So just after the release of Broadwell-E Extreme Edition i7 CPUs, it occurred to me that Intel is giving the 8 Core 16 Thread i7 6900k for 1000 bucks and the 10 Core 6950X for 1700. Now there is a Broadwell Xeon E5 2640 v4 with 10 Core 20 Threads for about the same price. Both go into the LGA 2011 v3 socket. My priorities are gaming and rendering with the former having a marginally higher priority.
While the Xeon goes from 2.4 to 3.4 GHz, it's still clocked lesser than the i7. My question here is how much of a difference is that reduced clock speed going to make to gaming given that the single core performance will be a bit less on the Xeon.
Also, how does Turbo exactly work on the Xeon (like how many cores get Turbo'd and at what load etc.)?
Finally, does the Xeon support DDR4 2400 MHz or is it that higher clocked RAM will be reduced to 2133 MHz.
If you had the patience to read through this, then please answer...:3
While the Xeon goes from 2.4 to 3.4 GHz, it's still clocked lesser than the i7. My question here is how much of a difference is that reduced clock speed going to make to gaming given that the single core performance will be a bit less on the Xeon.
Also, how does Turbo exactly work on the Xeon (like how many cores get Turbo'd and at what load etc.)?
Finally, does the Xeon support DDR4 2400 MHz or is it that higher clocked RAM will be reduced to 2133 MHz.
If you had the patience to read through this, then please answer...:3
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