6700k vs 6800k or 5820k real world difference

John_399

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Jun 24, 2016
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I know there have been many posts about the intel i7-6700k vs 6800k or 5820k (aka quad vs 6 core).

I've been reading a lot about these 2 and I know that the 6700k will have better single core and single thread performance than both 6800k and 5820k and also will be able to reacht higher clock speeds.

Now ofcourse the multi core performance of the 6800k and 5820k are obviously better than the 6700k

However I wonder how much you notice the difference in single core performance in everydays usage. Do you really notice faster browsing etc. With the 6700k? And do you really notice any performance boost with the 6800k or 5820k over the 6700k while doing multitasks like gaming, recording, streaming, skyping at the same time (maybe even rendering too)?

I want to use my system mainly for gaming, recording gameplay, and editing the recorded gameplay. And I see people just copying other people while giving advice. All saying get the 6 core. While I think that the 6700k should do the job almost just of not just as good as it is a hign end cpu, which should be able to do more things at the same time when gaming...

Ppl on the internet make the 6700k sound like it can only do one thing at the time lol.

Anyways I was wondering what you guys think about these cpu's.

Basically all I want is:
- Best gaming performance
- Great multitasking
-futureproof
-editing

Also I've been seeing benchmark results where the 6800k outperforms the 6700k in multiple games. So I would think that the 6800k would be the best choice as it plays game equally if not better than the 6700k plus it multitasks better and handles multithreaded tasks better. At the cost of lower achievable clockspeed and lower single thread tasks and ipc. Now i'm wondering will you notice this at all in real world?

Gpu gtx 1080
 
Solution
For cpu performance info in games you could seek for the fly-simulator crowd.
They need the best cpu for their games because cpu performance matters a lot for them.
For the rest of us a strong enough cpu is all we need: almost all skylake i5 are about the same really.
So what a x-plane player wants today? A 6700K@4.8ghz i think.
For light desktop use, a Core i3 generally feels the same as a monster 8-core CPU.

I notice that in gaming, the games that tend to run the slowest are usually single-thread bottlenecked. Battlefield will run great on any modern Intel CPU, making the framerate differences academic, but Guild Wars runs noticeably less poorly on a high clocked Skylake CPU than on a lower clocked Haswell.
 
For cpu performance info in games you could seek for the fly-simulator crowd.
They need the best cpu for their games because cpu performance matters a lot for them.
For the rest of us a strong enough cpu is all we need: almost all skylake i5 are about the same really.
So what a x-plane player wants today? A 6700K@4.8ghz i think.
 
Solution

scuzzycard

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All of these CPU's are monster-overkill for everyday tasks, so you won't notice a difference in them. I think too much attention is paid to the difference in single-threaded performance. Sure, the 6700K has the highest stock clock, but the 5820K is a very mature design and tends to be the strongest overclocker out of the three, with the 6800K right behind it. This easily eats up Broadwell's 3% improvement over Haswell, and Skylake's 5% improvement over Broadwell. If we agree that the single-threaded performance difference is basically a non-issue, all we are left with is 6 versus 4. I'd be willing to wager that 5 years from now, you'd be happy to have 6 cores instead of 4. :)