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Hi David,
I am in the process of rebuilding a box I built about 2 years ago around an i7 5960X that I never used because of the ambient temperature in the room in which I needed to use it. Here is the current configuration:
i7 5960x
ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard
EVGA GTX-1080 Ti video card (Founders Edition)
64GB G,Skill DDR4-2800 RAM
1TB Samsung EVO 849 500GB PCIe SSD (I've got a Samsung PRO 850 1TB M.2 NVMe card in it, but the OS is still on the EVO, until I put Win 10 Pro on it UEFI)
Win 7 Pro
Overclock to 4.399 GHz just by increasing the individual core multipliers to 44. Everything else set to AUTO. (CPUz shows 4.399 GHz with Burnintest at 100%)
On paper, this computer should be a screamer but the PassMark score is only 4287.5
What I found particularly perplexing was comparing this to the Passmark score of a Shuttle XPC running an i7 6700K at the non-overclockable turbo rate of 4.0GHz, Intel CPU graphics and 16GB G.Skill DDR4-2400 RAM and a Samsung EVO-840 500GB SSD, which was 4079. Also, comparing it to a i7 6700K computer I built that's running at 4.4GHz. ASUS GTX-780 Ti graphics, 16GB G.Skill DDR4-2666 RAM and a Samsung EVO-840 500GB SSD, which actually beat the 8-core Passmark with a score of 4864. Both the 670-0K machines are running Win 7 Pro.
Clearly, something is amiss here. GPUz confirms that both the GTX graphics cards are running optimally, and the Passmark combined GPU score for the 1080 Ti card is almost 30% greater that of the score for the machine in the comparison list that is running the 6-core processor and a GTX-980 (X99-UD4-CF). Also, the CPUmark combined Passmark score was about 40% higher than the comparison machine. Even the EVO disk beat the 6-core machine by over 24% in the comparison score. The 6-core machine only beat my 8-core in one category, 2D graphics, and it was only by a few percent. What I don't understand is why the combined Passmark Score for the X99-UD4-CF machine was over 700 points higher. Also, in your High-End processor graph, the (I presume stock) i7 5960x processor hasd a Passmark score of over 11,000.
Any thoughts?
John
I am in the process of rebuilding a box I built about 2 years ago around an i7 5960X that I never used because of the ambient temperature in the room in which I needed to use it. Here is the current configuration:
i7 5960x
ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard
EVGA GTX-1080 Ti video card (Founders Edition)
64GB G,Skill DDR4-2800 RAM
1TB Samsung EVO 849 500GB PCIe SSD (I've got a Samsung PRO 850 1TB M.2 NVMe card in it, but the OS is still on the EVO, until I put Win 10 Pro on it UEFI)
Win 7 Pro
Overclock to 4.399 GHz just by increasing the individual core multipliers to 44. Everything else set to AUTO. (CPUz shows 4.399 GHz with Burnintest at 100%)
On paper, this computer should be a screamer but the PassMark score is only 4287.5
What I found particularly perplexing was comparing this to the Passmark score of a Shuttle XPC running an i7 6700K at the non-overclockable turbo rate of 4.0GHz, Intel CPU graphics and 16GB G.Skill DDR4-2400 RAM and a Samsung EVO-840 500GB SSD, which was 4079. Also, comparing it to a i7 6700K computer I built that's running at 4.4GHz. ASUS GTX-780 Ti graphics, 16GB G.Skill DDR4-2666 RAM and a Samsung EVO-840 500GB SSD, which actually beat the 8-core Passmark with a score of 4864. Both the 670-0K machines are running Win 7 Pro.
Clearly, something is amiss here. GPUz confirms that both the GTX graphics cards are running optimally, and the Passmark combined GPU score for the 1080 Ti card is almost 30% greater that of the score for the machine in the comparison list that is running the 6-core processor and a GTX-980 (X99-UD4-CF). Also, the CPUmark combined Passmark score was about 40% higher than the comparison machine. Even the EVO disk beat the 6-core machine by over 24% in the comparison score. The 6-core machine only beat my 8-core in one category, 2D graphics, and it was only by a few percent. What I don't understand is why the combined Passmark Score for the X99-UD4-CF machine was over 700 points higher. Also, in your High-End processor graph, the (I presume stock) i7 5960x processor hasd a Passmark score of over 11,000.
Any thoughts?
John
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