i7-6850K vs i7-6700K

[GETxHIPFIREDx]

so i am building a new pc and i have the choice between these two chips.... im not familiar with 2011v2 socket type or really much of anything about the i7-6850K.

id plan on paring it with a 980 if that matters

 

big questions i have.

why is i7-6850K broadwell, but newer?

i7-6850K seems to have a lower clock speed but it has better benchmarking. Why?

For gaming and lite editing what chip would you go with if they where the same price?

Is being broadwell a bad thing over skylake.

 

thanks all

[3 Lions]

The i7 6700K will do just fine for what you want. 

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, GETxHIPFIREDx said:

so i am building a new pc and i have the choice between these two chips.... im not familiar with 2011v2 socket type or really much of anything about the i7-6850K.

id plan on paring it with a 980 if that matters

 

big questions i have.

why is i7-6850K broadwell, but newer?

i7-6850K seems to have a lower clock speed but it has better benchmarking. Why?

For gaming and lite editing what chip would you go with if they where the same price?

Is being broadwell a bad thing over skylake.

 

thanks all

OK, the 2011v3 socket type is a larger socket meant for workstation-tier i7s and Xeons

 

the i7 6850k is Broadwell-E, not Broadwell, just like the 5820k is Haswell-E, not haswell. the actual chip has nothing to do with broadwell. 

 

For what you need, you do not need a $500 CPU, get the 6700k. 

[The_Denks]

It is broadwell because it is running on the X99 chipset.

[williamthemagnificent]

i7 6700k will have higher per core performance so will be better for gaming

[Stardar1]

3 minutes ago, GETxHIPFIREDx said:

so i am building a new pc and i have the choice between these two chips.... im not familiar with 2011v2 socket type or really much of anything about the i7-6850K.

id plan on paring it with a 980 if that matters

 

big questions i have.

why is i7-6850K broadwell, but newer?

i7-6850K seems to have a lower clock speed but it has better benchmarking. Why?

For gaming and lite editing what chip would you go with if they where the same price?

Is being broadwell a bad thing over skylake.

 

thanks all

Also, the 6850k is a 6 core, just because it has a lower clock speed doesnt mean it will perform worse. 

 

Also, if something is broadwell or haswell or skylake, it shouldn't affect your decision, you should look at price, performance and features. 

[GETxHIPFIREDx]

Just now, Stardar1 said:

OK, the 2011v3 socket type is a larger socket meant for workstation-tier i7s and Xeons

 

the i7 6850k is Broadwell-E, not Broadwell, just like the 5820k is Haswell-E, not haswell. the actual chip has nothing to do with broadwell. 

 

For what you need, you do not need a $500 CPU, get the 6700k. 

id be buying from a friend. i would be paying the same for both cards. would there be a downside to the i7-6850K

[Matias_Chambers]

Do you already have a 4770? It's not worth upgrading to any of them if you are just gaming? 

[Stardar1]

Just now, GETxHIPFIREDx said:

id be buying from a friend. i would be paying the same for both cards. would there be a downside to the i7-6850K

The 6700k would be better for gaming, and has much cheaper motherboards. 

[Stardar1]

2 minutes ago, UberGamerKing said:

It is broadwell because it is running on the X99 chipset.

Broadwell runs on the LGA 1150 socket and Z97, Broadwell-E is a different chipset entirely. 

[Sakkura]

3 minutes ago, GETxHIPFIREDx said:

big questions i have.

why is i7-6850K broadwell, but newer?

i7-6850K seems to have a lower clock speed but it has better benchmarking. Why?

For gaming and lite editing what chip would you go with if they where the same price?

Is being broadwell a bad thing over skylake.

1. Because first Intel releases a smaller chip with fewer cores, because that's easier to manufacture. Then they later release a larger version of the same architecture, just with more cores etc.

2. Because it has more cores.

3. 6700K. The 6850K would be faster for heavier video editing etc.

4. Broadwell is an older and slightly slower architecture (per core). But it's only a small difference. The extra cores on the 6850K makes a bigger difference - once you are actually using that many cores in the first place. Games generally don't.

[ThinkWithPortals]

6 minutes ago, GETxHIPFIREDx said:

why is i7-6850K broadwell, but newer?

i7-6850K seems to have a lower clock speed but it has better benchmarking. Why?

For gaming and lite editing what chip would you go with if they where the same price?

Is being broadwell a bad thing over skylake.

1: It's Broadwell-E, which is the X99 variant of Broadwell.

2: More cores, more threads, more cache.

3: If they were the same price, 6850K, obviously. But the 6700K is cheaper (almost all of the time), so if the 6700K is cheaper get that.

4: Not really.

[GETxHIPFIREDx]

4 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

Do you already have a 4770? It's not worth upgrading to any of them if you are just gaming? 

i will not be upgrading per say,but im just building a new pc and not using anything from the old build

 

[GETxHIPFIREDx]

thanks for all the info i think ive mad my mind up 

[Matias_Chambers]

53 minutes ago, GETxHIPFIREDx said:

i will not be upgrading per say,but im just building a new pc and not using anything from the old build

 

What will you be using it for? If just gaming go for the 6700K. If you are doing stuff like video editing/rendering 3D, modeling/rendering or other stuff like that then go with the 6800K. The 6850K is not worth it unless you are running an insane amount of PCI devices.