[POLL] i7-5820k (X99) vs i7-6700K (Z170)

[Strivous]

Hello all,

I'm thinking of upgrading my system's CPU and Motherboard, which I won't be doing again for a long time.

That being said, my use case is fairly common: Mostly gaming (from low to high intensive games), web surfing, some programming, photo editing, might get into some video editing later on after this semester.

 

Going through the forums, most people and benchmarks show similar performance between the 5820k and 6700k up to quad core usage, but with the 5820k pulling out above 4 cores (6).

 

It seems that the Z170 Chipset is new and modern with having powerful but efficient CPUs. While LGA2011-v3 is quite a bit older, its conidered to still being more future proof in comparison to LGA-1151, from what I've read.

 

DirectX12 is supposed to utalize more cores so, 5820k in theory should have better performance in the long run, no?

 

Aesthetic is also important, but most X99 and Z170 Chipset boards are visually appealing anyways.

 

These are two sample builds I put together:

Z170: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/8Z4M99

 

X99: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/zLBQ8d

 

Still paying about $100 more for 2011-v3 route. I don't mind paying a lot once for things that will last and perform well for a long time.

 

What do you guys think? I may have overdragged this topic.

 

 

[Arty]

Should google some benchmarks between the too. 

[Nacho Marco Segui]

5820k, so you can upgrade to Broadwell-e in case you need it

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

5820k, so you can upgrade to Broadwell-e in case you need it

"will not be upgrading again for a long time"

 

most of the programs and games he is using will benefit from the 6700k better core performance

the 6700k is also very close to the 5820k in rendering, so since you can render perfectly fine on a 6700k spending an extra $100 for worse 5820k performance in everything except rendering is not really ideal

[Nacho Marco Segui]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

"will not be upgrading again for a long time"

Ok, need to read everything, thanks for pointing out

[Samfisher]

6 minutes ago, Strivous said:

 

DirectX12 is supposed to utalize more cores so, 5820k in theory should have better performance in the long run, no?

 

 

 

That's not what DX12 does.  DX12 uses cores more efficiently, which means the less cores you have, the bigger jump in performance you will see.

[Samfisher]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

 

the 6700k is also very close to the 5820k in rendering, 

Does it really?  I fail to see how a small IPC increase from Haswell to Skylake beats having 2 more cores and 4 more threads in rendering, of all things.

[jorenc]

Here you go! But you will most likely benefit more from Z170 in my experience. 

[AMICLG]

11 minutes ago, Enderman said:

"will not be upgrading again for a long time"

 

most of the programs and games he is using will benefit from the 6700k better core performance

the 6700k is also very close to the 5820k in rendering, so since you can render perfectly fine on a 6700k spending an extra $100 for worse 5820k performance in everything except rendering is not really ideal

He says he does some programming so if he decides to do Linux VMs then the 5820K will be extra handy.

 

Otherwise 6700K is the better option.

[Enderman]

13 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

Does it really?  I fail to see how a small IPC increase from Haswell to Skylake beats having 2 more cores and 4 more threads in rendering, of all things.

 

 

 

 

[Streetguru]

5 hours ago, Strivous said:

 

Always X99 if you can afford it, it's simply the better overall platform. Aside from the extra cores it's just all the features the motherboard gives you, like 28 PCI-e lanes at base. not that most people will ever actually use them.

[Streetguru]

4 hours ago, Enderman said:

 

I'm just going to guess that those are all with the 5820K at stock speeds? as it's pretty easy to get it over 4ghz at least.

 

Also Broadwell EP was finally announced, so that has the 5% performance gain from haswell as well.