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3930k vs 4960x

moonbogg

moonbogg

Lifer
So, I tested my 3930k against a friends new 4960x in the new cinebench. Both chips were at 4.5ghz for an even comparison. Mine got 1139 and his got 1150. I felt pretty good about that. lolz thought I'd share.
 
I was at least hoping that they might improve overclocking but they didn't. End result is actually a trend now, Intel isn't delivering much in the way of extra performance with each release.
 
Very pleased with my 3930k. Waiting for the Hydro Copper EVGA Waterblock and back plate for my 780 Classified.
 
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Extreme editions are a waste.

Does it at least achieve a higher maximum clock? Seems kind of pointless running them at the same speed to make things "fair."
 
BrightCandle said:
I was at least hoping that they might improve overclocking but they didn't. End result is actually a trend now, Intel isn't delivering much in the way of extra performance with each release.
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Incremental improvements will probably be the trend as Intel focuses in mainly improving in areas like mobile trying to get into the tablet market for Android, and improve battery life on the existing wintel hybrids. AMD is focusing on diversifying with ARM, and focusing more on APU's taking advantage of Mantle and HUMA for the future which does nothing for us in the now, and who knows about the future of it. While they release stuff like the FX 9590 which really does nothing for me. As someone with an FX 8350 I can say it gets the job done for me at the price I paid. Which is much lower than retail/new. I'd rather have a 2k/3k/4k intel chip since the one game I plays Intel dominates big time in, and most distributed computing projects favor Intel. A few things AMD performs strong in/comparable to Intel in completed task times but they rely heavy on NumberFields/Integer vs floating point. I miss the old days when the x86 PC market had three players or even two that competed. Longterm it looks like we may just have Intel and be relegated to shelling out premium prices for small gains for being in a niche market.
 
moonbogg said:
So, I tested my 3930k against a friends new 4960x in the new cinebench. Both chips were at 4.5ghz for an even comparison. Mine got 1139 and his got 1150. I felt pretty good about that. lolz thought I'd share.
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moonbogg, what mb are you using in your 3930k?
 
3930K has been a beast. Lasted three years with no worthwhile upgrades by the time we get our octocore HW-E end of this year.

Not selling mine! Too beast of a platform like X58 was. Going to move it into my file server in the basement.
 
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