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excellent so yesterday this tiny little box arrived and it was the new Intel Core i7 69 50 X there ten core twenty thread newest and fastest consumer grade CPU that they have ever produced it is part of the Broadwell II family it's built on the 14 nanometer lithography and there are actually four new CPUs in this family but I'm going to be concentrating on the 69 50 X today more on the other CPUs in just a little bit speaking of everything else I was delivered the CPU with probably about 48 hours between when I got it and when I'm leaving for Computex so I spent a lot of time last night running some benchmarks and to speed things up I'm going to jump right into the benchmarks then we'll talk about some more of the features and technology okay one spec you should keep in mind as we look at benchmarks is the price the bulk price is one thousand seven hundred and twenty three dollars which means it's probably going to retail for more than that 1750 to 1807 in mind but I'm going to be comparing this to the 59 60 X and the only 59 60 X that I have is back in the arctic panther back there now I wanted to run it at stock speed to give a more apples to apples comparison but our key Panther just wouldn't let me under clock it it's it's it wouldn't let me I tried so as a result you'll be seen the six 950 X at stock you also be seen the 69 50 X overclocked to 4.3 gigahertz across all 10 cores that's about a 43% overclock I did try for 4.5 like the Arctic Panther is but it just wouldn't hold it even 4.4 was a bit unstable so I stuck with 4.3 and to proceed with the benchmarking I set up a mini little testbed here now if you thinking of a video I posted just a few days ago that where I built a brand new test bed with the next 99 motherboard you're like Paul why didn't you use that well the weird thing about when I film this and when I film that is I haven't done that yet you've seen that but I haven't done it it's weird anyway time time is timey wimey but this is a test that I'm using for these specific tests and I'll be using that test bed that I built when I get back from Computex but this is based on the X 99 a gaming Pro carbon motherboard from MSI very similar to the godlike but much less expensive thank God it's also got the Plextor m6e SSD in there just to give us some high speed fast storage g.skill trident z their new series of memory i have the black and white version here too in different colors this is actually the 3200 speed rated memory kit although I was running it at 2666 to match the speed of the arctic panther at least when it was overclocked when I was running stock it was just running at 2133 I have the enter max II TST 40 CPU cooler in black with the sides gentle typhoon fan on top and then of course I have power supply in my EVGA supernova 750g to 80 plus gold rated power supply to get everything power now I'm not really doing much on the GPU side here but I did pop in the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 just so it could be there and look pretty after thinking about this platform x99 LGA 2011 - 3 socket you probably going to do some heavy lifting with it so I'm going to start off with some video benchmarks specifically rendering video in Adobe Premiere Creative Cloud this is rendering out 4k footage in h.264 format and I was actually pretty surprised at arctic panther with its overclock managed to beat the 69 50x at its stock frequency now granted this a pretty wide variance there because the 69 50 X when it's running on all cores it can't even get to its turbo boost 3.5 that's only if it's running on a single core so I was running at 3 gigahertz most of the time so that shows where the Arctic Panther had the advantage when overclocked though the 69 50 X really started to tear through the render got the timed out at 2 minutes and 47 seconds a 19% improvement over the stock frequency next up is handbrake I was using this to transcode or take 4k video and render it down to 1080 format so you can take something and put it on a cell phone for example and here again we saw the Arctic Panther beat out the 69 50 X when it was running at stock speed in fact 16 m50x performance here was a little bit disappointing but again I'm comparing it to a very heavily overclocked 59 60 X again when overclocked the 69 50 X really started to show its strength and performance and it got that render time cut more than in half down to 3 minutes and 6 seconds and 53 percent improvements and of course handily meeting Arctic Panther at that point next up is Cinebench this is more of a synthetic benchmark but I ran this in both it's multi-threaded mode as well as single threaded mode in multi-threaded mode with all 10 cores and 20 threads going the 6950 x beat arctic panther even at the stock frequency just running at 3 gigahertz and when it was overclocked Wow very nice it's improvement indeed jumped up to 21 97 on the score a 24% improvement and then switched over the single thread this was run very quickly but I wanted to try to get a bit of a direct performance single thread to single thread and broad while he definitely provides some single threaded performance improvements we had a ten point six improvement going from the standard clock to the overclock on the 69 50 X and if you compare the 59 60 X on our Panther overclocked to the 69 50 X overclocked it's a 31% improvement and that's not even running at the same frequency after that we tried out blender this is a flying squirrel 3d rendering job that it runs through fairly quickly only takes about 20 to 25 seconds and again here we saw the same story the 6950 exit stock can't beat the overclocked 59 60 X but again when overclocked we saw a very nice performance improvement jump down beneath the 20-second mark and I gave 21 percent improvement over the stock frequency not only here's a side-by-side comparison of the i-264 cache and memory suite we saw a pretty nice performance improvement when it comes to memory write speeds as well as a drop in latency other than that those scores are pretty much the same so hope you guys enjoyed those benchmarks I have a couple more stats to share as far as power draw goes this imp title get up here was drawing just shy of 200 watts when it was at stock frequency when I overclocked though it jumped up the power drop pretty significantly it went up to about 330 to 340 so it was a good 130 hundred 40 watt additional power drop again talking about peak power draw overall as far as temperatures go though again at stock really really low temperatures I mean I don't know if that was our Animax cooler here or just the fact that the six and m50x Broadwell EES pretty efficient but only peaked at about 47 degrees Celsius which isn't too bad at all again when overclocked that's going to draw more power create more heat so it got all the way up to about 80 L didn't get too much beyond that when I did attempt the 4.4 gigahertz overclock it was actually drawing about 1.45 volts which is more than you'd want on the CPU so it did get well above 90 there I think I actually hit TDP max but fortunately dialing that back a little bit and running at about 1.3 9 volts is what I was doing for the 4.3 gigahertz overclock was pretty stable and I didn't have too many issues a few more stats for the 69 50 X you have 25 megabytes of shared cache and it is very fast shared cache if you checked out the ID 64 benchmarks it also has 140 watt TDP so it's sticking with the same TDP as the 59 60 X and a nice addition for the broad well a family is it gives you native Thunderbolt 3 support that's 40 gigabytes per second bi-directional bandwidth so for those of you external storage hogs Thunderbolt 3 is the way to go now let's take a look at some of the specs and details for all of the CPUs and the new Broadwell II launch lineup we have of course the 69 50 exit at the top also the 69 hundred K which is kind of taken the place as a 59 60 X more so since it's a little 8 core 16 thread and costs around a thousand or eleven hundred dollars the 68 50 K is going to be your six quartz well thread still has all 40 PCI Express Lanes and that's going to be kind of your 59 30 K replacement and then finally we also have the 6800 K for the folks who are just trying to get onto this platform you are cut down to 28 PCIe lanes again which is very similar to the 5820k that we saw from last generation base clocks are only low 3 gigahertz range and boosts clocks will go up to 3.5 on the 69 50 X 3.7 on the 69 hundred K and by remind those are single core overclocked numbers so if you really want the maximum performance out of these you got to take advantage of the fact that they are unlocked use your overclocking techniques to get all of the cores running at higher frequencies and especially on multi-threaded applications you'll see a big performance improvement as for cash you get 25 megabytes on the 6 950 X 20 on the 69 hundred K 15 on the 68 50k and also 15 on the 6800 K one last thing here is that the ddr4 standard has been bumped up a little bit so the standard for these CPUs I don't like my system just went to sleep here that's okay I'll wake it back up later the standard for these CPUs though is ddr4 2400 of course they can still run at 2133 just fine but that is you know nice little bump finally the pricing and this is probably the biggest sticking point for most people again that 69 hundred K really taking the place of the the 59 60 X when it comes to the price layout and really gonna have to pay a significant premium if you want that ten core CPU one thousand seven hundred and twenty three dollars and that's if you buy a thousand of them if you're buying them individually my guess is 1750 to $1,800 each for the 69 PDX a couple more features to round things out we have an AV X ratio offset that allows the CPU to run at a slightly under clock frequency if it's detects it's running an AV x AV X instruction sets since they can be finicky they've also added VCC you voltage control for you higher-end overclockers out there and finally a pretty exciting feature called turbo boost max 3.0 not Turbo Boost 2.0 still works and turbo boost frequencies I've been talking about still apply to that turbo boost max 3.0 is basically specific to a single thread at CPU overclocking so they want to give the Broadwell a family of processors more bang for the buck I suppose especially when you're talking about non multi-threaded applications so it will actually detect which core and the CPU can run the fastest and it can assign that core specifically to run a single application and there's a little application you can go to set it up and do everything again I have is limited on time so I didn't get to do too much with that but it does exist and I'm sure there's going to be a lot of pretty cool tests with that coming out very soon let's do a bit of a conclusion here the pros about the 6950 Xserve hopefully obviously it's insanely fast it's very very fast it's without a doubt the fastest CPU at the consumer level that intel has ever given us access to it's also pretty power efficient from what I can tell I liked the low temperatures when it was running at stock speed specifically also doesn't seem to be too bad of an overclock or granted I'm using very limited sample size since they only have the single CPU but 4.3 gigahertz across all 10 cores that's pretty impressive also quickly mention that turbo boost max 3.0 technology since it just kind of seems to make sense especially for a massive multi-core CPU kind of like this again I didn't get to test that directly but assuming it works like they're saying it does seem like a pretty cool feature as far as cons go well it's really really expensive like out of the ballpark of most people $1,000 is out of the range for most people building a system but there are going to be enthusiasts and people who have to have the best of the best and people who just have a little bit more money in their pocket who are going to be able to buy this processor but for a lot of people it's just going to be watching videos like this that gives you a little bit of a taste of the performance so I hope I have provided you guys with a little bit of that today the only other con I could think I was like I don't know maybe there could have been some other fancy amazing technology I mean the turbo boost max 3.0 is kind of cool but I know if it suddenly had more PCIe lanes or something like that that might have been cool but maybe that's hard to implement since they're still using the same x99 chipset the same LGA 2011 - 3 socket so you do have the backwards compatibility with existing motherboards as long as you get a BIOS update for them or the entire range of new motherboards as you may have noticed a lot of motherboard manufacturers are coming out with new motherboards right now but that is all for this video guys I really hope you have enjoyed it I'm Paul with Paul's hardware and hit the thumbs up button if you liked this video leave me a comment down in the comment section below and let me know what you think of this processor let me know if you're going to buy one if any of you guys like yes I don't care what cost get one right when it comes out thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time