i7 5960x vs i9

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  1. Folken

    Folken Member

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    I have a i7 5960x and was thinking to upgrade to an i9 7940x or i9 7960x worth? Will I feel much difference in heavy work + gaming?

    i7 5960x for sale when will it cost right now?

    greetings
     
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    0 difference in gaming and you'll have to define what heavy work is.

    Probably not worth it.
     
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    Hi there

    if you do rendering or you can put all these cores to work in multi threaded applications then yes I would upgrade,have myself 5960X first one has been replaced by Intel as memory controller failed on my 5960x and OC on that chip has been poor 4.3GHz at 1.31v,now have Intel replacement and this will do 4.5GHz at 1.205-1.12v,didn't tried go beyond as is enough for me there

    Skylake X do have better IPC but IPC already has been better on Broadwell E CPU or if you want i7-6800k/6850k or 6900k than on Haswell E HDET chips

    For gaming not sure if I would upgrade to Skylake X right now

    And price depends where are you on Earth located,if you in Europe then you should be able to sell yours for £400-£500 easily and in US this again depends on more factors but 400USD should be OK price,personally I wouldn't buy CPU without the box as these 5960x have weakest memory controller from entire Intel HDET lineup and without the box trying RMA chip is bit of pain but yes is possible there

    Hope this helps

    Thanks,Jura
     
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    And for an i7 8700k would it be worth it? I can make 4.5ghz easily with 1.33v with my i7 5960x.

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    You still haven’t clarified what heavy work is.
    8700k will be better for games not “heavy work”
     
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    Programming, handling of videos and some images, rendering, conversion and games included for relaxation
     
  7. DmitryKo

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    You'd need to run heavy content creation workloads to see any difference.


    If you're really into tasks like 3D rendering, video encoding, image processing, ZIP/RAR compression, and source code compilation, you might get some 30-50% more performance from 12-14 core i9-79xxX comparing to an earlier 8-core i7-5960X.

    In typical games and office applications, you might end up with a 10% improvement, but most likely you'd get no performance improvement at all.

    http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/core-i9-7900x-cpu-by-intel-review/5/
    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-7960x-cpu-skylake-x,5238-7.html
    https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Proce...and-1920X-Review/Media-Encoding-and-Rendering
    https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...-Performance-Core-i9-7940X-7960X-7980XE-1039/
    etc.

    http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-7960X-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5960X/m357952vs2580
    http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-7920X-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5960X/m278103vs2580


    OTOH, i7-8700K would offer no improvement for content creation workloads, and 20-30% improvement for gaming and office tasks.
    http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5960X/3937vs2580


    If you'd ask me, 30-50% performance improvement in few synthetic benchmarks is not really worth the hassle of going through a CPU upgrade. You won't really feel much difference in real-world performance, any perceptible improvement starts at 2-2.5x (100-150%) best case in benchmarks.

    Do not expect to get much value from your Core i7-5960X either, unless you're willing to sell a complete working system.

    I would consider a faster M.2/NVMe SSD drive, a professional top-end GPU card, or a large screen 4K HDR monitor instead.
     
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    imo the only things worth upgrading CPU is if you do rendering
    what u get from upgrading cpu more or less is extra CPU cores
    programing dont need cpu power

    basically for what u do, your CPU still sufficient imo
    except you get extra money to burn, why not
     
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