We already had plenty of leaks ahead of the official launch of Intel's new Broadwell-E HEDT scheduled for Computex 2016 show in June and today some results of the flagship Core i7-6950X have been spotted online.

Based on a 14nm manufacturing process, the Core i7-6950X is the first consumer 10-core CPU. The Core i7-6950X runs at 3.0GHz base and 3.5GHz Turbo clock and will feature 25MB of L3 cache and should be priced at US $1569 when it becomes available.

Compared to the earlier Haswell-E flagship, the Core i7-5960X, the Core i7-6950X is significantly faster in both Cinebench and CPUMark benchmarks.

To be precise, the Core i7-6950X scores 19.74 points in Cinebench R11.5, while Core i7-5960X scores 13.94 points. Similar situation is in the Cinebench R15 benchmark where Core i7-6950X gets 1852 points, which is definitely higher than 1286 points for the Core i7-5960X.

The situation is similar in all other benchmarks although the maximum improvement can be seen in multi-threaded benchmarks, which is understandable considering that with Intel Hyper-Threading, the Core i7-6950X packs no less than 20 threads, significantly higher than 16 threads on the Core i7-5960X.

Intel's Broadwell-E will bring significant improvements for Intel's HEDT platform and with new high-end X99 motherboards coming at the same time, it should be a popular choice for enthusiasts.











Source: XFastest.com.