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3 hours ago, hareshparmar_arch said:

i tend to use 1080 sli ...or waiting on 1080 Ti ...my only concern is CPU ...i m an architect ...i m betting heavy money on this build...its gonna be my only built atleast for next few years...so i desperately need to get it RIght somehow....

I would say go for the 6950X. The xeon downclocks when most cores are loaded, so it's probably realistically closer to 2.2-2.6GHz (Only turboing to 3.3Ghz if 1-4 cores are loaded). I have a Xeon E5-2695V3, 14 core 28 thread at 2.2GHz in my home NAS, and for games that use single cores, it's quite bad. It chokes really hard when it comes to heavy gaming because the game would only use one core at 2.2GHz. However, it eats my 2500K alive at rendering, even beating out my coustin's 5820K overclocked (4.4GHz...could go more, but the AIO cooler could not handle the heat). But the 2500K (OC to 4.6GHz in my PC) is a much better CPU to game on.

 

Revit relies more on CPU power. GPU is mostly for shading / preview.

 

Also, make sure you have a really good CPU cooler.

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i am building a workstation for fastest renderings  possible (revit,sketchup,3dsmax,lumion)...but i also want 4k gaming as smooth as possible..

i7 6950x or xeon 2680 v4???

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Do you need 14 cores and 28 threads? Also the single core performance on the i7 is better. Depends on what you're doing.

I would go with the i7 6950X because that would definitely be better for the gaming side of things. However when it comes to gaming the i7 6700K is the best in benchmarks because of the amazing single core performance.

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i7 over Xeon for gaming. 2.4/3.3 Ghz is really going to hurt you in gaming and any application that doesn't use all 14 cores. IMO you're better off with the 6950x for both applications.

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The area is a bit tricky with these CPUs since you seek something that works for both heavy multithreaded loads ánd gaming performance which benefits more from fewer, faster cores like the people above me pretty much already stated. The i7 6950X is definitely the better choice then except for the fact that I'm furiously jealous of you, you lucky s.o.a.b. :dry:

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15 minutes ago, hareshparmar_arch said:

i am building a workstation for fastest renderings  possible (revit,sketchup,3dsmax,lumion)...but i also want 4k gaming as smooth as possible..

i7 6950x or xeon 2680 v4???

You should also remember that most of the frame rendering for 4K is done on your GPU, not CPU.

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27 minutes ago, Joe_MacDougall said:

Do you need 14 cores and 28 threads? Also the single core performance on the i7 is better. Depends on what you're doing.

I would go with the i7 6950X because that would definitely be better for the gaming side of things. However when it comes to gaming the i7 6700K is the best in benchmarks because of the amazing single core performance.

ya but that would make my renderings worst...

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Just now, hareshparmar_arch said:

ya but that would make my renderings worst...

I think 20 threads is enough plus you'll get way better gaming performance from the i7 6950X.

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26 minutes ago, Mina Darsh said:

The area is a bit tricky with these CPUs since you seek something that works for both heavy multithreaded loads ánd gaming performance which benefits more from fewer, faster cores like the people above me pretty much already stated. The i7 6950X is definitely the better choice then except for the fact that I'm furiously jealous of you, you lucky s.o.a.b. :dry:

i tend to use 1080 sli ...or waiting on 1080 Ti ...my only concern is CPU ...i m an architect ...i m betting heavy money on this build...its gonna be my only built atleast for next few years...so i desperately need to get it RIght somehow....

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25 minutes ago, YoFavRussian said:

You should also remember that most of the frame rendering for 4K is done on your GPU, not CPU.

didnt knew that...thanks...so 6950x ??....dont mind i lack computer knowledge...

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36 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

4K Gaming is dependent on the video card, not the processor. At least if you're already using high-end processors.

its my first built and will remain my first built atleast for few years....so gotta get this right...i need fastest rendering but also want 4k gaming

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38 minutes ago, pyrojoe34 said:

i7 over Xeon for gaming. 2.4/3.3 Ghz is really going to hurt you in gaming and any application that doesn't use all 14 cores. IMO you're better off with the 6950x for both applications.

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actually it shouldn't be much of an issue . sure single thread performance isn't great ( around a bit more than that of an i5 6400 ) , but at 4k so much load is put on the gpu that you  really won't see much of a difference as the cpu won't be loaded much . At 1080p however ...

 

I would still suggest the 6950x because of the higher clocks . The xeon has 40% more cores , but once overclocked the i7 can easily get 70%+ performance boost over the xeon in single thread performance and should pull ahead because of this.

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3 hours ago, hareshparmar_arch said:

i tend to use 1080 sli ...or waiting on 1080 Ti ...my only concern is CPU ...i m an architect ...i m betting heavy money on this build...its gonna be my only built atleast for next few years...so i desperately need to get it RIght somehow....

I would say go for the 6950X. The xeon downclocks when most cores are loaded, so it's probably realistically closer to 2.2-2.6GHz (Only turboing to 3.3Ghz if 1-4 cores are loaded). I have a Xeon E5-2695V3, 14 core 28 thread at 2.2GHz in my home NAS, and for games that use single cores, it's quite bad. It chokes really hard when it comes to heavy gaming because the game would only use one core at 2.2GHz. However, it eats my 2500K alive at rendering, even beating out my coustin's 5820K overclocked (4.4GHz...could go more, but the AIO cooler could not handle the heat). But the 2500K (OC to 4.6GHz in my PC) is a much better CPU to game on.

 

Revit relies more on CPU power. GPU is mostly for shading / preview.

 

Also, make sure you have a really good CPU cooler.

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