OTOH, it performs nearly 10% *worse* in games than the hex core HEDT chip, 30% worse than a 6700k, and no better than an i5. If one accepts the data from this review, I think the power consumption looks excellent, the productivity benchmarks are pretty good (in line with what I expected), performance per watt in productivity tasks is very good, while I dont really understand how anyone can look at the gaming benchmarks and think they are good news. Granted, the clockspeeds are low, but the hex core intel has at least 20% more clockspeed headroom as well.