Benchmarks
wPrime 1024M Multi Core
A simple yet effective benchmark for testing multiple cores on a processor. In this arithmetic heavy benchmark, the processor is to find every prime number within 32 million and 1 billion digits. The difference between the base clock and the overclock is quite massive where an overclocked 5960X performs nearly 30% faster with all 8 cores at running at 4.5Ghz.
SiSoft Sandra (Cryptography)
SiSoft Sandra is a benchmarking suite capable of testing almost every part of a system, cryptography was tested due to how well the results it can be compared to other CPUs. Cryptography is used when mining digital currencies and it is most efficient when using a graphics processors that excels at parallel processing. Due to the 5960X being an 8 core processor we believed that it would be among the top scoring CPU when using all cores and we were not wrong.
Super Pi 1M-32M
In this benchmark, single core processing power is tested to the max. A single core is instructed to find every digit of pi for 32M digits for a set number of time. It is easy to see the difference in performance a single overclocked core attains, it was able to complete the benchmark 25% faster.
PC Mark 8 – Creative Studio
In this benchmark I wanted to show where extreme level processor with multiple cores really shine, PC Mark 8 tests multiple production tasks such as video editing, video encoding, photo editing, and even web browsing. The results speak for themselves, the i7-5960X is any developers dream and a complete monster when all cores can be utilized to complete real world tasks.
Cinebench Single-Core and Multi-Core
Cinebench is an outstanding benchmark that takes a system’s processing power to the limit to render a photo-realistic 3D image. The score earned is achieved by how fast the system completes the benchmark, at 4.5 Ghz the i7-5960X was able to score in the top 40 of all benchmarked systems, pushing to 4.7 with a close eye om temperatures a score in the top 10 was achieved, a rather impressive feat for a consumer processor.
3D Mark 11
A 3D graphics oriented benchmark that is meant to test graphical prowess of a system, CPU speed does play a factor in these synthetic benchmarks but not as heavily as the video card. I’d like to note that for these tests the R9 290 was at stock clocks of 947/1250, a slight but noticeable increase in speed is noted with the CPU overclock which was due to the heavy use of physics applications and rendering used during some of the tests.
Win-Zip
WinZip, a real world every day application where better performance is measured by how little time the process took. A 20% increase in performance can be seen just with the overclock, the productivity advantage of an 8-core processor can be seen in simple compression tests.
Shadow of Mordor
One of the couple of games that take advantage of multi-core processors and scales well with them but as mentioned before, the difference in performance between the 5960X and other mainstream processors is not exactly phenomenal when it comes to gaming. Getting out of the 3Ghz clock and into speeds that a gamer would appreciate we see the boost in performance.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
A recent offering by Bioware brings great multi-core scaling that evenly utilized all 8 cores of the 5960X but the impressive coding is hindered by the fact that none of the cores were pushed to 100% even when utilizing DirectX 11 API instead of AMD’s Mantle. Nevertheless, a small boost in performance is noted and the 5960X should provide a sizable advantage in this game when compared to other processors.
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