Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E Benchmarks Leaked

If you’ve been waiting for the Intel X99 platform refresh and Intel Broadwell-E processors to hit the market it doesn’t look like you have too much longer to wait. An Overclock.net forum user called ‘Silicon Lottery’ seems to have a sample already and has posted up a good number of benchmarks comparing the new Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E CPU to the soon to be ‘old’ Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E CPU.

The Intel Core i7-6950X processor is rumored to be a 10-core processor with 25MB of shared L3 cache. It has a 140W TDP and is compatiable with Intel X99 motherbaords (LGA 2011-3) that have the proper UEFI microcode support. In his first run of the Intel Core i7-6950X he got 151 points single-core and 1,904 multi-core in Cinebench R15. He also ran an Intel Core i7-5960X at the same speeds on the same ASUS RVE motherboard and got 160 points single-core and 1,592 in the multi-core test. Besides using an older architecture, the Intel Core i7-5960X has just 8-cores and 20MB of L3 cache, so we expected it perform slower in the multi-threaded benchmark test and have no answer as to why it was slower in the single-core test as both processors were said to be run at the same clock speeds.

Other performance numbers shown included the Intel XTU benchmark (2,354 points) and some AIDA64 benchmarks.

Silicon Lottery also overclocked the processor and was able to get it up to 4.5GHz with a little elbow grease. In Cinebench R15 he managed to pull off a couple scores of 2,300 in the multi-threaded benchmark test with the highest being 2,327. He noted that overclocking isn’t as good as Haswell-E, but also noted that was expected.

Not bad performance numbers and there are also other users with Intel Broadwell-E processors as we also spotted Intel Core i7-6850K performance numbers here. In Cinebench R15, the 6850K finished with a score of 1,311. The Intel Core i7-6850K is the more affordable 6-core Broadwell-E CPU clocked at 3.60GHz, but there are four Broadwell-E chips said to be coming out soon. Those four processors that are expected to be in the Broadwell-E line of processors include the Core i7-6800K, i7-6850K, i7-6900K and i7-6950X.