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X58 Hex (Westmere i7-980) vs X99 Hex (Haswell -5820k)

Caracus2k

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Ok so recently changed over my main rig from Hex X58 -> Hex X99. Fair few people sitting on Hex core processors on X58 these days so thought I would post some benchmarks.

X58
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i7980 w/Koolance 350 CPu cooler DCC 18w pump and triple fan 360mm radiator with G/Typhoon fans
Asus P6TWS Revo board (with PLX chips for more PCI-E Lanes), Asus S3U6 card for SATA3 and USB3 ports
12gb 1600mhz Kingston memory - : 9-9-9-27 2N
4gb Palit 980 Super Jet Stream (@ stock)
Asus Xonar Xense sound card
Windows 8.1 run from a OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 Max IOPS PCI-Express SSD
Asus ROG Swift 2560x1440

X99
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i75820k w/EK EVO Supremacy Red cooler DCC 18w pump and triple fan 360mm radiator with G/Typhoon fans
Asus X99-E WS board (with PLX chips for more PCI-E Lanes)
16gb 3000mhz Corsair memory - : 15-17-17-35
Sli 4gb Palit 980 Super Jet Stream (@ stock)
Creative X7 external USB sound card
Windows 8.1 run from a OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 Max IOPS PCI-Express SSD
Asus ROG Swift 2560x1440
 
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980 stock (@3.3Ghz) - RESULTS

Memory @ full rated speed

Only single card as no space left for Sli with other cards in motherboard with a 2.5 high cooler on graphics card (Palit S/Jetstream)


Idle_Screen_2560_980-STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr


Cinebench - Score 737
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CinebenchOPENGL_980_STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr

Passmark - Score 3532.3
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Passmark_2560_980_STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr

Heaven - Score 1405, Max FPS 109.6, Min FPS 20.1, Average FPS 55.8, 2560x1440 2xAA, Tessellation - normal
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Heaven_2560_980_STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr
 
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980 OVERCLOCKED (@4.4Ghz) - RESULTS

Memory @ full rated speed

Only single card as no space left for Sli with other cards in motherboard with a 2.5 high cooler on graphics card (Palit S/Jetstream)


Idle_Screen_2560_980-OC by Caracus2k, on Flickr


Cinebench - Score 935 (26.8% faster than stock)
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Cinebench_980_OC by Caracus2k, on Flickr



Passmark - Score 4565.2
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Passmark_2560_980_OC by Caracus2k, on Flickr

Heaven - Score 1378, Max FPS 104.2, Min FPS 27, Average FPS 54.7, 2560x1440 2xAA, Tessellation - normal
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- better minimum FPS but lower scores elsewhere than stock (but not by much - probably expected variance between different tests?)

Heaven_2560_980_OC by Caracus2k, on Flickr
 
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5820K STOCK (@3.3Ghz) - RESULTS

Memory @ 2133 (Due to Haswell's on board memory controller I could not run my memory at its full XMP settings without playing with the CPU settings/ voltages etc - unlike Westemere/X58)


Idle_Screen_2560_5820K-STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr


Cinebench - Score 965 - beats i7 980 overclocked
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CinebenchOPENGL_5820k_STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr


Passmark - Score 4208.6
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Passmark_2560_5820k_STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr


Heaven - Score 1616, Max FPS 145.4, Min FPS 25, Average FPS 64.2, 2560x1440 2xAA, Tessellation - Normal
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- (note: screenshot shows 2 980's but as you can see by temps and memory clocks the second is disabled for SLI)

For reference with SLI enabled Score 2685, Max FPS 153, Min FPS 28.7 Average FPS 106.6

- better max FPS and average FPS than 980OC, better Min FPS that 980 Stock


Heaven_2560_5820k_STOCK by Caracus2k, on Flickr
 
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Cheers for the interesting thread.

One thing I would say is your screen shots are next to useless as I can't read them!

I'm in the transition phase X58 -X99. . .
 
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Much debated and should be interesting, believe the 980 hex is the same as the 50 quid Xeon's currently doing the rounds?

Can you crop the images so we can read them?
 
Without looking at the graphs, X99 6-core should be ~50% faster than a X58 6-core when both are at maximum overclock. At the same clock it'll be more like 25%.
 
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Much debated and should be interesting, believe the 980 hex is the same as the 50 quid Xeon's currently doing the rounds?

Can you crop the images so we can read them?
Click to expand...

They are pretty much the same. Most people have to buy one of the more expensive Xeon's (circa £80 - £100 second hand) to get much over 4.2ghz fairly reliably overclocked I believe though.
 
added 5820k stock results

- a fairly consistent bump over and above the 980 even when the 980 is overclocked in most of the tests used....

5820 overclock and SLI results to follow when I have figured out the finer points of Haswell-E overclocking!
 
Heaven is completely GPU bound as it should be, it's a GPU test.

TBH? I couldn't really care one iota about benchmarks. Show me the games ! I ran loads of benchmarks on my 3970x and happily slaughtered my FX 8300 yet when it came back to what I actually do there was hardly any discernible difference.
 
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