Is Haswell-E ready for prime time? at DVinfo.net

Harm Millaard · September 15th, 2014, 09:19 AM

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Jody Arnott · September 17th, 2014, 01:30 AM

I'd personally recommend the i7 5930k hexacore as a great upgrade for anyone using a dual or quad core CPU. $599 is a great price and those extra cores should really shine when it comes to encoding/rendering, etc.

However I'm not too sure about the i7 5960x 8 core. It's almost double the price of the 6 core, and you're sacrificing quite a bit of clock speed. I haven't seen any benchmarks yet but I doubt the performance increase over the 6 core would be worth the money .

September 15th, 2014, 09:19 AM	#1
Harm Millaard Trustee Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,832	Is Haswell-E ready for prime time? If you are interested to know the answer, look here: Tweakers Page - Is Haswell-E ready for prime time?

September 17th, 2014, 01:30 AM	#2
Jody Arnott Major Player Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand Posts: 747	Re: Is Haswell-E ready for prime time? I'd personally recommend the i7 5930k hexacore as a great upgrade for anyone using a dual or quad core CPU. $599 is a great price and those extra cores should really shine when it comes to encoding/rendering, etc. However I'm not too sure about the i7 5960x 8 core. It's almost double the price of the 6 core, and you're sacrificing quite a bit of clock speed. I haven't seen any benchmarks yet but I doubt the performance increase over the 6 core would be worth the money .