Core i7 6700k vs core i7 5820k vs core i7 5960x in games

Core i7 6700K vs Core i7 5820K vs Core i7 5960X in games. The guys at Digital Foundry have got down to work to find out which is the fastest CPU when it comes to video games. The comparison has been made with the Core i7 6700K based on the Skylake microarchitecture and with four physical cores and the Core i7 5820K and i7 5960X based on the Haswell microarchitecture and consisting of six and eight cores respectively.

Core i7 6700K vs Core i7 5820K vs Core i7 5960X with GeForce GTX Titan X

Firstly, they have linked the three processors to a powerful GeForce GTX Titan X graphics card with the Nvidia GM200 Maxwell GPU, it is the card intended for more powerful home use that we can find in stores. The tests have been done with the games Assassin's Creed Unity, Crysis 3, Grand Theft Auto 5, Far Cry 4, Shadow of Mordor and The Witcher 3 and the average frames per second offered by the three processors in stock configuration and has been measured. overclocked next to the GTX Titan X.

The results are clear and speak for themselves, the Core i7 6700K is the fastest processor in games along with a top of the range graphics card. This processor offers superior performance to the Core i7 5820K and Core i7 5960X, we highlight that the latter costs almost three times more money.

Titan X OC (Average FPS)	i7 6700K / 3000MHz DDR4	i7 6700K 4.6GHz / 3000MHz DDR4	i7 5820K / 3200MHz DDR4	i7 5820K 4.6GHz / 3200MHz DDR4	i7 5960X / 3200MHz DDR4	i7 5960X 4.4GHz / 3200MHz DDR4
Assassin's Creed Unity, Ultra High, FXAA	88.4	89.3	84.2	84.6	84.4	84.6
Crysis 3, Very High, SMAA	124.4	124.7	119.4	120.8	124.4	125.5
Grand Theft Auto 5, Ultra, not MSAA	89.4	92.7	79.0	86.7	81.9	90.3
Far Cry 4, Ultra, SMAA	120.4	125.9	92.0	104.5	84.8	95.4
Shadow of Mordor, Ultra, FXAA	141.0	142.9	139.6	139.5	139.9	139.9
The Witcher 3, Ultra, HairWorks Off, Custom AA	105.8	106.4	103.4	103.4	103.5	103.8

Core i7 6700K vs Core i7 5820K vs Core i7 5960X with GeForce GTX 980Ti SLI

In a second part, the tests with the same processors and the same games have been repeated, but this time with two GeForce GTX 980Ti graphics cards in SLI configuration. Again we have the same result and the Core i7 6700K is shown as the fastest processor in games.

GTX 980 SLI (Media FPS)	i7 6700K / 3000MHz DDR4	i7 6700K 4.6GHz / 3000MHz DDR4	i7 5820K / 3200MHz DDR4	i7 5820K 4.6GHz / 3200MHz DDR4	i7 5960X / 3200MHz DDR4	i7 5960X 4.4GHz / 3200MHz DDR4
Assassin's Creed Unity, Ultra High, FXAA	107.7	108.9	104.3	104.9	104.1	104.2
Crysis 3, Very High, SMAA	117.6	124.6	119.7	122.6	120.7	123.0
Grand Theft Auto 5, Ultra, not MSAA	88.0	93.5	77.9	89.6	80.9	92.6
Far Cry 4, Ultra, SMAA	124.3	128.0	91.7	103.11	85.8	98.6
Shadow of Mordor, Ultra, FXAA	167.3	170.3	160.0	167.0	165.7	168.1
The Witcher 3, Ultra, HairWorks Off, Custom AA	113.2	116.5	108.2	110.3	108.4	109.2

conclusion

After the tests carried out by Digital Foundry it is clear that the Core i7 6700K is the best processor on the market to play. Thanks to its advanced Skylake architecture, it is able to offer a performance superior to that of two more expensive processors and with a greater number of cores such as the Core i7 5829K and the Core i7 5960X.

It is therefore demonstrated once again that when playing, the performance per core and per MHz is more important than the number of total cores. The Core i7 6700K has four physical cores and is capable of handling up to eight threads thanks to Intel's Hyperthreading technology. For its part, the Core i7 5820K and Core i7 5960X have six and eight cores respectively and can handle twelve and sixteen threads respectively.

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Source: eurogamer