Gaming and Real World Application Benchmarks
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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