Intel Core i7-6950X processor 3 GHz 25 MB Smart Cache Box

Intel Core i7-6950X processor 3 GHz 25 MB Smart Cache Box

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Brand : Intel
Product family : Core
Product series : Extreme Edition
Product name : i7-6950X
Product code : BX80671I76950X
GTIN (EAN/UPC) : 5032037087551
Category : Processors
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Long product name Intel Core i7-6950X processor 3 GHz 25 MB Smart Cache Box :
Intel® Core™ i7-6950X Processor Extreme Edition
(25M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz)
Short summary description Intel Core i7-6950X processor 3 GHz 25 MB Smart Cache Box :
Intel Core i7-6950X, Intel® Core™ i7 X-series Extreme Edition, LGA 2011-v3, 14 nm, Intel, i7-6950X, 3 GHz
Long summary description Intel Core i7-6950X processor 3 GHz 25 MB Smart Cache Box :
Intel Core i7-6950X. Processor family: Intel® Core™ i7 X-series Extreme Edition, Processor socket: LGA 2011-v3, Processor lithography: 14 nm. Memory channels: Quad-channel, Maximum internal memory supported by processor: 128 GB, Memory types supported by processor: DDR4-SDRAM. Market segment: Desktop, Scalability: 1S, Export Control Classification Number (ECCN): 5A992C. Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 frequency: 4 GHz. Package width: 44 mm, Package depth: 116 mm, Package height: 101 mm

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Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:83

Uk has collected 180 expert reviews for Intel Core i7-6950X processor 3 GHz 25 MB Smart Cache Box and the average expert rating is 83 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Uk to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions.

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pcauthority.com.au

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:80

Extreme Edition processors have become a regular landmark in Intel's schedule over the years, providing enthusiasts with something to get their teeth into while waiting for the next-generation architecture. As its price suggests, this year's top-of-the-ra...

"Is it worth it? Only if you have a genuine need for all that power."...

crn.com.au

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Extreme Edition processors have become a regular landmark in Intel's schedule over the years, providing enthusiasts with something to get their teeth into while waiting for the next-generation architecture. As its price suggests, though, this year's top-o...

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eteknix.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Intel has been dominating the HEDT market for a considerable amount of time as prosumers' hefty multi-threaded workloads require additional cores which the mainstream platform cannot accommodate. The company's long-term strategy appears to revolve around...

AVX ratio offset balances performance demands, Compatible with existing 2011-v3 motherboards after a BIOS update, Extraordinary multi-threaded performance, Good stock temperatures, Memory writes much faster than i7-5960X, Rudimentary overclocking procedur...
Extreme performance comes at an extreme price, Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 is significantly cheaper, Neutral, Major thermal increase beyond 1.3V but expected given the 10-core configuration, “The Intel Core i7-6950X is capable of unbelievable multi-threaded per...
PricingAt the time of writing, Intel's latest flagship desktop processor retails for an eye-watering £1419.99 from eBuyer.com. Please note, this is the cheapest price I've seen for some time and it's been quite common for stores to charge near the £1500 m...

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thunderbaylive.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Do more cores make for a better processor? Let's find out if the Intel 6950X can justify its seemingly ridiculous US$1,700 pricetag…Massdrop link: Zotac link: Learn more about the GTX 1080 AMP Extreme at or buy on Amazon at Buy the Intel 6950X on Amazon:...

ocaholic.ch.english

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

There is a variety of customer groups in need of as much processing power as possible. Especially in the field of content creation, which includes editing pictures and videos or even rendering a complex scenery with beautiful effects, performance improvem...

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 i76950X is on average 1655 % quicker than the Core i75960XIf we start searching for the be...

overclockersclub.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

The story starts with you laying out some serious cash to step into one of Intel's Extreme Edition fully unlocked X-SKU processors and you just want more performance. Something akin to throwing a blower on a high performance sports car, because 550 natura...

Part first-person shooter, part survival horror, Metro: Last Light is the follow-up to the extremely popular game Metro 2033 . Developed by 4A games and published by Deep Silver, this game uses the 4A game engine. In this game, set a year after the missil...

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tweaktown.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:91

Broadwell-E has landed. Intel has finally launched its first consumer 10-core 20-thread microprocessor, aimed at content creators and those who really need that extra horsepower two extra cores can provide. Broadwell-E isn't just a core addition; it also...

The 6950X is pretty much what we expected. Broadwell only really launched in the consumer arena as a quad-core CPU loaded with Iris Pro graphics, and cost an arm and a leg. The 6950X is pretty much the 5775C of the X99 platform - its cost is very high, b...

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expertreviews.co.uk

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:60

As with 2014’s Haswell-E family, Broadwell-E – including this, the Core i7-6950X – represents a rejigging of an existing architecture aimed at those who regularly use demanding media and design software, the kind that benefits most from a wealth of multip...

Monstrously expensive and outstandingly powerful, this Broadwell-E CPU is as exclusive as they come...

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HEXUS.net

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Intel CPU launches are something of an anachronism. The desktop and laptop CPUs arrive with the latest architecture while the server and workstation markets often receive older microarchitectures at a later date. We know this because sixth-generation Skyl...

First 10-core consumer chip, Incredible performance, Impressive energy consumption, Drop-in upgrade to 5960X...
First 10core consumer chip, Incredible performance, Impressive energy consumption, Dropin upgrade to 5960X, Games don't benefit, How much?, Intel Core i76950X, HEXUS.where2buy, Intel Core i76950X (14nm Broadwell), £1399.49, Free shipping for HEXUS members...
Intel holds a commanding performance and market-share lead in virtually all CPU segments. Nowhere is this hegemony more keenly felt than in the high-end desktop (HEDT) space, where wave after wave of Core i7 processors' main goal is to simply improve upon...

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kitguru.net

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:90

The latest architecture from Intel, “Skylake” has been with us since August 2015 on the mainstream platform but HEDT users have had to “make do” with Haswell-E since August 2014. Today Intel reduces the architectural gap back to 1 generation with Broadwe...

Classleading multithreaded performance, Refreshed motherboards available, Improved power consumption over previousgen...
Singlethreaded performance cannot match Skylake, Some applications aren't optimised for high core counts...
Initial performance and overclocking results from the Broadwell i7 5775C and i5 5675C processors back in 2015 suggested the Broadwell architecture wouldn't clock as high as Haswell equivalents and this has mostly panned out to be accurate with Intel's Bro...

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alphr.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:60

Intel's Extreme Edition, or “E” edition, processors have become a regular landmark in the CPU manufacturer's schedule over the years, providing overclockers and enthusiasts with something to get their teeth into while waiting for the next-generation archi...

So it's quick, then. The question is, do you really need all of those extra cores? If it's the very best performance that you want, and damn the cost, the answer has to be yes.Broadwell-E, at least in the form of the ten-core Core i7-6950X I've looked at...

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goodgearguide.com.au

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Monstrous. Brawny. Or in the parlance of our times: OP for "overpowered." All are apt terms for Intel's new 10-core Core i7-6950X, a muscular CPU so over-the-top in power, that you'd have to be crazy to need one.But Intel's Extreme Edition CPUs have never...

First, I'll sum up the performance aspects of the 10-core Broadwell-E by saying, damn, it's a freaking monster. In multi-threaded tasks it easily thrashes the 8-core Haswell-E and combined with per core overclocking and Turbo Boost Max 3.0, it can hang wi...

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Bit-Tech.net

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Click to enlargeToday marks somewhat of a milestone in desktop PC performance. 2016 sees the introduction of the first desktop 10core CPU, and it comes in the form of the Core i76950X. It's taken a decade to get here since the first desktop dualcore CP...

If you're clued up about the current state of affairs as you leave the realms of quad-core CPUs then you'll no doubt realise that in some ways there are diminishing returns as you add more cores. In fact, some performance benchmarks get slower as the effe...

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vortez.net

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Intel's High End Desktop (HEDT platform has long been the last bastion of the enthusiast in Intel's lineup Dominating performance, flexible overclocking, and more cores than you can shake a stick at have drawn a stark contrast between it and mainstrea...

Extreme Performance, Mature Motherboard Platform, DDR4 is now a mainstream memory standard, Simple, flexible overclocking via BCLK and/or Multiplier, Will reward enthusiast overclockers, Flagship model pushes the boundaries of the High End Desktop capabil...
Nonflagship models are only small improvements over HaswellE, More expensive than HaswellE at launch, >$1500 Flagship breaks new ground in consumer CPU pricing.

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overclockersclub.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Those who own the pinnacle of Intel's product stack at the time of release tend to keep going to the well when the next generation is introduced. Case in point is many X58 users stuck it out until X79 came around and migrated to X99 as the next upgrade pa...

Performance, Overclocking, Megatasking, Cool running, 10core madness...
Pricing...
When Intel stepped up to the plate with an 8-core Extreme Edition processor, the thought of even more cores was far off the radar, as the Core i7 5960X was the highest performing chip on the market bar none. As I saw with the Core i7 5960X, when you can b...

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hardwarecanucks.com

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2019-11-14 08:27:35

Average rating:0

Im going to start this article off with a simple number: five. Not only is that the number of months it has taken AMD to effectively turn the x86 processor world on its ear, but thats also the number of distinct model families that theyve introduced ov...

Looking back at how things played out over the course of this review, I have no doubt it will be one of the most hotly debated articles that Ive written in the last few months, maybe even the last year. Theres no denying that the Zen architecture has pr...

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pcgamer.com

Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:85

Let's get this out of the way: Most of us can't even begin to justify purchasing a Core i7-6950X. The official MSRP is $1,723 in lots of 1,000, for the boxed chip, but even Amazon's reduced price of $1,650 puts the cost of entry at more than a complete hi...

Ten cores, 'nuff said, Very overclockable...
Costs as much as a complete highend PC, What happened to the $1,000 Extreme Edition...
The price is a bitter pill to swallow, but for the right type of user, the performance and features are dream worthy...

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hardwaresecrets.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Intel just launched its new family of X99 high-end CPUs, using LGA2011-v3 socket. Those new processors are codenamed “Broadwell-E” and the most high-end model on this platform is the Core i7-6950X, which has 10 physical cores (20 threads thanks to the Hy...

Due to its specifications, the Core i7-6950X taken from the Core i7-5960X the title of most high-end desktop CPU available, mostly because of the 20 threads. Its price also reinforces this title. By the way, it is interesting to notice that, by now, Intel...

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realhardwarereviews.com

Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:70

With the recent release of Intel's latest and greatest – the ten core i7 6950X – enthusiasts have an entirely new generation of enthusiast grade processors to play with. Of course with an asking price that (almost) requires its own mortgage we doubt most...

With its ten cores to feed the 6950X is a mild mannered Dr. Jekyll at stock, but can turn in an instant to Mister Hyde when overclocked. As you can see it will need a lot more than value cooling to tame this savage beast!3.5i7 6950XYour RatingUser Rating:...

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techspot.com

Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:75

You'd be forgiven for not noticing, but this time last year Intel debuted its 5th-generation Core architecture codenamed Broadwell. On the desktop, Broadwell kept the LGA1150 socket used by Haswell before it, with only two processors ever released: the Co...

Ridiculously high pricing at over $1,700 essentially the same cost as the 14core Xeon E52680 v4.
Before getting on with the conclusion I would just like to point out that we couldn't include any overclocking tests or info on the new Turbo Boost Max 3.0 feature. The reason for this is simple: we don't have a motherboard that supports the new Turbo Boo...

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hothardware.com

Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:80

It was all the way back in August of 2014 that Intel officially launched its Haswell-E based Core i7 series processors and its companion X99 chipset. At the time of its release, Haswell-E's top of the line, 8-core Core i7-5960X was easily the most powerfu...

Killer Multi-Thread Performance, Huge Cache, Turbo Boost Max 3.0...
Super Pricey, Relatively Low Clocks, Lower Single Thread Perf In Some Tests...
Intel Core i7 Extreme Processor - Find It At AmazonThe Core i7-6950X is not the only Broadwell-E based processor Intel has coming down the pipeline. There are four new processors due to arrive soon, including 6, 8, and 10 core options, at wildly different...

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pcper.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Today Intel is launching Broadwell-E, the follow up to Haswell-E, and things look very much the same as they did before. There are definitely a couple of changes worth noting and discussing, including the move to a 10-core processor option as well as Turb...

First, let's talk about the positive side of the Core i7-6950X. It is clearly, and without a shred of doubt, the fastest consumer processor on the market. With the inclusion of Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, Intel was able to improve single-threaded perf...

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overclock3d.net

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

It's always slightly curious when the motherboards for a processor get released before the actual main event, but having recently taken a look at the MSI X99A Gaming Carbon and the ASUS X99 Strix Gaming Edition, it's finally time to get our dirty mitts on...

If ever a conclusion nearly wrote itself, this one is it.The new Intel Broadwell-E processors follow in a long line of premium Intel offerings by coming in at an eye-watering price only matched by the jaw-dropping performance. This is hardly the range of...

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overclockers.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Today we are going to get a chance to review Intel”s next processor in their High-End Desktop (HEDT) platform. The king of the consumer hill used to be the mighty i7-5960X our friend Dino reviewed back in August of 2014 . That “extreme” CPU shook up the l...

There you have it folks, Intel's 10 core, 20 thread, Mega-Tasking monstrosity of high-end chip. Overall we have seen improvements in both multi-thread applications/benchmarks, as well as improvements in single-threaded applications/benchmarks (though, a...

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reviewstudio.net

Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:90

There were a lot or rumors about the Intel Broadwell-E CPUs, but this is the independence day, when all the info became public and you can read the Intel Core i7-6950X review. It's the new flagship and the most awaited CPU as it brings 10 cores / 20 threa...

performance, power consumption, overclocking...
way to expensive...
Intel made another step forward with its X99 platform and launched the Broadwell-E CPU series. That consists of 4 SKUs: i7-6950X (10 cores), i7-6900K (8 cores), i7-6850K (6 cores) and i7-6800K (6 cores, only 28 PCI-E lanes).The new family should bring a n...

computershopper.com

Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:70

Since the early Pentium and Core 2 models , Intel's top-of-the line, consumer-focused Extreme Edition (or "X-Series") processors have always catered primarily to two distinct groups. The first: professional content creators for whom rendering time equals...

First consumer CPU to sport 10 cores, with Hyper-Threading for 20 concurrent processing threads, Most powerful consumer CPU available, Review sample overclocked well, Will work with most existing X99 Socket 2011 v3 motherboards (after a BIOS update)...
Hefty price premium over already-expensive eight-core alternatives, Comparatively low clock speed means much cheaper chips will outrun it on some mainstream tasks...
It's hard to push the value (or even sanity) argument for a chip this expensive unless your living relies on extremely demanding processing tasks. But Intel's 10-core, 20-thread "Broadwell-E" beast is flat-out impressive. It's the fastest consumer chip y...

pcmag.com

Updated:
2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:70

For anyone who wants to buy or build the most powerful consumer-oriented desktop computer possible, at present there's no question what its CPU must be: the new Intel Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition ($1,723). The first chip released in Intel's new top-of-th...

Insanely powerful, particularly with multithreaded applications...
Ridiculously expensive, Lower clock speed may reduce utility with single- or lightly threaded workloads...
Desktop processors don't get beefier—or more expensive—than the Intel Core i7-6950X. But not every user will find all its enhancements worth the money...

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legitreviews.com

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2017-01-07 02:09:40

Average rating:0

Intel Broadwell-E processors are finally here and sadly before I even started to type this review most of the details have been leaked out around the web this month and some have already made it up on eBay. It's getting harder to keep a secret these days...

The Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E CPU features 10-cores that absolutely thrash multi-core benchmarks. This processor is indeed a monster and after using this processor and seeing how fast it tears through tasks we are left impressed. Even the boring si...

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legitreviews.com

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2019-11-14 08:27:35

Average rating:0

Today we'll be looking at the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-core and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 12-core processors. These processors are the the tip of the spear for AMD and are aimed at the high-end desktop market. This completes the AMD Ryzen proces...

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and Threadripper 1920X are very impressive processors that did extremely well in content creation benchmarks that take advantage of having a 16-core, 32-thread processor in the system. The good news is a good number of app...

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