8086k vs 7820x overall performance

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Phaaze88

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Came back home from work today to find a small cardboard box with no discernible sender sitting on the counter. Opened it to find an 8086k sitting inside!

Now, which one is the overall better cpu(I know for just gaming, it's the 8086k, and for productivity, the 7820x)? The cpus list on the site only really reflects gaming performance?
 
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I could take it off your hands. My luck stat is in the negatives.

Jokes aside, it is a binned chip so it will OC better than a standard 8700K. However performance gains from the 7820X to the 8086K would be minimal in most games.

So it wouldn't make a big difference for you to change to it.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "overall". The 7820x 2 more cores and threads and will beat out a 8086k or 8700k in most tasks besides gaming, especially if you overclock the 7820x. However these skylake x chips seem to perform worse than regular skylake, kaby lake, and coffee lake in most gaming workloads even when at the same clock speed. Not sure why that is. If I had those two sitting in front of me I would probably use the 8086k, though I primarily use my pc for gaming.
 
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Phaaze88

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By overall, I was referring to a best of both worlds scenario.
It's because of the mesh bus, while the others are still using ring, iirc. Something about the latency being higher on those chips because of that - sorry, I only remember bits and pieces about it.

So it sounds like the 7820x will still be my go-to chip...
 
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The difference lies in the interface. The new x299 chips have a new mesh interconnect that in theory is much faster than the older ring bus but for some reason it seems to be the underlying issue that's holding it back in gaming, mainly as said the latency is higher in some scenarios. Of course it is a first generation vs a tried and true design (the ring bus has existed since Nehalem) so future versions and software optimizations might show the real benefits of it.

That and X299, while still marketed towards extreme gamers, is truly meant for high end workstation uses rather than gaming.
 
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I could take it off your hands. My luck stat is in the negatives.

Jokes aside, it is a binned chip so it will OC better than a standard 8700K. However performance gains from the 7820X to the 8086K would be minimal in most games.

So it wouldn't make a big difference for you to change to it.
 
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