Intel i7 5960X Review with ASUS X99 Deluxe

Calculation

We would imagine that having two extra cores on hand will be particularly beneficial in calculation heavy benchmarks, and so it proves. A stock i7-5960X is already 1.2 and 25 seconds faster than a near 5GHz i7-4690X, but once we overclock this latest Haswell E CPU then the benefits become so large it’s hard to quantify them. Who would ever have imagined that on standard cooling with an off-the-shelf CPU you can get a wPrime95 1024M result of under 100 seconds?

If wPrime95 doesn’t float your boat then the x264 Benchmark is equally impressive. Despite giving up 500MHz in clock speed for its 2 extra cores the overclocked i7-5960X gets 50% faster encoding than the already mighty i7-4960X.

wPrime95

x264 Benchmark v5