Intel Core i7 6950X Broadwell-E (10-core) CPU Review

AIDA64

AIDA64 implements a set of 64-bit benchmarks to measure how fast the computer performs various data processing tasks and mathematical calculations. Multi-threaded memory and cache benchmarks are available to analyze system RAM bandwidth and latency.

The i7 6950X offers small generational improvements in memory read and copy, and those results could be boosted further by increasing the CPU's Cache frequency as post-Haswell architectures are particularly responsive to this type of tuning. An area that showed impressive performance growth was memory write, which jumped a whopping 45 per cent over the i7 5960X.

Memory latency was roughly on par with Haswell-E and is a fair bit slower than mainstream parts as more memory channels have to be addressed, four instead of two.

SiSoft Sandra 2016

Sandra is a multi-function software utility produced by UK company SiSoftware which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers and networks.

SiSoft's memory bandwidth test shows a much narrower gap between Haswell-E and Broadwell-E, though this is hardly unexpected given that both systems are quad-channel by design and are being benchmarked with the same memory kit.

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