1000Ghz
+Joseph B. No doubt..lol..was just kidding
Robin Puri
ye i know ^^
Then people are going to feel bad about your "crappy" system.
I am gonna screenshot this then put it in a damn time capsule, lol
i bought a 5930k on release day. has been OCed to 4.6GHz since day. best money i ever spent. SLI running in 16x + 16x PCI-E configuration plus room for a sound expansion card. won't have to upgrade again until like 2020.
THIS is what I NEED for my studio! Either the 6800K, 6900K or the 6950X. For starters, I do 4K video PLUS my audio VSTs like Falcon and Omnisphere can MAX OUT 1 CORE! So, to be able to OC a core? Priceless!
Can you do a compression to a similarly priced Xeon so you can check if there is really a point
Not all Xeons are. However, the ones that are clocked fast, ark.intel.com/products/92992/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1680-v4-20M-Cache-3_40-GHz, for example, cost about as much as the i7-6950X. Some cost much more (ark.intel.com/products/91750/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2687W-v4-30M-Cache-3_00-GHz).
Its impractical to buy a xeon. The mobo for a x99 still can be used for multiple generation without changing one almost every year.
if you looking for performance in rendering you aren't caring about all these features .you only care about raw performance
I'm still rocking a i7-4790K.
Same, it is still a mighty beast and runs everything i have xD
Here I am with an AMD FX 6800
I'm still running an i5-4690k, never needed anything more.
KingdomOfDimensions Yeah, i5 is cheaper and is very close in game comparison.
I ended up having respect for my CPU and PC in general, I thought it had little power as a custom yet I can run it on Overwatch and DOOM 4's highest settings at 50-60 FPS.
Chayson Dam I was actually considering an FX6800 at the time I built my computer. Definitely not a bad choice considering it's price/performance. Whatever works, works right?
Turbo boost 3.0 with the "pre-binning" done at the factory is awesome!
The only video that actually makes sense.Thanks.Helped a lot.
Im still running my AMD Athlon 64X2 6000+ in my old Dell Inspirion. I just added more ram and new graphics card. Smooth as day one!! 1080p vids!! haha
Sounds great to me! I'm running an AMD Athlon 64x2 4000+ on a Dell re-cased Inspiron 531MOBO, with 4 Gig of dual channel DDR2 PC-6400 400 MHz Corsair RAM, and an HIS IceQ (ATI) Radeon 4670 1 Gig DDR3 128 bit PCIe GPU, Thermaltake 460W PSU, 7 fans, blue LED, Windows 10, build 10586. Works great for me.
+HUBBABUBBA DOOPYDOOP heck yeah upgrading saved me from buying a new PC! I hope it runs many more years... Awesome set up by the way. At one time we had the best processor!!
adaboy4z Actually-
Search Wiki about the AMD Athlon 64x2.
(at the time) It was "the only processor *_engineered_* specifically to run Microsoft Windows without any Workarounds" (added software code that allows non-compliant hardware to function).
Sit in the middle and suck on it, Intel.
+HUBBABUBBA DOOPYDOOP I didnt know that! I bought my processor on ebay for about $40 bucks last yr with heatsink and extra memory I was told it was an oldie but goodie so far its a winner no hiccups!!
But 1080p vids are laughably easy...
May we see a 5820K vs 6800K video please?
Great Idea!
They already made a video comparing and benchmarking this two cpu's ^^
Krabberknam they made a video comparing the 6700K to the 5820K but not the 6800K. Please provide me a link to prove otherwise.
Oh I red 6700K not 6800K.. pls dont be mad :(
Krabberknam lol, why would i be mad? ^_^ it's an honest mistake and you corrected yourself. have a wonderful day, okay?
mid 2022, this system is still great and value for money. just power consumption is a bit high.
I think R5E board with 2690v3 for 150 usd is a better choice.
I might come back to watching this channel regularly again,it seems Luke has finally gotten a better haircut and is not doing those stupid weird faces anymore with jokes that made me want to kill myself multiple times a day.
$1,700?
Welp, now AMD doesn't look so bad.
lol, have to agree. im gonna wait for Zen first though! who needs the extra performance for $1200 more!
AMD? Nope. I benefited from intel rather than AMD.
Honestly, I might buy a zen cpu next, even if intel's cpus might be better. AMD is a fraction of intel's size, in terms of employees, market share, etc. but AMD keeps the prices low; AMD is the only reason that the 6700k doesn't cost $1700 as well. If AMD goes away, Intel will be charging whatever the hell they want because they're the only CPUs that you can buy. I'd gladly give AMD my money, because intel is taking advantage of its customers. Bastards.
+ganymedeIV4 fair enough
AMD is the reason the 6950X costs $1700. Intel does have some forsight, and knows what a monopoly means to them. AMD is valuable to Intel, without them, Intel's profit gets siphoned by various governments through anti-trust laws. Intel is actively encouraging people to consider AMD if they're on a budget with this chip, thus avoiding a monopoly.
Glad to see my 6700K pulling ahead of enthusiast processors.
I'm considering this simply because I "Multibox" I run 13 accounts of EvE Online at once, being able to almost assign each window to it's own core with ISBoxer, this is really advantageous.
Still rocking this in 2021, things a beast when OC!
Whats your max stable oc and how is the temp?
@@daddyalpha2648 4.2ghz for me with around 40-50 degrees under load. Nzxt 280mm aio
@@3DAntoine you cant go any higher? 4.4 ghz?
@@daddyalpha2648 it gets weird at 4.3 for me, could be my 750w 6 year old psu. But seen others get to 4.5
meanwhile I'm laughing my ass of with my FX6300 of 90 euro's
i have a fucking a4 6300. lucky basturd
+Alpay Aygün HAHAHAHA LMAAOOO DUDE FUNNY
He's laughing because his CPU is garbage and it's much lower in cost .Garbage products tend to be much lower in price compared to high end products...
the FX6300 gets it's ass wooped by an i3 6100 lmao
i have an fx 8350 and it preforms decent at 2560x1080, i only experience "bottlenecks" in some games but i am thinking of upgrading to an i5 6600k just to see what its like ;p
Just bought this processor, 2 Titan X Pasacals, 64GB Ram, Rampage 10th, a 512GB M.2 (boot) and 6 SSDs (for 3 raid 0 arrays). If I don't get at least 60fps (at 3440x1440 res) in League of Legends, Counter Strike and Gears 4, I will be slightly upset.
128gb 2x Titan xxxxxxxxxx lol and 10 core cpu and 2076 LGA socket
This is actually an amazing product if you work with modern DAWs and audio plugins that run true multithread. Though the core speeds are slower, the amount of cores to break the load across really increases the power of the system and creates a more stable machine and DSP overall. This is why we use dual or triple Xeon CPUs at the studio since they can split load over all those cores even with the slower clock speeds and low to no overclocking potential.
So the 6700k is a beast for gaming and the 6950X is a beast for video encoding and media creation. Super happy i got the 6700k.
CPUs with a name like 69 XX? IM IN!
In 2200
Intel realeses a new i7 with 14702027402749284927492 Cores!
Pause at 1:18
He is like AHHH
It would have been good for when Linus did a video on using the extra power of your gaming rig for a server because the extra cores could be used by the server part whilst the other cores could be used for gaming which could also take advantage of the clock speed
I think that plunking down a cool grand for the 5960X was totally worth it. Of course I'm talking about a machine used professionally for audio/video editing. I would have never spent that much on a gaming computer, let alone one built purely for bragging rights. So, the 6900K makes sense to me. But spending a further $700 for two extra cores...I don't know how wise it is, especially considering that it won't get you a dramatically better performance than the 6900K (+10% on average, maybe?) My 5960X is overclocked to 4.0 Ghz and it's EXTREMELY stable. And that was a conservative choice, since 4.2 Ghz was also very stable on my tests, but I just wanted some safety room, since my livelihood depends on this computer... So, by all means, get a 6900K for your content creation, crank it up to 4.2 Ghz (base clock is slightly higher, so 4.2 should be as stable as 4.0 is on a 5960X), add a 1080 GPU and you'll have a video editing monster that's really hard to beat, short of forking out $20,000 for a 36-core workstation (which will need custom software to be fully exploited, since neither Premiere nor Resolve can use that many cores...)
Yeah, maybe, but the thing is, you can buy an FX-9590, the best 8 core AMD chip, is only £170-£200. You could build a whole high end PC with 16GB 1866 DDR3 ram,a decent 970 board and a GTX 980/ 980 Ti and a water cooler so you can overclock your 9590 to 4.6GHz+ for better single core than a 6900K by miles for the same price/cheaper than a 6950X.
Also, you could chuck in a Western digital blue and a pny 240GB SSD.
+TheSearcher31 you could buy that whole 8 core roof for the same price as one 6950X lol.
The fx cpu will have much worst single core performance
clock speeds isn't everything, even an i5 6500 running at stock clock of 3.4ghz will easily beat the single core performance of FX 9590 oc'd to 4.6ghz. the 6900k at stock will run rings around both of them no problem at both per clock speeds and multi-core perfromance
Edit: also don't forget that you use MUCH faster motherboards with 6900k becuase it's a 2011v3 chip set design
+legendp2011 this is true, but both the 6500 and 9590 have better single core perf. than a 6900K.
But why. What usefulness does this provide? for cinebench renders you'd want to use Octane Render rather than pure CPU rendering anyway. Lightroom is a single threaded application so this won't help adobe bound folks. I guess if you're using a Sony alpha camera you can edit like mad in Phase One but I'm not sure which professional content creation applications would benefit from such a CPU. Perhaps after effects and premiere? What about davinci resolve and speed grade? You mentioned that this isn't for gaming and then never brought up applications that content creators would use. Strange.
I'd like to know how this could improve the efficiency in a digital media perspective. Photoshop batch process times, color grading, mocha tracking, etc. How well does this help in programs like audition and Ableton live? Those are CPU bound applications which can be taking on mid range systems especially with a lot of effects added into a track. Just wondering. It doesn't seem like you guys are set up to test for a variety of real world uses for content creators... Which is a bit ironic. Canned benchmarks are fun but never really true to life in terms of real world performance. Yes, I know what I'm saying means this video would take 50x as long to produce but it's just some feedback.
+Joshgts hahaha nice
Assuming you're new. LTT doesn't go that deep into video editing uses. Maybe if they got Ed or Brandon to do a vid geared toward that, but in general, doesn't happen.
I would really love for this to happen, actually. Nobody benchmarks for audio apps like Ableton Live, which utilize multicore processing (but not threads). It's not easy to assess because I read something a while ago in Sound on Sound Magazine about how some of the enthusiast processors actually performed better than comparably priced Xeons. But that was two years ago. If a Linus channel did stuff like this, rather than say "It's not useful for gaming, so screw it," then it would be insanely useful content.
+Rob Boles I agree. I'd love to make that content for folks like us who are interested but the price point for these parts is a bit out of reach. I agree with you 100%
I would love to see a i7 vs Xeon smackdown from you guys. It is a little known fact that you can get a i7 equivalent Xeon for cheaper in some scenarios. For example the 1270 v5 vs the 6700K OR the 1241 v3 vs the 4770. In both match ups the Xeon is cheaper with a lower TDP and I would love to see how much of a performance/fps difference a lower TDP can make in essentially the same processors.
Wow, the car engine cylinders comparison is surprisingly accurate. Most people only really need 4 cores or 4 cylinders.
Meanwhile, with my i5 4460...
Meanwhile with my i3 2120 :(.
beat my i7 970...
Meanwhile with my G3258 D:
+Dc vs Marvel honestly the 2120 isn't too shabby... runs most all games
Meanwhile with my Q6600...
nope, i don't want a "new" processor, with a new mainboard and Ram if I can play anything with my i7 4790k at 4.6ghz
very useful processor for film scores and similarly large-scale music project production where DAW projects split jobs nicely amongst cores.... as well as using many plugins which work on a single core each, and benefit, sometimes require, higher single clock speed...
The difference in price between the LGA10xx and the LGA20xx series was reasonable up to the 4th gen of processors. I got my i7-4820k as soon as it came out. I have no regrets, at the time it costed the same as the 4790 and it has quad-channel capabilities. Awesome, I do play games but not as much as I work with the computer. I can tell it's worth when compiling in 8 separate thread, or when dealing with virtualization.
one thing i hate about pc gamers is that they don't understand that a cheap gaming pc can run anything on the market and an expencive pc is so you can show off to your friends to feel good about your life
It can run anything but at lower settings. Most people come to pc gaming to break away from low average setting they want the ultimate experience. That's what all of the pc market plays off of. Even the cheaper AMD know how to abuse the market by offering the ultimate experience( which is can't deliver) for a fraction of the price
But my $50,000 PC that almost costs as much as my future runs everything at 0 FPS :(
Correction my good man, those are dumbasses of which you speak of :3
Not sure how good you should feel about your life if you pay $1700 for a CPU just to show off to your friends ;)
"Most people come to pc gaming to break away from low average setting they want the ultimate experience. "
Pretty sure "most people" play video games on their PC because they want to play video games on their PC. Most people don't care about FPS, or graphics.
Can it run Minecraft? Kappa
no
No .kappa
+hugo falkvall Noo BibleThump
Alone, no. With a graphics card and some RAM, yes.
Ask Santa for a dragon, more realistic.
As I'm a student studying games development at university, i bought the asus x99 strip motherboard, 32gb corsair dominator LPX and the 6850k for my gaming/production computer as I didn't want to restrict anything, as I'm using software such as autodesk maya, 3ds max, mud box, and also game engines like unreal and unity and on the gaming side having 40 lines, as i will be upgrading the graphics card to a GTX 1080, possibly in ski, mainly because of cud and also VR game development and play. yh, $18,000 is too much, that price tag is more for server class hardware.
I have a suggestion for the charts. Reading them will be easier if you keep the products/entries in constant places no matter the results.
Guys, what's better for 3D rendering:
1. 6950x and GTX 1080
2. 6900k and 2 GTX 1080
If the rendering software can use CUDA, then dual 1080s would be better.
2Shae What's the main purpose of your comment? Please elaborate.
Best thing is wait for the 108ti, get 2 of those, and either the 6800k or the 6850k.. Otherwise for mostly gaming and some content creating the 7700k would best for you given it will be out a few months before the 1080ti..
Dillon Scott Do you know that softwares like Modo, Blender and Maya are CPU heavy? Every core is important, that's why i'm asking. And 1080 Ti isn't going to come for a long time, probably not sooner than a year. And not to mention that they'll be more expensive
Better use a dual Xeon setup....
is i7 4790k considered good anymore....?
Very.
Of course, it still a beast (self experience)
good cuz i bought it like a year ago then everyone was like OMG 5900X or whatever
Yup, installed mine last month, absolutely love it
ArtemisTheGreat me too bro
I just ordered a PC with a 6800k, as the build is going to be used for gaming whilst streaming+recording at resolutions of at least 1440p. I think for that kind of use (High Res gaming + streaming + browsing at the same time on a multi screen setuo) a 6 core count will help over the 6700k. For gaming only, 6700k.
There are a lot of engineers who need to have both single core performance (CAD design where the kernal makes sequential computations) and multi-thread performance (FEA or Toplogy/Topgoraphy Optimized Design). Additionally, it seems like ECC memory isn't as hard of a requirement these days, so some specialist manufacturers are actually recommending using i7's instead of xeon's for business use. This made more sense a few months ago when there was still a v3/v4 architecture gap between the two product lines, but at least this might give you some insight as to who is actually buying these things.
i miss luke presenting
I could buy two Vives with that..
Or 3 1070's
+Mordant221 Or 6 1060s.
or 6 RX 480's with change to spare.
or 1,750 bags of .99 chips
In 10 years the price will probably be allot cheaper best to wait
Would love to see live streaming to twitch benchmarks. It would be good to show aspiring streamers what new tech can improve performance and quality for their streams.
Most 3d renderers are now allowing you to choose how many cores to use for rendering which allows you to choose a single core or more to be dedicated for the system and apps. Using the highest overclocking core for other apps and system might be a good choice so having the choice for that is nice.
i7-6950X vs dual Xeon E5-2670. Please.
you will but none
+נדב רון ה5 not all the time
XD sure m8
Two Xeon E5-2670 will wrech an i7 6950X, at 26000 for the xeon versus 20000 for the i7 in passmark and cinebench gets a measly 1900 for the i7 and 2017-2300 for the dual Xeons. Not even a contest.
Rasmy Samy I think 2x Xeon E5-2670, Asus Z9PE-D16C/2L, AMD RX 480, 16x 8GB DDR3-1600 ECC RAM sticks, Samsung 850 Pro 512GB, a 800W power supply and a full tower case can all fit within that $1700 budget can't they?
when is Intel going to release their i9 processors? i7 has been out for years!!!
why would they release an i9 range? do you realize that the i7, i5, and i3 were all released at the same time?
Anyways. the i3 just means low end, the i5 is mid-range, and the i7 is high end. All it does is signify the market it's directed towards.
So when listing the AMD APUs and Intel Core series, it goes: Core 2, i3, A4, i5, A6, i7, A8, i9, and A10
://ReaperReaper lol ,what? not even comparable.... In the AMD APU range, the number represents the CPU cores + GPU shading cores
Niko Yochum Missed the joke completely.
I like how Luke's t-shirt matches the Intel 6950x box. x'D
I managed to get my i7 6800k stable at 4.4GHz 1.35v, cooled by a Hyper 212 EVO. Never went above 50c while gaming or benchmarking. Im using a custom loop now because I saved up money for one though. Not sure if it's just a silicon lottery jackpot, but it's an absolute monster of a chip for the $330 I paid at the local Microcentre
Update: X99 chips have gotten much cheaper, have a 6950x coming in tomorrow, paid $290 with shipping! The 6800k has been dead stable the last 3 years, ran it at 4.2GHz 1.23v for daily use, only cranked it to 4.4GHz 1.35v for Benchmarking. She's still doing remarkably well though, I'm planning to try to snag a cheap X99 board now to build a computer with the 6800k for my roommate. Hopefully X99 motherboards start getting cheaper soon though, they're still holding value somehow. Nevertheless, still very happy with X99, and I can't wait to see how the 6950x does in my system!
A $1,700 processor?
pfft i could buy a complete gaming set with that money.
Boi he already said that
+Owen Taylor some people on TH-cam read titles instead of watching videos
$1300 complete water cooled AMD 1700 system with SSD LOL $1700 CPU only what a joke. So $1700 plus case, cooler, ram, Drives, Power supply, Video card ~ $ 2450+ Nice try but not even fucking close.
My Pc Is Not Even The 4th Half Price Of This............
call center's not payin' how they used to eh?
Why did I automatically think of Bernie Sanders when I read this comment...
But we still TOOK YERRR JUBBSSS!
A 1/4 of half the price?
+sik59rt so $212? lol
Turbo Boost 3.0 actually helps A LOT with single-core processes. Anyone with a bit of patience using per-core overclock can also make this CPU be fantastic for single & multiple core processes alike. It really is the best out there, but it just doesn't justify the price.
i5-8500 is a 6-core, if you undervolt it by 140mV in a SFF box, watts at wall is only about 65w under full BOINC load. like.. 40 percent of a 6950x. can u undervolt a 6950x? effiiency mode of AMD 5950x and 7950x is sick efficiency.