Intel Core i7 5930K

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The Core i7 5930K is part of the latest enthusiast-level of Intel's CPU family, Haswell-E. It is a six-core / 12 thread components featuring 15MB of L3 cache, 40 PCI Express lanes and runs at a base clock of 3.5GHz (boosting up to 3.7GHz). All of these chips are unlocked.

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By techPowerUp! on March 16, 2015 92

Intel released the Haswell-E line a few months ago, and it has been quite the talk in terms of the move to the newer and...

By AnandTech on August 29, 2014 85

The most promising member of the three CPUs launched today is the i7-5820K, as now the lowest end CPU for the extreme Intel platform has more cores than the highest member of the mainstream platform, the i7-4790K.

By BitTech on August 29, 2014 84

The leap from £460 to £760 when this article was published from the Core i7-5930K to the Core i7-5960X is a big one, and we'd much rather put the difference towards an awesome X99 motherboard or additional GPU or both. However, if you're a heavy renderer, or using other programs that regularly make upwards of 90 per cent use of 16 threads, then this is one seriously fast CPU that's quite simply crazy fast once overclocked.

By TomsHardware on August 29, 2014 80

This time around, Intel’s stack is organized differently. Stepping down to the -5930K means losing two cores right off the bat. There is no intermediate eight-core option. So, if the rest of the Haswell-E line-up consists of six-core CPUs, why not drop another notch to the Core i7-5820K? Some enthusiasts will thumb their noses at Intel for cutting 12 lanes of third-gen PCI Express from its 40-lane controller, but as differentiators go, that one’s pretty tame.

By Guru of 3D on August 29, 2014 80

The 5930K will be the tough one to sell, at 583 USD it is mereley a notch faster to the 5820K (and that one has an unlocked multiplier so you easily tweak that out). This biggest difference would be 40 PCIe lanes and we somehow doubt that warrants a 194 USD price difference.

By WCCFTech on August 29, 2014 96

Intel's first generation High-End Desktop platform, the Nehalem (X58 Tylersburg) was launch back in November 2008 which ushered in a new era of high performance computing for desktop users. In 2011, Intel released the second generation update based on...

By Ocaholic on December 18, 2015

DefaultFirst of all we're going to have a closer look at performance differences with standard clock speeds From our overall performance rating we see that the Core i75960X is on average 1609% quicker than the Core i75930K If you keep in mind, that the...

By uk.hardware.info on July 14, 2015

That the fastest processors are currently made by Intel is not really a secret, but what is the best choice when you want to spend up to £ 50, £100 or £150? To answer that question we conducted a megatest of 57 current AMD and Intel CPUs. From two...

By Ocaholic on April 15, 2015

When Intel released their new Haswell-E CPUs, we decided to rework our CPU gaming performance articles. Meanwhile we're testing different resolutions and there are FullHD, 1440p as well as UHD on our list. This way you get a more detailed understanding...

By Ocaholic on March 19, 2015

In this article we're going to investigate gaming performance differences regarding Intel's recent HEDT processors. Therefore we're going to test the Intel Core i7-5820K, the i7-5930K as well as the 5960X with our set of recent games. In the end we'll be...

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By HardwareHeaven on February 03, 2015

As we noted at the start of this review, one of the other CPUs in the same family as todays i7-5930K is the fastest consumer CPU around so it should come as no surprise that this product is very strong. What do we lose in choosing this model over that?...

By Ocaholic on January 07, 2015

There is a variety of customer groups, which demand as much power as possible from their computers in order to accelerate processes in order to become more efficient and in the end increase revenue or add additional value to their projects. Especially in...

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