Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E Launches in 2nd Quarter 2016
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heffeque
Unless it's used with a highly paralleled program, I don't see the i7-6950X running faster than the i7-6800K.
Ryu5uzaku
I am tad interested in 6950X but how much faster will it be then my processor in single threaded tasks I know in something that uses several threads it would trash this one to bits. Disappointed by kaby lake having max 4 cores.
southamptonfc
I keep thinking it's nearly time to upgrade to a 6 core but that time never seems to arrive.
Any ideas how long X99 will last? Will it support Skylake-E?
fantaskarsef
Afaik Skylake-E will get another chipset, something like 199 or similar. Broadwell-E should work with a bios update iirc.
fantaskarsef
You want to spin the wheel again, enter the lottery? 😀
xIcarus
They probably mean something like 'we don't know the exact date, but somewhere in q2 2016'.
fantaskarsef
I wouldn't say that X99 or Broadwell-E is at the end of it's cycle. Currently there's nothing better out than X99 in regards to the enthusiast platform. Skylake-E (and a new platform) won't be around until 2017. So there's probably still 18 months or more left 😉
Sukovsky
Funny, that a gamer still doesn't need more than a Sandy Bridge quad, which is now a 5 year old cpu.
Reddoguk
I thought there was a new chip set coming out soon 200 series?
xIcarus
Eeh, so and so. Skylake i5s really help in cpu bound games. MMO and RTS games tend to be poorly optimized in general.
Actually it's not that they're necessarily poorly optimized. There's just too much stuff going on on the screen. SC2 saw almost no improvement when I upgraded from a 560 to a 970. The only improvement was where there were a crapton of cloaked units (transparent shading).
Meanwhile look at the old-gen MMOs like World of Warcraft and especially Lineage 2.. World of Warcraft has been improved but Lineage 2 is a purely single-threaded game. It's a mess, I've had about the same framerates on my Core 2.
But for recent AAA titles, I can confirm that unless you go SLI 980Ti a 2600k (2500k as well) is enough. And if you do want to SLI you can always overclock the living sh!t out of it.
Undying
Idk, Sandy and Ivy being still viable for such a high end GPU's is questionable. Like you said Skylake did bring some very nice ipc compared to last generations. My 2500k at 4.8Ghz can barely keep up with stock 6600k.
I hate to say it but upgrade is in order, soon.
southamptonfc
I was quite surprised at the performance improvements that I got going from a 2600k (4.6) to 4790k (4.7). I was forced to upgrade due to a broken mobo, otherwise I wouldn't have considered it.
-Tj-
If its anything like mainstream BW then be carefull, I mean keep your current as backup, by that I mean poor OC'er..
4 - 4.2GHz limits, unless lack of igpu raises that bar a bit..
Matt26LFC
Thats for Kabylake next year.
This is Broadwell-E, the replacement for Haswell-E on the X99 chipset.
xIcarus
You're right, I mean this is 5 years old tech we're talking about. I am incredibly surprised this CPU has managed to pull through for so long. Skylake is indeed tempting, I'll give you that.
But I won't be upgrading until maybe 2017. I want to see DX12 mature a bit and I'm not sure I can justify a whole new platform just yet. We're talking about around 40% more raw CPU performance (sandy -> skylake). It's nice but.. I expected more than twice that number. Not to mention that prices are crazy right now, especially in Europe with all the taxes. In Romania the 6700k comes in at around 470$, not 400$ like it should be. Maybe Zen can make Intel dance on coals for a bit so they'll bring their prices down.
LimitbreakOr
When built my 4000$ rig, I told my friends that the only thing I'll upgrade for the next 5 years will be storage and GPU. My friends told me "ya right", Now there's talk of something more powerful than my 5960x and im already thinking of upgrading! I will resist when the time comes!
fantaskarsef
Hehe don't give in! The dark side is tempting you! 😀
ChicagoDave
Anyone else notice the Skylake-S 4+4e replacing Broadwell on the same line? I'm assuming that means when Kaby Lake drops, Intel will also release an eDRAM Skylake chip?
