Why is i5 6600K better than Intel Core i7 6700K per CPUBOSS?

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burg412

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I was comparing Intel procs for my buuild and gazed upon this comparison.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6600K

it basicall says that the i5 6600k better than the i7 6700K. can someone enlighten me?
there is big difference with the price so i really wanna know which is better?

additionally, which proc is best suitable for rending vray, is the i7 overkill since vray uses gpu?
Im getting an rx480 8gb

thanks



 
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Ecky

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Because CPU Boss is a terrible website. It would tell you that dual Pentium Pros from 1996 are better than one i7 6700K from 2016 because 2>1.

EDIT: I'm unsure about vray. Depending on how much CPU it uses (nothing is exclusively GPU) you might be able to go with an i3 6100.
 
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burg412

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Thanks for the tip on CPU BOSS. I have an i3 6100 now and it's not that effective for what I do.
 
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CPUBoss is terrible because its scoring places a big weight on price - yet it mainly defaults to using Intel's original MSRP rather current market prices. If you ignore the overall score CPUBoss is not so bad if you are looking at limited generic theoretical info.

Unfortunately no CPU rating board will give you real world performance. Professional reviewers say that differences in mainstream motherboard (MOBO) designs and components typically give up to 12% variation in performance for the same CPU and memory sticks. Difference in compatible memory sticks can easily push that to 20% even after optimization of settings. So usually you should consider upgrading MOBO with CPU... unless you intentionally used older cheaper CPUs on a new MOBO for budget reasons and the upgrade CPU planned to match the MOBO.

Unfortunately socket compatible upgrades do not always work out if the MOBO is is not 6+ months younger than the release date of the CPU. In that case the old motherboard MAY have severe choke points which almost limit new CPUs to performance of CPUs which were available at the design date of the MOBO. Usually its not quite that bad.

Bottomline:
review your motherboard first and usually the reviewer will also give the best CPU to use with it. They may even give hints about the best memory sticks.
 
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Thomas_180

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If you are thinking resale value of CPU then you almost always want to buy easily overclocked CPU models (currently K postifxed chips for Intel) - even if you don't plan to overclock yourself. Unless dirt cheap greatly outweighs performance - there is almost no reason to depart from easily overclocked CPUs. Such chips more easily resold later at a good fractrion of the price you paid (even already used). Some overclocking newbie always needs a system to practice on.

Even more important nowadays most motherboard reviews will be based on overclockable CPUs (even when no overclocking is being done). So the most accurate info on real world performance will be based on popular overclock CPU paired with various motherboards and memory sticks. This will be even more true as the CPU ages, as motherboards which are not sold out will almost exclusively be reviewed versus the overclocked chip or the ultra cheap CPUs (late boards are often popular as low end business machine guts).
 
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