Intel Core i7-6950X (Broadwell-E) Review

Written by Antony Leather

May 31, 2016 | 07:03

Tags: #broadwell-e #broadwell-e-review #haswell-e #lga2011-v3 #x99 #x99-review

Companies: #intel

Terragen 3

Website: Terragen 3

Planetside Software’s Terragen 3 is a highly realistic landscape generator used to create background images in films and games such as Star Trek: Nemesis, Stealth and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Our script renders a single frame of a snowy mountain scene at 640 x 480 on all the available CPU execution units.

Intel Core i7-6950X (Broadwell-E) Review Intel Core i7-6950X Review - Terragen 3 and Cinebench R15

Terragen 3

Snowy scene render time

  • Intel Core i7-6950X (3GHz/4.4GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-5960X (3GHz/4.45GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-6700K (4GHz/4.8GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-4930K (3.4GHz/4.5GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-3960X (3.3GHz/4.7GHz)
    • 248
    • 236
    • 316
    • 256
    • 370
    • 332
    • 396
    • 329
    • 398
    • 313
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Seconds, lower is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Cinebench R15 64-bit

Website: www.maxon.net

Cinebench uses Maxon's Cinema 4D engine to render a photo-realistic scene of some shiny balls and weird things (we miss the motorbike). The scene is highly complex, with reflections, ambient occlusion and procedural shaders so it gives a CPU a tough workout.

As Cinema 4D is a real-world application - used on films such as Spider-Man and Star Wars - Cinebench can be viewed as a real-world benchmark.

Intel Core i7-6950X (Broadwell-E) Review Intel Core i7-6950X Review - Terragen 3 and Cinebench R15

Cinebench R15

64-bit, CPU test

  • Intel Core i7-6950X (3GHz/4.4GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-5960X (3GHz/4.45GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-5930K (3.5GHz/4.55GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-5820K (3.3GHz/4.3GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-4930K (3.4GHz/4.5GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-3960X (3.3GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-6700K (4GHz/4.8GHz)
    • 2083.00
    • 2222.00
    • 1393.00
    • 1747.00
    • 1113.00
    • 1344.00
    • 1086.00
    • 1259.00
    • 1074.00
    • 1225.00
    • 1101.00
    • 952.00
    • 904.00
    • 1007.00
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Score, higher is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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