Intel i7 5820k or Intel i7 6700k

[JComp24]

I'm buying a new custom PC should I buy Intel i7 5820k or Intel i7 6700k. Is Skylake the enthusiast platform surpassing Haswell-e?

Let me now... Thanks.

[Swndlr]

What do you plan to do with the new PC?

Id say 5820K cuz more cores and there really wont be a difference if any at all and the 5820K will do better for heavily CPU bound workloads.

[beach_boy98]

Most likely the 5820k but depends on uses.

[JComp24]

What do you plan to do with the new PC?

Mostly Gaming and Photoshop and a bit of Video Editing.

[x Relentless Xx]

I'm buying a new custom PC should I buy Intel i7 5820k or Intel i7 6700k. Is Skylake the enthusiast platform surpassing Haswell-e?

Let me now... Thanks.

To answer your question, no skylake is not surpassing haswell-e

To make things easier to for you:

Mainly gaming - i7 6700k

Mainly Production (Video Editing) - i7 5820k

The 6700k has ZERO problems doing a bit of production work

[Swndlr]

Mostly Gaming and Photoshop and a bit of Video Editing.

Id go X99, the 5820K should outperform the 6700K in things like PS and video editing.

[JComp24]

To answer your question, no skylake is not surpassing haswell-e

To make things easier to for you:

Mainly gaming - i7 6700k

Mainly Production (Video Editing) - i7 5820k

Does Skylake use custom Mobo or just LGA 1150

[tomas710]

Does Skylake use custom Mobo or just LGA 1150

it's a new socket, LGA 1151

[x Relentless Xx]

Does Skylake use custom Mobo or just LGA 1150

Skylake uses a new chipset. LGA Socket 1151 on the Z170 chipset. It also utilizes DDR4 Memory

[tomas710]

I'm buying a new custom PC should I buy Intel i7 5820k or Intel i7 6700k. Is Skylake the enthusiast platform surpassing Haswell-e?

Let me now... Thanks.

The 5820K will pretty much beat the 6700K in almost every task, except gaming, where there will be no difference, the same way a 4930k or a 3960x would beat a 4790k, the extra cores improve performance by much more than the typical 5-8% you get from each intel gen. So, if you want a enthusiast gaming/editing/streaming/rendering rig, get the 5820K, if you want it for mainly gaming and little of the other stuff, get a 6700k

[bomerr]

To answer your question, no skylake is not surpassing haswell-e

To make things easier to for you:

Mainly gaming - i7 6700k

Mainly Production (Video Editing) - i7 5820k

The 6700k has ZERO problems doing a bit of production work

let me fix that.

 

low-budget: 6600k

high-budget: 5820k

 

there is absolutely no point in getting the 6700k because the MSRP is 350 USD. Newegg is selling the 5820k for 390. 

DDR4 costs the same between CPUs. 

Z170 and X99 mobos overlap in price (there is even a sale right now for sub 200 x99 mobos)

 

hence there is zero point in getting the 6700 as the price is too close to the 5820k. For 40 extra dollars you get twice the cache and 2 extra cores, so about a 40% performance boost even factoring in the higher IPC/clock speed of the 6700. It's a no brainer really and that 40 dollars extra is probably the best bang for the buck increase right now.

 

6600k is worth considering if money is tighter tho.