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two words that do not belong in the same sentence gaming and xiana there are very very few exceptions see this video right here for one of those I gamed on a 12:30 v5 but only because I can base clock overclock if the one for that the lower frequency of the Xeon processor just really wouldn't have competed with an overclockable I five or an overclockable i7 but I have a ten core Xeon here now that's ten cores that can be utilized in games although most games won't take advantage of all ten because they're not optimized for all ten typically around three or four is your sweet spot but the core clock is so low on this chip that it just eats into my framerate you're going to see that in this video now of course we're going to need something with which to compare the Xeon as a sort of baseline and in my last video I benchmarked the sixty nine hundred K against the 6700 case so I'm not going to bother including both of those chips because you have an idea kind of where those stand with each other in regards to just CPU intensive tasks in general but I'm going to pit my 5820k that's the CPU that's currently in Heisenberg against this ten core giant and see how much better or worse that six core 12th each processor does when overclock to four point five bigger it's compared to this ten core processor with a significantly lower clock speed let's take a quick stab at the specifications for our test bench this is my personal race when sporting two gtx 1070 from EVGA these are not super clocked ER for the win so I had to manually overclock them to 1800 megahertz they don't get much harder than about 75 C at least the top cord doesn't get much harder than 75 C under full load I'm also sporting 32 gigabytes of Trident z ddr4 from g.skill these come in a beautiful white and silver array can get these configured yourself beautiful memory modules the motherboard I'm using it's an ex 99 Taichi from as rock and the CPU cooler with which I use to cool both of these CPUs even though the Xeon I mean I was severe overkill for the Xeon is an ex 62 from NZXT this is a Kraken a io it's not released yet but you can find its specifications in this video's description along with an update when it is released of where you can buy it one last thing we can overclock the i7 I can't imagine why you would purchase a 5820k and not overclock it so ours is overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz at 1.3 volts it doesn't get much hotter than about 70 72 degrees Celsius under so tonight is 64 after about 30 minutes and for the xeon e5 2630 v4 well i tried to base clock it as much as I could and I got a whopping 50 megahertz of additional boost out of it yeah that was as far as I could go with that so at least I need Star Trek right and also because we're running a Xeon in that rig with that configuration I could only keep the ddr4 clock to 2133 megahertz not 3200 + which the 5820k supports even though the board supports it the CPU itself won't allow the memory to run that fast we're also not using ECC memory with the Xeon because that really wouldn't change any gaming result and with that finally the moment you've all been waiting for here are the gaming benchmarks first up on our list is dying light at 1440p and max settings our i7 5820k definitely won this round 130 FPS on the average and 91 in the minimum that's compared to 71 on the minimum for the easy on 26:30 v4 it's a 20 FPS delta and about the same as well for the average framerate Dynalite is also a very optimized game as i've proven in my GP over CP bottlenecking video and although the Xeon definitely has lower single core performance thanks to its much lower clock speed it does a decent job at kind of staying in the game dying light definitely doesn't take advantage of all 10 of the Zeon's course up next is city skylines in this game for some reason only utilizes about three cores the fourth core work and of lingers in and out but every core after that pretty much stays at around 5 to 10 percent CPU usage which reduced the Zeon's advantage to nil so we have 44 FPS on the average for the i7 and 39 for the Xeon not a big delta but for a game like this it is definitely CPU bound I do expect higher frame rates from both of these chips being that this computer cost about twenty-three hundred US dollars cities also doesn't take advantage of SLI verified here while GP ones usage was around 70 to 80 percent consistently the second GPU really wasn't being used at all so that also cut into a frame rate quite a bit third up GTA 5 another game that I regard is highly optimised and in 1440p we saw about a hundred FPS on average for the i7 but a mere 65 for the Xeon I was actually playing online with some friends yesterday and notice that this yawns frame rate was significantly lower than the i7 it actually caused me to turn off my computer and swap from the Seon back to the i7 for the sake of gaining those additional 40 or so frames now witcher 3 is a bit different in that it's GPU bound even though we have two gtx 1070 s in our rig so it really didn't matter which cpu we were using in this case 78 for the average on the i7 and 75 FPS for the xeon this GP bottleneck was identified by both graphics cards being utilized at near 100% during the entire benchmarking run while our CPU usage remained well under 50% for a significant amount of gaming time total war war hammers an example of a DirectX 12 title in 1440p where the i7 pulled ahead by about 35 FPS on average that is thanks to the i7 significantly higher clock speed being the Total War only utilizes to the max a single CPU core you heard that correctly folks total war stressing a single CPU core and the Xeon fell far behind because his clock speed is 1.5 gigahertz lower than the i7 above it last up is battlefield one many of you told me to benchmark in conquest mode because that was so much more CPU intensive than Team Deathmatch I honestly didn't see much of a difference at all between these two CPUs in that regard even the i7 5820k pulled out a 102 framerate average and the Xeon not far behind 96 frames per second also keep in mind here that our minimums were literally within the margin of error so what we've learned from these benchmarks is that core account really doesn't mean anything without the frequency to back it up our i7 only had six cores it's still a lot of cores that's much more than the 6700 K and that processor would give this one a run for its money but even though we only had six cores compared to the 10 on the Xeon hyper-threading on both processors it still managed to outperform the Xeon every single scenario thanks to its significantly higher clock speed it might seem strange to some of you that a10 core $700 CPU was annihilated by a $350 hexa core processor but that's how most games work these days developers don't have the incentive to optimize games for more than 4 cores because most consumers only have 4 cores at their disposal I like to use the console analogy for this example picture a PlayStation 4 it's sporting an APU Jaguar cores eight of them although six or seven of them depending on whether or not you unlock that seventh core six or seven are dedicated to specifically graphics and one course dedicated to running the media interface things of that sort but that configuration for a PC would be severely underpowered right you'd be lucky to run some games in 720p at 60fps 1080p forget it most of the time you're not even going to have an enjoyable experience because you can have to drop so many settings too low the games going to look like trash but because games are so well optimized for that specific platform for the PlayStation 4 in general they can boost the frame rate and resolution because developers know exactly what they're building and designing the game for which means they can take advantage of the hardware to the max whereas PC game developers pretty much have to keep an open mind and code very generally around their api's because not every 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