i7 Thoughts

[Gaged]

Should I get an i7-5820K or an i7-6700K?

[Littlelaner]

Don't know much about either of them, but I would go with 6700k, also scored higher in CPUboss.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K

[AresKrieger]

Do you think you will use the extra cores or not, honestly the price difference isn't that much so if you do things like rendering I see no reason to not go 5820k

Just now, Littlelaner said:

Don't know much about either of them, but I would go with 6700k, also scored higher in CPUboss.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K

Bad way to compare things, that site is pretty BS

[somebody*]

Just now, Littlelaner said:

Don't know much about either of them, but I would go with 6700k, also scored higher in CPUboss.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K

heard that cpuboss isnt realy that great. the cpu with the most ghz will win. or something like that.

[manikyath]

Just now, Littlelaner said:

Don't know much about either of them, but I would go with 6700k, also scored higher in CPUboss.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K

cpu boss is to a cpu, what a scale is to a potato.

it gives you a number, that number is irrelevant to the taste.

 

userbenchmark is kind of the forum's resource of choice:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K/3502vs2579

[Coaxialgamer]

Depends. What are you going to do with your PC ?

[Nena Trinity]

I vote for 5820K.

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

cpu boss is to a cpu, what a scale is to a potato.

it gives you a number, that number is irrelevant to the taste.

 

userbenchmark is kind of the forum's resource of choice:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K/3502vs2579

All those pages are bull. LOOK UP REAL TESTS FTW!

[Gaged]

Which one would be better for gaming that is more CPU sided than GPU?

[Gaged]

Just now, Gaged said:

Which one would be better for gaming that is more CPU sided than GPU?

Also, a bit of editing, not much tho.

[AresKrieger]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

cpu boss is to a cpu, what a scale is to a potato.

it gives you a number, that number is irrelevant to the taste.

 

userbenchmark is kind of the forum's resource of choice:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K/3502vs2579

 

And even that seems to be flawed in this case, I think the test they are using must be limited to 8 threads or something based on the results they get

[007agentHP]

5 minutes ago, Littlelaner said:

Don't know much about either of them, but I would go with 6700k, also scored higher in CPUboss.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K

cpuboss is the worst

use passmark or userbench

[Kuri]

If you are doing editing or other work with your PC where it's better to have

more CPU cores go with the 5820K. If not get the 6700K.

 

Also price difference is around 100-150$ since the motherboards are more expensive

so I wouldnt recommend the 5820K just for gaming.

[manikyath]

Just now, 007agentHP said:

passmark

passmark kinda got on my "blacklist" after they had a series of quite unfortunate "this cant be right" results.

[AresKrieger]

Just now, Gaged said:

Which one would be better for gaming that is more CPU sided than GPU?

Most games 6700k since it has higher clock speed potential, games that can use more threads 5820k (there aren't many that can though) the 5820k isn't better for gaming usually so your better off with the 6700k

[Gaged]

2 minutes ago, Gaged said:

Which one would be better for gaming that is more CPU sided than GPU?

 

1 minute ago, Gaged said:

Also, a bit of editing, not much tho.

BTW would an i7-4790K be better than the 6700K with it's higher boost clock?

[Enderman]

6700k is better for gaming, streaming, recording, and just as good at editing.

[AresKrieger]

3 minutes ago, Gaged said:

 

BTW would an i7-4790K be better than the 6700K with it's higher boost clock?

They are about the same if stock is compared but if you overclock or compare the same clocks the 6700k has a slight edge (+3-8% ipc and a higher clock potential)

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

All those pages are bull.

ellaborate?

 

i prefer userbenchmark because it tells the whole story, based on a large number of chips, not just whatever luck of the draw the writer of the benchmark gets.

- single core performance

- quad core performance

- multi core performance

- splits between integer workloads and floating point

- etc.

 

userbenchmark has its flaws, but they mostly seem to be "flawed equally across the board" instead of having some awkward failures like not mentioning the 295x2 only uses one of its GPUs in your benchmark.

[SLAYR]

5 minutes ago, 007agentHP said:

cpuboss is the worst

use passmark or userbench

I wouldn't recommend passmark as while they are less biased then cpuboss they still rate an amd 9590 better then an i7 4770k.

3 minutes ago, Gaged said:

 

BTW would an i7-4790K be better than the 6700K with it's higher boost clock?

No, as skylake has IPC improvements, and also has support for newer texhnologies like ddr4.

[GSTARR]

So far I've seen you ask which one will perform better in games that are cpu heavy, and you do a bit of editing.

If you have the money, get the 6700

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

ellaborate?

 

i prefer userbenchmark because it tells the whole story, based on a large number of chips, not just whatever luck of the draw the writer of the benchmark gets.

- single core performance

- quad core performance

- multi core performance

- splits between integer workloads and floating point

- etc.

 

userbenchmark has its flaws, but they mostly seem to be "flawed equally across the board" instead of having some awkward failures like not mentioning the 295x2 only uses one of its GPUs in your benchmark.

The page favors single-thread way to much, which is not realistic for modern programs.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K/3502vs2579

[PCGuy_5960]

Solely for gaming: 6700K

Gaming, streaming and other stuff at the same time: 5820K

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

The page favors single-thread way to much, which is not realistic for modern programs.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K/3502vs2579

i think it favors quad core, but that's the reason why you look at the independant results, and not the "total number"

[Nena Trinity]

Just now, manikyath said:

i think it favors quad core, but that's the reason why you look at the independant results, and not the "total number"

Yes but at the top it still says the 6700K wins... (I trust passmark a bit more but that suck to...)

[manikyath]

Just now, Nena360 said:

Yes but at the top it still says the 6700K wins... (I trust passmark a bit more but that suck to...)

well, all passmark does is give you one number (which unfortunately, very often is flawed as well...)

 

i prefer userbenchmark because you can use it to refer to the differences, rather than just debating about a honestly not very meaningful number.

 

for example the FX8350 still wins over skylake i5's if you *can* utilize all 8 of those cores, but if you cant, the FX's downsides quickly start to weigh down it's honestly very few upsides.